We started our road trip on Monday. We travelled for about 8 hours on the first day. It rained pretty much non stop. It was cold and wet and we had to pitch up in the dark at our beach campsite in a place called Seventeen Seventy. Tempers were frayed at this point! In the morning it was still raining but the kids went down to the lovely beach and swam in the sea. Supposedly it was pretty warm but I wasn’t willing to risk it! Later on in the day we made a decision to move to another campsite in Deepwater National Park. It was our first off road experience and we all thought it was pretty cool. Bronte thought it was like something out of jurassic park. The landscape was beautiful and like nothing I have ever seen. We camped in a small bush site in the forest. It was very basic. One compost toilet and a bore hole tap. We managed to cook a pretty good meal. After dinner we walked down to the beach where the kids went swimming again despite it being freezing. The beach was beautiful and we were the only people on it. We managed to catch the most awesome sunset. I thought that you couldn’t top the sunsets in HillHead but this was something else. It felt like the sky, the sand and the sea were melting into each other. It was a surreal experience. The attached pictures show the moment but the pictures just don’t do it justice as I didn’t have a proper camera with me. In the morning we were woken up by the scrub turkeys pecking at our saucepans. Hurrah, the sun is shining. We walk down to the beach again for another swim. The waves are huge. Again we are the only people on the beach. See the attached pictures of the camping area and beach.
hey bron iis that u in the picture if it is ur hair is well long
hannah
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Hi everyone,
Amazing pictures! The colours would be ideal for a watercolour painting. Hope you’ve got some photographs on your camera for me to paint. What was the solitary tree on the beach (sand dunes)? I know exactly what you mean about the merging of the sky,sea and land and it isn’t easy to capture it but you have done better than Mum and I when we had a similar sunset experience in Cephalonia. Well done!
Sounds like tremendous fun there are bound to be good and bad days.
Love pp Nana and Grandad
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Hi kids – Sunday here…just deciding what to do for the day – missing you loads, and I don’t think we are having as exciting a time as you are, tho I have had to start planning my business-trips for the next six months, and I should be off to Greece, Slovenia, and definitely back to Malta in October!
So did you see any of the really dangerous spiders or creatures when you were at the zoo? Safest to see them from behind glass!!! Of course, the spiders are also looking at you saying to themselves, “Thank goodness we’re behind this glass cobber…look at those ugly, dangerous British human children…mate!!!”…why do you think they only bite you, and don’t finish the meal – cos you taste terrible!
Waiting for the next photos – you can make them mum-and-Robbie lite – I’m interested in seeing if you have a beard and moustache yet Spratt, and if the sun has brought on a growth-spurt Snorgey…which reminds me – Jacquie and I are going to meet Auntie Jacqueline and Uncle Bruce, Alex and Liam in the Peak District in a few weeks…and we’re going to Alton Towers!! I think I’m still tall enough to get on all of the rides, even if my hair has gone!…and we are trying to get tickets to see David Tennant, who is in ‘Hamlet’ at Stratford…
Anyway, off to think about considering if I can decide whether to maybe contemplate doing anything in the garden…or maybe not!!
Love you loads, and speak to you soon,
Dad. xxx xxx