David and Enid's Travels

Lorikeets at Big 4 Airlie Cove Campground

By this morning we were positive that there was something wrong with our refrigerator.  We’d stored all of our perishable goods in the campsite refrigerator overnight, and this morning ours was totally warmed up.  So I called a refrigeration repairman from the campsite office, and he indicated he would be here by sometime after noon.

The repairman came after lunch, and it turned out to be a very simple problem.  I didn’t realize there is a plug on the refrigerator.  It had become unplugged, probably when some of our gear fell against it.  So that cost us $50 to get the repairman to plug it in.  Anyway, we fastened the plug in place more securely with a zip tie and tape.  We’ll also watch it to make sure that it doesn’t happen again.  Live and learn.

It was really not a bad day today.  It started out raining, then the sun at least broke through the clouds.  Every couple of hours it just opened up and poured for a few minutes, but it didn’t rain constantly today.  We went swimming this afternoon.  There were a bunch of young adults in the pool mostly just drinking, but throwing a ball around.  They weren’t obnoxious at all and we swam several laps in the pool.  We think they may be army personnel (almost all men, two women) as they are camped here in tents with two army vans.  The pool is pretty small, so a length is maybe 10 m. 

This morning I went to a shopping centre on the bus, and tried to get my watch battery replaced.  The clerk said she couldn’t do it as then the watch wouldn’t be waterproof.  So I bought a battery at another store and changed it myself with my jackknife.  Seems to be waterproof.  I figured if the clerks at Walmart can change it ok, then I’m at least that competent!  I also got a skin for the phone as the display is getting scratched, and we put some of it on Enid’s camera as well.  The buses here give you a two hour ticket, so you can get on and off as often as you like in that time.  They charge different amounts when you get on the first time, depending on your final destination.

This is graduating high school students break week here in Australia – “schoolies week” – and literally the students call themselves “schoolies”.  They were getting on and off the bus using a pass that said “schoolie” on it, and some of them were wearing tee shirts with the same title.  We were marvelling today at the Australian language that puts an “-ie” or “-y” on the end of almost everything: barbies (barbeques), truckies (truck drivers), brekky (breakfast), genny (generator) and on and on.

Tomorrow we are heading farther north.  There is a free campsite on a beach about 350 km north of here where we plan to go.  Then we are going north of Cairns to Port Douglas to go on a snorkelling tour out on the Great Barrier Reef.

Enid kayaking in the Whitsunday Islands

For the last three days I haven’t updated the blog, as we have been out camping in the Whitsunday Islands, in Joe’s Beach which is actually on Whitsunday Island itself.   We could perhaps refer to them as the wet Sunday islands, because it was a very damp experience.

On Thursday we checked in with Salty Dog Kayak Rentals in Shute Harbour, and got our rental kayaks all sorted out.  They have a small office on the waterfront which they share with the company that took us to the island on “Scamper” their camper barge.  The clerk was an interesting woman.  She wants to go to Canada to travel (just for a holiday) by dog team, so we gave her some information about Land of the Loon Resort and Sundog Sled Excursions.

When we returned to our caravan park, we arranged parking while we were going to be away.  The front desk told me where I could park, so I walked back and checked it out.  It looked very wet, and I was sure that I would get stuck (bogged to use the Australian term).  When I said this to the clerk she said that it would be ok, and assured me that if I did get bogged, they’d tow me out.  We spent the rest of the afternoon and evening getting all of our food and gear packed into waterproof containers and dry bags.  At nine p.m. the sky was clear, the moon was out, and you could see the stars.

Sometime around midnight it started to rain.  By morning the ground, which was already saturated the day before, was overflowing.  I left Enid with our gear under the entry way to the van park, since we had to get on the bus at 6:15.  I drove the motorhome back to the parking area, and sure enough, immediately got stuck.  But I was far enough off the road not to block any traffic, so I locked up and walked the 400 m to the bus.  It was pouring rain.

We got to Shute Harbour about 6:30 a.m., and soon met the barge captain.  He loaded the kayaks and our gear and we were off to Whitsunday Island, roughly a half hour boat ride.  After we unloaded our gear at “Joe’s Beach” we sat under our umbrellas for a while until the rain lessened, then got our two tarps up: our small siltarp over the picnic table, and one plastic one we’d originally planned to cut for a ground sheet over the area where we planned to set up the tent.  It was a nice level site with what appeared to be good drainage.

Since we were now pretty wet anyway, we decided to try out our new stinger suits, and so set off snorkeling.  The tide was still pretty high, and we couldn’t see much as the water was rather murky, probably from all the rain as well as the current from the tide going out.  We did see a few small fish.  After that we went out in the kayaks for a short while before coming back to our campsite to eat lunch.  A large catamarran moored out in the bay, and four adults and a baby came in on their small dinghy.  We talked to them for quite a while and they suggested that the best snorkeling was just by the big rock on the next point.  We then set up our tent under the tarp.

In the afternoon we tried to go snorkeling off the beach, but it was too shallow, so we went out in the kayaks.  We found the spot with the good coral from the kayaks.  While there Enid spotted a large sea turtle, and we watched it surface several times.  While paddling back to shore I got a good sighting of it as it swam away from my kayak.  Enid also saw some kind of a ray fish in the shallow water at the beach.  The afternoon wasn’t bad once the rain stopped around noon, but it began to rain again as we made supper, and it continued throughout most of the night.

Reef off Joe's Beach

The tarp over the tent was a lifesaver.  It kept the water off the tent (our $70 special that we didn’t really have a lot of faith in it’s waterproofness) and running off the back of the tarp into the very sandy ground where it drained away.  Saturday was a very wet day.  It rained almost constantly, and at times very heavily.  We spent much of the morning inside the tent, out of the rain and the bugs.  The mosquitoes aren’t too bad, but there are a lot of tiny midges or sandflies that bite and really bother Enid.   Later between major squalls we did some kayaking and snorkelling.  In the afternoon we snorkelled off the point at low tide, and there is a nice coral reef there.

Evening brought a lot more rain, so much that we debated whether we would stay or try to get picked up in the morning.  While sitting in the tent to escape the rain at 4 p.m. we listened to the weather on the VHF radio, but it didn’t make us much the wiser as to how much rain to expect.  Finally we decided not to phone to get picked up in the morning.  Although we were wet, we weren’t much wetter than we’ve been while canoeing in Canada, and at least we were warm.

But at 7 a.m. the next day it was still raining, and I was so frustrated with the weather that I decided to contact the barge company.  I got the booking company, not the barge company directly, and told them to send the boat for us.  They said they would contact the barge company and have them phone us directly.  When we hadn’t heard from anyone for almost an hour, and the rain had finally stopped as well, we changed our minds and decided to stay.  We recontacted the booking system, they gave us the barge number directly, and so we phoned and left a message not to come for us. 

That turned out to be a good decision.  Just after that we saw a couple of dolphins swimming and so took the kayaks out and followed them around for almost an hour.  Some of the small fish (20 cm) fly through the air skittering over the water on their tails to escape the dolphins.  One passed in front of Enid, skimming the water for about 50 meters.  Then one came flying directly towards me and hit me hard in the middle of the chest before flopping into the water.  After following the dolphins we spent most of the morning paddling up to the Sawmill Beach area, where there were a lot of boats moored in Cid Harbour.

It only rained a bit as we returned from the morning paddle.  Later in the afternoon I snorkelled while Enid did her job as safety patrol for me by following me in the kayak.  This was the best snorkelling I had as I was able to swim out farther knowing the boat was available.  I saw a lot of good coral, and got some nice pictures, until my camera battery went dead.  Later I kayaked over to Cid Island, and saw a lot of sea turtles basking in the shallow water of a sandy bay across from our campsite.

Loading up the barge

We’re glad we stayed, as Sunday was a pretty decent day.  This morning the barge came for us as scheduled, and we returned to Shute Harbour.  Salty Dog Kayaking brought us back to the caravan park, where the park operators used a four wheel drive truck to pull me out of the mud.  The motorhome had actually sunk in quite a bit deeper than when I left it and it was almost up to the axle.  After we got out we went and restocked with groceries.  Unfortunately, our refrigerator doesn’t seem to be working correctly.  It is not getting very cold.  After leaving the food in it all day it has only gotten slightly cool, so tonight we took everything perishable over to the caravan park refrigerator.

It didn’t rain for most of the day, so we were able to get almost everything dried out well.  Unfortunately we got caught twice by sudden showers, so things that had been dried got partially wet again.  Now tonight it is raining again.  Everyone here says that it’s unusual for the rainy season to start so early.  The clerk in the store today when we were buying groceries said that they are just about writing off this year’s sugar cane crop, as the fields are too wet to harvest.  We just got wet!

Smalley's Beach

We spent a relaxing morning at Smiley’s Beach, walking along the ocean with the tide in.  It was hazy overhead, and very warm.  All along the beach were holes about 5 cm in diameter, and lots of small tracks beside them.  We assumed they must be turtle nests, but we saw no turtles.  When we got back to our campsite we sat under the shade of the awning, read, and I photographed a number of birds and some lizards.

We ate our lunch before setting off north once more.  It was just a little over 100 km to Airlee Beach.  We cut across country, and had to go over about 10 km of gravel road.  It was full of potholes, and very rough.  We probably didn’t go more than 20 km an hour over most of it (though the speed limit signs said 80), and the motorhome bounced and rattled along.  Once we got off the gravel the road was fine again.  We got here to Airlee Beach in the early afternoon, stopped at the bank to pick up our new bank cards, and then bought a bit of vegetables for supper’s stir-fry.

We checked in at the Big4 Airlee Cove and it is a very nice resort style caravan park.  There is a nice pool, so we went for our first swim before supper.  After supper Enid went to do the laundry.  Unfortunately, one of the machines wasn’t working properly, and wouldn’t spin out the clothes.  She thought that the clothes wouldn’t get dry, but they actually did.  Although it was pretty warm during the day, tonight is a lovely cool evening.

Something happened to my computer tonight, as when I plugged in the hard drive to try and back it up, the computer shut down.  It wouldn’t restart until I did a system restore.  It seems to be working again correctly now, and I did get everything backed up.  Now I am going to try and post some more pictures to www.digipac.ca/pictures.

Brush Turkey, Smalley's Beach, Queensland

I awoke at just after 6 am and decided to go out with the video camera to see what I could get pictures of.  Enid stayed in bed.  I got some good video (I hope) of the kangaroos eating in the large field to our north.  I then walked around quite a way on the walkway through this protected area, and saw a number of different birds, including a large flock of sulphur cockatoos (which screamed at me and I’m sure awoke the campsite), and some spoonbills.  There were also a few of the magpie geese, but not nearly so many as last night.

It didn’t rain much after we went to bed last night, and it was just partially cloudy as we left and drove north.  We passed many fields of sugar cane, and also fields with brahman cattle.  We stopped at the information building in Mackay to see if we could locate a store with stinger suits.  The clerk said “we sell them,” but when we looked, they had nothing in our size.  We then drove to a mall where we saw a sporting goods store, with the same result.  So we have been unable to locate anything.

As it turns out, it doesn’t matter for this campsite anyway, as there is nowhere here you would be able to swim.  We drove north of Mackay about 20 km to the turnoff to Cape Hillsborough National Park.  We followed the road for a way and Enid said “why don’t we go into Ball Bay, it’s shorter.”  So we turned off the road, and then she said, “there’s a camping reserve there.”  That triggered my memory that we didn’t want to go there, as I recalled reading about it on the Internet and remembered that I hadn’t thought much of the description.  Since we were almost there anyway we drove on, but weren’t really able to locate anything that looked remotely worthwhile.

Motorhome at Smalley's Beach, Queensland

We drove back, and made the trip out to Smalley’s beach.  The last part of the road is very narrow gravel road, and at one spot there was a low overhanging tree.  It looked very marginal for clearance, so I got out and looked at it carefully.  It was ok to go through tight on the right side, and we didn’t have any problem.  Our problem started when we got to the actual campground.  The only way to register here is by the Internet or phone.  There are camping stickers, but unlike Canadian self-registration sites where you just leave money, here there is no way to pay.  Unfortunately, the cell phone coverage here is very poor, so the computer wouldn’t get a solid network connection.  I tried dialing on the cell phone, and could hear the woman on the other end fine, but I was badly breaking up.  Eventually after about 10 minutes I got her through to the point where she had my credit card number, and then the phone went dead as we had just used up the rest of our time.  I did learn that the site we were in (number two) was supposedly occupied, so we registered for number three, and moved the motorhome.  No-one has yet showed up for that site, though someone came in not long ago for number four.

The campsite itself is nice, very simple, with small clearings and a picnic table for each site.  We are one of just three camping units here.  There are many birds: a pair of brush turkeys, where the male has huge yellow wattles, a lot of kookaburras, and a small bird with a bluish-grey chest, perhaps a bar-shouldered dove.  We also saw a pair of eagles out over the ocean, though they were too far away to identify what variety.It was warm this afternoon, and there were some mosquitoes.  We both put on repellent and that kept them away completely.  There were also some large horse flies, but they didn’t bite us.  Enid sat down in the shade by the beach where there was a nice breeze off the water, while I walked around and took video of the birds and plants.  A small wallaby jumped by just about the time I was going to start supper.  Later on we saw it eating just across the road from our campsite.

Enid and David at Tropic of Capricorn, Rockhampton, Queensland

We truly are in Australia.  Tonight we saw our first kangaroos here at this free campground.

Before we left Bororen this morning we stopped at a farm supply/hardware store and got a small package of bolts to fix the heat shield over the water heater.  We then drove in to Rockhampton where we crossed the Tropic of Capricorn, which officially now places us in the tropics.  It is pretty warm, but not unbearably so, and even though it rained tonight, the humidity is not really bad.  In fact, it’s far better than I remember summers in Southern Ontario.

In Rockhampton we went to an RV dealer, and got a new part for the waste water drain.  The old one had one broken clamp on it, and I was afraid it would fall off and get lost.  We tried to get stinger suits in four different sporting goods places, and weren’t able to get any in our size.  We also stopped at a grocery store and planned our meals for the four days we’ll be camping in the Whitsundays.  After leaving Rockhampton there isn’t much of anything as you drive north.  The land is ranching country, though we didn’t see a lot of cattle, mostly just open spaces with scattered trees.  There are almost no towns, so it’s as deserted, or more so, than the Saskatchewan prairie.

We stopped tonight at this recreational reserve.  It is a free campsite, and though there is no cost there are still flush toilets, and showers ($1 for three minutes).  As we pulled in I went under a tree, and didn’t realize that it had some low hanging branches.  We caught and broke one off as it hit our roof mounted air conditioner.  I have no way to get up on the roof, so hope that it didn’t do any damage.  I’ll have to try and figure a way to get up there and check it tomorrow.  We got everything set up and it started to rain heavily.  The area is a wetland nature preserve, and as soon as it started raining a lot of frogs came out and were hopping around.  As well there is a large flock of Magpie Geese here.  They are black and white birds, about the size of a snow goose, and they honk just like you’d expect geese to do.

Flamboyant Tree

It was after supper that we saw our first kangaroos.  There were at least six of them eating at dusk in the wetland field about a hundred metres from our motorhome.  There are also a number of different blooming plants.  The only one that I can identify is the flamboyant tree with its bright orange flowers and huge seed pods.

Galah Cockatoo

It rained last night, and it rained again several times during the day.  Sometimes the rain was quite heavy, but it generally only lasted for a few minutes, and then would stop quite quickly.  Since it was never very windy, for the most part the rains were just gentle and warm, falling straight down.

We continued on our drive north through Queensland.  Much of the country we travelled through looks uninhabited, with large stands of eucalyptus trees.  Occasionally there were agricultural clearings, sometimes with grazing cattle, quite a lot of sugar cane in some parts, and we saw one very large banana plantation.  We also saw a large orchard with some type of fruit or nut trees, but we aren’t sure what they were.

This morning we bought a large mango from a fruit stand set up at one of the service stations.  We asked the man selling them to pick us one that would be good and ripe tomorrow, as we really have no idea what a good mango looks like.  He checked over several and then settled on one, so we will try it tomorrow, and see if his judgement was good.

We stopped in mid-afternoon at the very small town of Bororen.  There is a fairly inexpensive caravan park here, and although it is quite close to the road it isn’t too noisy (the highway is not nearly as busy here).  The A1 road is now just two lanes, but for the most part it is an acceptable road, though occasionally it seems pretty rough.  I’m not sure if that’s entirely the road or if part of it isn’t the pretty stiff suspension in our motorhome.  The road does seem to have a lot of roughly patched potholes though.  Yesterday we bought a convex mirror for Enid’s side of the van and mounted it under the other flat mirror.  That gives me a lot better view out to the blind spot.  However, the whole mirror assembly wants to turn in to the side of the truck, and I think that’s due to the vibration.  I’ll need to get some better wrenches so I can tighten the mirror more thoroughly.  On my side I looked out this morning and saw a piece starting to fall off the motorhome.  It’s the cover on the propane water heater.  When we stopped to fix it I found that a screw had fallen out, and the other was loose.  I’ll have to get some new bolts, but for now I’ve taped it in place with duct tape.

As we drove into the town we saw a large number of rose colored (Galah) cockatoos.  I tried to take their picture later after we had set up, but they were pretty high in the trees.  Unlike the sulphur crested cockatoos, which have a most horrible grating screech for a call, these rose colored ones have a rather pleasant call.  There are also a lot of very brightly colored green and red lorrikeets around.  They fly very fast and are very attractive birds.

Dicky Beach, Caloundra, Queensland

Tonight we are camped at Dicky Beach in Caloundra on the south end of the Sunshine Coast, just north of Brisbane.  We didn’t rush away this morning as we didn’t have so far to go today.  Travel was fast, as there was a good freeway almost all the way.  It is a busy road, with 5 or 6 lanes in one direction at some points as you go through Brisbane.

This morning I noticed my watch was missing about half an hour after I’d had my shower.  I went back to the amenities block, but it wasn’t there, and I posted a notice on the wall.  However, I still didn’t have it back by the time we were ready to leave, so I walked up to the registration desk, and inquired if anyone had turned in a watch.  Luckily someone had, and so I got my watch back.  Enid was bugging me that I need to have a checklist to take to the shower, as I’m always leaving something behind (this summer in Alaska I lost the case for my towel, and three years ago in New Zealand I lost my shampoo, and our whole shaving kit at Missinipe one summer).

We arrived in Caloundra shortly after lunch.  We came here so that we could visit with Allen and Naideen Halladay who live here.  Before we went to see them though we stopped at a BCF (Boating, Camping, Fishing) store on the way into town and bought a DC inverter so that I can charge my computer when we are in campsites with no power, and a barbie.  It’s a propane (LPG) barbecue, but is Australian style, so it doesn’t have the open grill that ours do in North America.  Instead it has a flat griddle that is quite similar to a George Foreman grill.  We want something so we can cook outside as it is getting pretty warm here as we get farther north.  The barbecue works well though, and we used it to prepare supper tonight.

We walked along the beach and waded in the surf here this afternoon.  There were a few people out on surfboards and body boards, but not a lot.  We haven’t gone swimming in the ocean yet, but will have to soon.  Enid is fighting a cold, so hasn’t felt much like doing anything strenuous.

Tonight is a lovely evening, not too hot, and you can see the stars overhead, though none of the constellations are familiar.  It seems strange to see the sun and moon in the north.  It also confuses my sense of direction, so it’s a good thing that I have a GPS.

Enid at Wooyung Beach

This morning was beautiful with bright sun.  The temperature was near 28 °C by mid afternoon.  The wind however was strong from the north east, and got stronger during the day.  We drove north and travel was quite slow until after lunch.  This was because of the number of towns to go through, and because there was a lot of road construction so that we waited for flagmen several times.  However this afternoon the road was better and so we made much better progress.  Along the way we travelled through a lot of Eucalyptus forest, and some agricultural land.  Two of the main crops in this area are bananas and sugar cane.  We passed a sugar cane processing plant at one point, and it had a very strong sweet odor.

We came in to a small campsite at Wooyung Beach about an hour and a half south of Brisbane.  To get here we drove a few kilometers off the main highway down a narrow twisting paved road towards the ocean.  I missed the turn into the site and we had to go down the road another few hundred metres to where we could turn around.  When we registered the desk clerk (actually the owner I believe) wanted to make certain we knew there was no drinking water here.  That would be an issue, but we knew that from our research last night on the Internet, so we made sure both our water tanks were filled before we left this morning.

After parking the motorhome we walked to the beach which is just a hundred metres across the road (you can hear the surf crashing on the sand tonight).  The beach is mile after mile of clean white sand extending north and south as far as we could see.  The strong wind from the northeast was blowing up sea spray into the air, so that it was very hazy.  We waded in the water and walked on the sand for a few kilometers. 

Fisherman collecting sand worms on Wooyung Beach

We saw two men who appeared to be dragging something along with them, and stopping every few feet.  When we got close we could see that they were each dragging a net bag of dead fish in the water.  I stopped and asked one of them what they were doing, and he explained, “we’re catching sand worms” and showed me what they were getting.  They put a piece of rotting or decaying flesh on the sand, and the worms attach their head to it.  Then they would grab the worm in their fingers and pull it out of the sand.  The worms moved quickly, so they had to be fast and accurate to catch them, and the worms often got away.  The worms are used for fish bait, and the one fisherman explained to us how they put the worms, which were at least 30 cm long, onto the hook, and where they fished with them in the surf.

We also saw our first Australian wildlife (other than birds) today.  Enid saw a small snake about 18 inches long and about the thickness of her thumb.  When we came back from the beach we saw a lizard, about the same length.  We think it was a bearded dragon.  There also are Australian Brush Turkeys here.  They have dark black feathers with a very bright red head and yellow wattles.

Enid and David, 38th wedding anniversary, Port Macquarie

Today is our 38th wedding anniversary, and we celebrated it by starting on our travels heading north to Port Macquarie.  For the most part the road was excellent four lane highway.  I’m happy with the way the motorhome drives, though it isn’t super powerful and when you climb hills in 5th gear it really slows down.  And it’s not cheap on fuel as it is getting about 15 l/100 km, which is about what we get with our Yukon at home.

Along the way we saw some interesting signs, one of which warned of Koala’s for the next 6 km.  They have overhead “fauna passes” across the highway, about the height of a power pole and going from trees on one side to the othere.  They appear to be a cable with some wire mesh looking like a tunnel, maybe 15 cm in diameter.  We assumed they are for koala’s to cross over the highway safely.  We however have seen almost no wildlife, no kangaroos, no koalas, just lots of very noisy birds.

When we arrived here at Port Macquarie we walked along the breakwall which is made of huge rocks, most of which have been painted with the names and dates of visits, or events like weddings and deaths.  Enid said that it reminded her of the signpost village at Watson Lake.  There were a number of people surfing, some of them quite good.

After we came back to our motorhome, Enid lay down for a rest, and I walked to the reception desk to see if there was a store like a K-mart close by.  I wanted to get some plastic tubs to keep our water hoses in.   Today they had some water in them which drained into the hose storage compartment and got it quite wet.  With some tubs I should be able to keep that from happening.  The receptionist told me there wasn’t a K-Mart, but that there was a Big W and marked it’s location on the map.  I totally misinterpreted the distance, and so I set off on foot.  It took me over an hour and a half to walk there and back, so it must have been close to 8 km.  I did get the tubs, and some strange looks from others as I was walking back carrying them in front of me.

Today wasn’t very sunny, but that also meant it wasn’t too hot.  Tonight it is a nice temperature, and you can hear the roar of the ocean surf, and the cicadas in the trees.

Today will be our last before we move north. We are planning to leave tomorrow morning and head towards Airlie Beach which we must be at by November 18 to go on our kayaking tour.

Enid washed clothes this morning in the laundromat here in the caravan park. Then she hung the wash to dry on the lines. Enid is surprised that they can line dry so close to the ocean. When we were on Vancouver Island this summer nothing would dry. Enid even ironed her skirt to wear tomorrow, which is our wedding anniversary. While Enid did that I unpacked and put everything away that remained in our suitcases and backpacks.

After lunch we walked over to the K-Mart and did our last purchase of major supplies today, so we think that we have most of what we need. We’d like to find a small portable gas barbeque, but haven’t seen anything yet.

It rained last night just about the time we went to bed, and this afternoon there was another heavy thunderstorm and rain, but not too violent a wind. We had thought about possibly going swimming, but it’s a good thing we didn’t as it opened up and poured just shortly after we got back from shopping. We tested the air conditioner and it seems to work fine. We also mounted a strap to the wall to lock the TV in place while we are travelling. We got some guy ropes to use on our awning so it won’t rip off in the wind. Everything fits nicely into the underneath storage, including our two large (and now mostly empty) suitcases, and the empty backpacks, and there is still some spare room in our cupboards and drawers. Everything is nicely stowed away neat and tidy.

And we now have a working microwave installed. The salesman from the RV centre delivered it after supper tonight and I got it installed back into the cabinet. It will be very nice to have whenever we are camped in a caravan park with power.

I haven’t taken any pictures for the last two days, but have posted a number of those taken over the last couple of days. Check them out at digipac.ca/pictures.