Gold Coast

Sunday 7th December – 16th December

We arrived at Kirra Beach today. We are staying at Kirra Beach Tourist Park until the end of January.

Another family that we met earlier on our trip are also staying here for one week.

We have a really nice site here at the caravan park. There are plenty of kids for Jesse and Emily to play with, with a big pool, playground and jumping pillow.

In the last week we have been to Wet’n Wild, Dream World twice and Movie World twice.

We got ourselves an annual pass so we can go as many times as we like. As we have already been five times it has paid for itself.

We went to Movie World first and Jesse was a bit reluctant to go on any of the roller coasters but by the end of the day he was going on them all. We took Emily on the Scooby Doo roller coaster and she was a little scared.

The next day we went to Dream World and Emily decided she now wanted to go on the roller coasters. Emily surprised us as we did not think she would go on any of the larger roller coasters.

The next park we went to was Wet’n Wild and we all had a great time there. The kids loved all the waterslides, and so did we.

On Tuesday we decided to go back to Movie World. Jesse took a friend that he has met in the park. Emily decided she wanted to try Scooby Doo roller coaster again. I think they all went on it about 5 times in row.

As I did not go on the superman ride last time, Jesse made me go on with him, and boy was that fast. Emily was not able to go on the superman ride as she was not tall enough.

Dreamworld
Jesse on wipeout

Big Brother house

David & Jesse on the claw. Emily and I also went on this. I could not believe Emily went on this ride as it goes very high.

Road runner roller coaster. Emily loved this ride

Movie World

Jesse & David on superman

This was the first ride Jesse went on.

Friday 5th December – Sunday 7th

We arrived at Kyogle today. The scenery it is really pretty around Kyolgle and the surrounding areas.

We are staying at David’s sister Andy’s. She is living in a granny flat out the back of a house. We parked our caravan up her driveway. We will be staying here for a few days

Once we arrived here we went straight to Andy’s shop. She spoilt the kids by letting them choose some toys from her shop.

Tonight we went to the bowling club for dinner with Andy.

On Saturday morning Andy had to work until lunchtime. Jesse and Emily went to work with her. They had such fun spending time with their aunty and getting spoilt in the shop. In the afternoon we all went for a drive to Nimbin.

Nimbin is a hippie town with the open buying, selling and consumption of locally grown cannabis on the streets and laneways. You can also be asked if you would like to buy a marijuana cookie. Jesse did not like Nimbin as he said it smelt funny. I wonder why!!

We also went to the Nimbin candle factory. The candles are made using the old age method of dipping each individual wick continuously to create a perfect candle.

We bought ourselves a few candles. If we were not travelling we would of bought ourselves more. The candles were just beautiful.

That night we had a beautiful cook up at Andy’s. Les who lives in the house in front of her granny flat and his friends organized it. They cooked roast pork, lamb, rabbit with some roast potatoes and pumpkins and veggies all in the camp ovens. It was really nice.


Looking at Kyogle from the lookout. It was raining.

Kyogle main street.
In Andrea's shop

Nimbin

Nimbin

Nimbin Candle factory

Emily with Andy's dog.
Cooking our dinner

Forbes / Glen Innes

Wednesday 3rd December

We left Mildura this morning.

Today we drove 600kms to reach Forbes. We are staying here overnight.

We are staying at Apex River Tourist Park.

Thursday 4th December

Today we drove 750 kms to reach Glen Innes. We arrived late afternoon and are just staying here overnight.

Sunday 30th November - Tuseday 2nd December

Well after months away we arrived back in Victoria today. We are staying at Mildura at the All Seasons Holiday Park.
It has an arcarde game here which is for free. Kids and David have been playing.

The weather here in Mildura has been lovely.

Victoria welcome sign except someone has written graffiti all over it
Free arcade game in caravan park
Along the Murray River

Wednesday 26th – Thursday 27th November

We left Glenelg today and have arrived at Victor Harbor.

Victor Harbor is in the Fleurieu Peninsula

We are staying at Victor Harbor Beachfront Holiday Park.

On Thursday we went for a drive to Goolwa which is a historic river port on the Murray River near the Murray Mouth and it is joined by a bridge to Hindmarsh Island.

We went for a drive to the Murray Mouth.

It was not a very nice day today, it rained most of the day.

We arrived at Berri on Thursday. We are staying at Berri Riverside Caravan Park.

We went to the Berri factory to buy some Berri fruit juice.

The weather still has not been very nice so we just went for a drive around Berri.

The Murray Mouth




Jesse climbing a tree along the Murray River in Berri

Murray River in Berri

Berri