Before the school holidays we heading a whopping 20 mins down the road to Hastings Point to spend 3 days at the caravan park in the van. What a great park! They have a brand new kids water park...oh ok, the adults had fun too! They have an adults only spa with lap pool that we visited when the kids went off to kids club, was nice to have some time out sitting in the spa.
The kids had a great time playing soccer with kids in the park too.
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Monday, April 30, 2012
Friday, April 27, 2012
Fraser March 2012
In March we went back to Fraser for our second visit. During this trip we explored the western side of the island and discovered the most pristine stretch of deserted white sand and crystal clear blue water. We spent the day exploring, lying around in the sun and of course fishing. We chased balls of tuna all over the flat lake like ocean. Tyler caught his first tuna, which then became bait for his first shark. He also caught his first mackeral. We had an awesome day on the most beautiful calm ocean alove with fish!!
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Check out the photos
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Sunday, April 15, 2012
Busted Head trip
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Since returning to Gold Coast
Hi all, have not posted an update for quite a while. Lots has been happening since our trip was unfortunately cut short in Sept 2011. We did not make it all the way around, we made it as far North as Cape Tribulation and the Daintree Rainforest.
Since returning life has been pretty hectic. We eventually moved out of the caravan and got a place to rent within walking distance of the kids school at Elanora. We also started our own cleaning business; Ulysses Total Cleaning, Carpet and Pest. As you can imagine this has taken up a lot of our time and kept us very busy.
We have had a few short trips away. We did a three day boat trip from Gladstone down to Busted Head, camping out onthe deck of the boat, fishing and swimming. Jas got her sea legs pretty quickly and handled the sometimes sloppy seas perfectly, Tyler did not cope quite so well and was dependent on sea sick tablets, meaning that everytime we went to sea fishing he slept through the whole trip. He did however have a good time fishing in the river, catching a cool shovelnose ray and some good sized spangled emperor. A couple of good sized mackeral were also caught and i caught a lovely rainbow coral trout, by hand no less, in the reef shallows at low tide after it tried to escape but wedged itself high and dry in a rock crevice!
In March we did another trip to Fraser Island, this time taking my dad for his first trip over there. It was of course full of adventure. We tried on the second day to tow the boat and trailer up over the sand track to the top of the island but got bogged in some cery soft sand. We spent the next three hours or so trying to did our way out, then tearing branches from trees to lind the track so we could gain some traction to drive back out the way we came. Thanks to Dad's inventive use of a shovel as a ski for the boat we were able to get the boat out and retreat to a camp ground to camp instead. We were disapointed that we didnt make it to the top, but consoled the kids with our usual nightly toad hunt, filling a garbage bag in less then an hour.
We did make it over to the Western side of the island where we had never been before, and it was well worth the drive, White sand, crystal blue calm waters and not a soul in sight. In the river we saw heaps of turtles and took the kids out to sea for a fish chasing mackeral and tuna. Tyler caught his first big tuna, which in turn caught his first big shark, reeling in a cut off line after a decent fight! He successfully caught his first mackeral which was pretty exciting.
On the way back to camp we stopped about 40 mins into the drive back to collect some fire wood and discovered that the boat motor was not on the back of the boat! We turned around and drove back the way we came for about 25 mins before the headlights shone on our motor lying in the middle of the road. thankfully the roads are soft sand and the motor was not damaged. Lucky it didnt fall off at sea! Sadly though when it fell off the fuel hose pulled out and the full had been pumping all through the boat, marinating our lovely tuna and mackeral in petrol :(
Well another adventurous trip anyway!
Since returning life has been pretty hectic. We eventually moved out of the caravan and got a place to rent within walking distance of the kids school at Elanora. We also started our own cleaning business; Ulysses Total Cleaning, Carpet and Pest. As you can imagine this has taken up a lot of our time and kept us very busy.
We have had a few short trips away. We did a three day boat trip from Gladstone down to Busted Head, camping out onthe deck of the boat, fishing and swimming. Jas got her sea legs pretty quickly and handled the sometimes sloppy seas perfectly, Tyler did not cope quite so well and was dependent on sea sick tablets, meaning that everytime we went to sea fishing he slept through the whole trip. He did however have a good time fishing in the river, catching a cool shovelnose ray and some good sized spangled emperor. A couple of good sized mackeral were also caught and i caught a lovely rainbow coral trout, by hand no less, in the reef shallows at low tide after it tried to escape but wedged itself high and dry in a rock crevice!
In March we did another trip to Fraser Island, this time taking my dad for his first trip over there. It was of course full of adventure. We tried on the second day to tow the boat and trailer up over the sand track to the top of the island but got bogged in some cery soft sand. We spent the next three hours or so trying to did our way out, then tearing branches from trees to lind the track so we could gain some traction to drive back out the way we came. Thanks to Dad's inventive use of a shovel as a ski for the boat we were able to get the boat out and retreat to a camp ground to camp instead. We were disapointed that we didnt make it to the top, but consoled the kids with our usual nightly toad hunt, filling a garbage bag in less then an hour.
We did make it over to the Western side of the island where we had never been before, and it was well worth the drive, White sand, crystal blue calm waters and not a soul in sight. In the river we saw heaps of turtles and took the kids out to sea for a fish chasing mackeral and tuna. Tyler caught his first big tuna, which in turn caught his first big shark, reeling in a cut off line after a decent fight! He successfully caught his first mackeral which was pretty exciting.
On the way back to camp we stopped about 40 mins into the drive back to collect some fire wood and discovered that the boat motor was not on the back of the boat! We turned around and drove back the way we came for about 25 mins before the headlights shone on our motor lying in the middle of the road. thankfully the roads are soft sand and the motor was not damaged. Lucky it didnt fall off at sea! Sadly though when it fell off the fuel hose pulled out and the full had been pumping all through the boat, marinating our lovely tuna and mackeral in petrol :(
Well another adventurous trip anyway!
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