Kerry and Bens Travels: January 2014

As the weather was so horrible yesterday Benny thought the road might've been a bit boggy so we drove into Bemm to meet Dave and Steph in their Yarris. They arrived early enough to have a drink in the pub so we figured it'd be rude not to ;) Luckily the road wasn't boggy but the corrigations gave the Yarris a run for its money, once we'd established going at 50-60kmph was smoother than 20kmph we made it back to camp. The rain had stopped but the wind had picked up, they were camping in Bennys old tent so we gave them a hand putting it up.

The next day we all piled into the Yarris and checked out McKenzies Fainforest walk. On the way back we stopped at a pub for a lunch time beer and Benny helped fix a Germans guys car, as it was a long weekend he and his friends were going to be stuck there or have to pay tow truck to the nearest town.... You would've thought after someone rescuing you like that you'd at least buy him a beer, especially as we were already IN a pub!!! Some people, no manners :p Malcolm and Trish had the campoven going when we got back so we had a yummy roast, veggies and the lot and we also made chocolate brownies for afterwards, who said you don't eat we'll when your camping!! That evening we learnt that David liked all songs with clapping in them....

Australia Day!! We made it into Bemm just before 12 but we struggled to stream Bennys phone so in the end we used his signal to hotspot to my phone to stream Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2013 through the stereo speakers, we managed to tune in at number 95 so only missed 5 songs, whoo-hoo!! During the day countless beers and ciders were consumed, we moved 4 times as it was either too hot, too windy or too shady! We discovered that we were all terrible at hacky-sack and the only way to get a decent rhythm was to use our hands and even that was questionable ;) Benny and Dave attempted to catch some fish but no joy :( During the day we all placed bets with who was going to make it into the top 10, with the deal being if you got number 10 (or over) you did 10 shots, if you got number 9 you did 9 shots etc... Poor Benny and Steph didn't make it into the top 10 so both of them downed 10 shots of tequila, Dave guessed number 3 and I got number 2 so got off lightly ;) we were all shocked at number 1 (Vance Joy's Riptide) but after dancing around to it like crazy drunks we got wolf whistled into the pub to let us know our dinner was ready ;)

Needless to say the next day was a bit of a struggle, for some people more than others!! A float in the sea and a fry up seemed to help ;) Dave and Steph had to hit the road to be back at work for Tuesday so after cleaning up some...lets just call it 'tent juice'...it was goodbyes all round, not too sad though cos planning on catching up on their road trip from NSW to Melbs in a couple of weeks time!!