What a terrible night's sleep! The drip continued and I kept getting splashed in the face, Katharine virtually lay on top of me like an extra hot hot water bottle and I kept dreaming of us waking up in a muddy lake and bogged! We all woke up about 5am and it was still raining outside so the boys began playing Loot and the rest of us dozed. By 6am, the rain was very light so we began to pack up - both flip out beds were wet where the edges had laid against ...

Woken at 430am with another wet bed. It's now getting beyond a joke, especially when I watched each child pee just before bed! Nick decided he was wide-awake and headed to the laundry while I nodded back off to sleep. By 630am it was time for coffee and then I began to pack up the van while nick did the breakfast marathon. We stopped for another coffee around 9am and nick spotted a pod of dolphins playing in the shallows just across the road. We went o...

Woken in the night with a wet double bed. Moved one twin to the couch while the other slept on in blissful ignorance! Hit the laundry first thing in the morning instead of the beach and needed 2 cappuccinos to get going. After the usual breakfast marathon we headed out to Condingup, about 80kms east of Esperance to Wharton Beach. We spent 10 days here over Christmas in 2011 and to us it is the best beach in WA. Today it was too cold for most of us to swim but...

Woke early this morning to the wind and an overcast day so rolled over and gave Nick a cuddle. Next thing Katharine tapped me on the shoulder and dragged me out for a walk!! We walked the town beach, not the prettiest as it's full of seaweed but lovely to watch the dogs playing and the horses being exercised. We bought Nick the paper on the way home and got back in time to hear the coffee brewing - the best purchase we ever made was the Nespresso Essenza machi...

This morning we decided to all walk the beach together before breakfast as everyone was awake (almost!). We saw 4 dolphins and the manta ray again and the kids found some big shells in the rock pools but protested when they weren't allowed to bring them home. We took photos of them all instead! Nick made breakfast for everyone while I packed up and we were on the road by 940am. We drove straight to Esperance without stopping (although we did get fuel and empt...