Annabel & Amelia: Camping trip

So christmas was over and it was time to get ready for the New Year! We had decided that we were going camping with my sister Jo and Steve and Nic on the way back for a little holiday and break the 10hr trip up. We left early on New Years Eve, and made it up to Stewarts Point by late morning. The 4 hour trip was alot easier! My sister had all the campsite set up and all we had to do was blow up our airbed and put it in the tent! It was great! The campsite was right on the water exactly 1 meter from the water's edge. It was a river connected to the beach, which was just over the other side of the mangroves. We camped there once before when Annabel was a baby. Camping is a huge Australian tradition. Every year, mainly at Christmas, families will go camping for a week or 2 to camping grounds (usually the same one) with friends and family. This camp ground was really nice as it had nice ementites and powered sited if you wanted them. There are camp grounds all up the coast, and we hope to get into the swing of camping as our kids get older. I always loved it as a kid.

Annabel and Amelia loved it. Annabel is a real little camper, she just lived in her swimmers and collected shells and both girls did alot of fishing. Because we were right on the water we would just cast a line out and the girls sat there on there chairs waiting for a fish to bite, and one did! Annabel caught herself a decent sized breem! It was actually quite big! The funny part though was that the hook wasn't in its mouth, she somehow managed to catch it with the hook in its back. Not funny for the fish though, but I have never seen a fish caught like that. She was very proud of herself!

My brothers and brother-in-law, all love fishing. My youngest brother Tim came camping aswell, and he and my Brother-in-law Steve and nephew Nic, all went out in the boat everyday catching alot of fish. It was great! We had an awesome fish fry for New Years Eve. They would catch everything from big fish to small fish for live bait, and nippers and pippies and they had crab traps out to catch all the big mud crabs which they did. Annabel and Amelia loved looking at all the different things they caught.

We only stayed for 2 nights, I could have stayed longer but we had to get back because Adam had to go back to work. But we are keen to go again next year!

Amelia sat there for ages waiting