Takin the kids camping at Wirrabara Forest from sun-tues, its the youngests first campout.
Well, things didn't go quite as planned. It was pretty simple, get the youngest some camping experience in a place that we are all famliar with, take the kids bikes and explore the forrest tracks and have just a generally good time.
Didn't happen.
Firstly, as I was trying to pack up all the gear on the saturday for an early sunday departure, my annoying father inlaw decides he is going to drive 200ks to pay us a visit and wouldn't leave. What was I supposed to tell him to piss off? So I didn't get the gear ready.
Sunday. He turns up again, what the?
Monday, I got all the gear packed, hooked up the camper, got the kids in the ute and we were off.
When we got to wirrabara I checked first to see if there were too many others at the camp grounds.
Empty, not a soul.
So I went down to the rangers office to see where everyone was and his responce was "you could camp here but because of the catstrophic fire danger tomorrow, we might have to ask you to move on at about midnight or so."
Ok, fair enough.
So not letting this deter us, we move on to Pt Germain caravan park on the other side of the ranges. My thinking was at least we can still camp out so to speak and we could catch the Oz day celebrations they hold down on the beach.
Problem solved?
Camp is set up, Im making some lunch for the kids, when the youngest (2 yrs) says that he's got a sore throught....Up comes lunch.
Poor little bugger was so excited to come camping with dad. So the missus came and picked him up and myself and my oldest (7 yrs) stayed on.
Dad my back hurts....up comes dinner.
I felt so sorry for my two boys, they were so looking forward to trip. So I left the camp still set up and came home, luckily the campers next to us offered to watch over our gear.
Upon getting home, I learned that the kids had a bout of gastro, which they must have caught from their Granpa who had it the day before visiting(That F@#$ing Pain in the F@#$ing Arse old coot did it on F@#$ing purpose I Reckon!!!):motz:
So, how was your Ozday weekend?