Year off around Australia

Find our way to this lovely spot. There are other caraveners here already, but plenty of space - so doesn't feel crowded. We arrive and meet Brett, property owner/host, he's lovely and welcoming - telling us we can park up the caravan wherever we like in the camping area. After paying Brett for 3 nights stay, $20 per night, we select our spot - total agreement!!
Get ourselves settled and ute unhitched. Meet Margaret, another camper who is walking by with her Cavalier spaniel Evie - taking her for a walk. Enjoy a nice chat, before they head back to their spot.
Now relax before Roger cooks our tea. Steak and boiled vegetables, followed by more rumballs. Roger then has his shower, I do the dishes. Now to relax, reading until bed.
30/12/24 Monday. Roger gets up nice and early and I follow just after 6am. We have a leisurely breakfast and get ready to go for a day trip to Collie and surrounds. Roger packs some sandwiches - cheese & Vegemite, and peanut butter - with some snacks, apples and rumballs. We leave before 8.30am.
Return around 4pm. Relax outside our caravan, enjoying watching the birdlike on the nearby water - dam/Lagoon. I get a call from Raels - we have a lovely catch up chat. Tea tonight - pizzas Roger cooking in the Baby Q. We've bought 2 pizza bases and topping one with chicken and the other with salami, and the usual other stuff we love to add. Very full after this! Haven't created many dishes tonight, so we decide we'll leave them and do them with the breakie ones in the morning. Roger has his shower, relaxing listening to all the different frog calls! Won't be long until bed tonight.
31/12/24 Tuesday New Year's Eve. I wake up and go for a run - leave just after 6am and get back around 7.15am. Good paths and lovely to go along beside the water - I turned around at Australind boat ramp. Plenty of people out crabbing this morning, and I'm certainly not the only one out getting some exercise around here. Roger has had his breakfast, so while my porridge cooking on the gas stove I have my shower. Roger gets a phonecall from Ewin McKenry - just to say g'day, have a catch up and pass on his best wishes for New Year etc. So nice.
I get dressed into my bathers, as it's going to be another warm day. After my breakfast, we get the dishes done and Roger packs provisions for a picnic lunch - we'll get some fresh bread rolls in Bunbury. We leave around 9.30am to spend a day out looking about some of Bunbury's offerings.
We get back to our camp just after 4pm. It's still warm so we just enjoy sitting outside in the shade of our awning - catching a nice breeze. Margaret calls in with Evie after their evening walk, nice chat and find that like us, her and her husband are having a quiet night - not going out for New Years Eve to see the New Year in. We agree, we'll watch ABCs telecast of Sydney's fireworks - then be ready for bed. After Margaret has gone (there's only 3 caravans on site here tonight) Roger cooks up our tea of chops and boiled vegetables. Our dessert tonight is a real 'sweet tooth' treat from Taffy's - marshmallow and caramel choc coated bars. I do the dishes, Rog has his shower - and we do watch Sydney's televised NYE fireworks. Now Roger's in bed and I'm writing this up before I go to bed as well. Thinking of family and friends - wishing us all a Happy New Year 2025.
1/01/25 Wednesday We get up around 6am, I decide to go for a walk, I take the path beside the Estaury and go the other way (right). When I get back Roger has us sorted ready to go, so I have a shower while my porridge cooks, then do my bit to get us ready to go too. We're in no rush to leave - as Roger has to return the gadget he got from JB Hi Fi Bunbury yesterday (it's not 12V compatible) and they're not open until 11am today (we think lucky they are for us on New Years Day!). We leave this camp after 8am and head to Australind boat ramp to fill our caravan water tanks. Then we go down the road (on our way to Bunbury) to a RV dump point for our 'housekeeping'.
Now into Bunbury to the shopping area that has JB HiFi - carefully find a park with our caravan. Still have over an hour until the shop is open, so we decide to fill in time looking in the shops that are already open nearby. Bunnings and The Reject Shop. Purchases made in the 1st, none in the 2nd.
Once JB Hi Fi open, Roger exchanges for the correct gadget (costs more naturally!), then we get on the move again - off to Busselton.Baca selengkapnya