Camping at Easter

Through our friends Will and Mel, we met Ray and Kylie.

Ray and Kylie have a son Jacob's age called Jesse and twin boys Liam and Ethan aged two.

Ray is also Nige's new surf buddy.

Ray and Kylie invited us to spend Easter with them at Kylie's fathers farm. The farm is located at Nulla Nulla which is a couple of hours from Port.

We had no camping gear whatsoever and due to go in a few days. Our neighbours who have also become good friends Colin and Karen; lent us an Ice box, water containers, and lots of other goodies. We borrowed a big tent which we have now bought from them and Nigel hurridly bought a cooker, gas lantern and other items to allow us to camp comfortably. Nige borrowed a trailer from work and we packed it all and set off on our trip.

We had an absolutley awesome time at the farm. We had wonderful weather after the forecast were so sketchy, all the days were lovely.

We camped in group in a field at the top of a hill near the farm house. Kylies father cut down a rotten tree and left us the task of burning all of it over the weekend which gave us a terrific camp fire. The old horse bundy came around to visit and was promptly saddled and ridden around the paddock with the children first and then Nige took a ride on him which was his a new experience.

There was an old Ute which ferried us all around and down to the river, the kids loved travelling in the back of that!!!

At the end of the lower field, there is a river, the river is quite shallow with little rapids. The kids jumped on body boards and surfed off down the river loving ever minute of it.

Will and Nige, decided to check the crudentials of their 4x4's and went off playing climbing hills and ruining the grass. Oops!!!

Easter morning, the kids had an easter egg hunt and consumed great amounts of chocolate.

We made some great new friends at the farm and thoroughly enjoyed every minute. The kids had a wonderful time too and got on great with all the other children there.