Mum & Eamon woke up at 6.45 for their appointment at the hairdresser! They sat out in the open - mum with colour in her hair, and Eamon having a haircut. We spent the morning cleaning up around the van, waiting to hear from Hoppy's about when the car was finished. Thankfully, the car was done by 11am, earlier than expected, so Dad rode the bike up to get it, while Mum, Renee & Eamon packed up the van. Mum took back the hire car, and we were on the ro...

During our trip, we've be doing a lot of shopping at Woolworths (we usually shop at Coles) and they've had a promotion of Australian Animal cards, where for every $20 spent, children get 4 cards. There are 108 to collect, so the kids from all 3 families spent some time comparing and swapping cards, so Renee & Eamon are only missing 6 cards! The Hargreaves family left today for Denham, but we exchanged details and are hoping to catch up with them over the n...

After a very efficient pack up this morning, we were on our way to Carnarvon, and not long into the 234km trip we realised the car wasn't running very well at all, so stopped to check it out. Of course, the band had slipped again, so we limped to Manilya Roadhouse, called the driveshaft mob in Perth, and got their thoughts on the situation. Hopefully, someone in Carnarvon can fix the problem once and for all, so we limped along at about 60km an hour all the wa...

Conditions were quite good for our day out on the water at Coral Bay. We did the Reef Explorer tour on the Coral Breeze catamaran. 14 of us gathered at the office, and were brought by bus down to the wharf and we met Col the skipper, Cheryl the deckhand, and her daughter Summer. There was a huge groper fish under the wharf. We all went aboard, and took off - the wind was quite fickle, so it was a bit tricky for Col to set the sails up for us to glide out to t...

Another windy night, and still windy today, but sunny and warm. The place was jam-packed last night, but by 9am, the place was half empty, with lots of people departing, so we could actually see the place - it's quite big, with a great playground, jumping pillow, tennis court, volleyball court, basketball ring and big pool, so Dad, Renee & Eamon enjoyed a swim after yummy bacon and eggs for breakfast. The shopping arcade's across the road, so we wandered o...