Mon 26th – Onwards to the Secret Spot

It was a pretty slow pack up in the morning, the after effects of too many bubbles and beer and port and cider and whatever else everyone was drinking!!  Kelly and Kyle were super quick with their pack up but cos we’d been at Boat Harbour for a few days we seemed to have spread out a bit and we took a bit longer but appreciated their help J  After a quick stop off at the local servo/grocery store we drove on to Glens secret spot…. Sorry I cant spill the beans on here with the name of the place but it was pretty nice.  Gorgeous drive in with a view of a massive white sandy beach, once we got down there we discovered it was pretty windy, we were lucky and managed to find a sheltered spot at the end of the beach J

Letting the tyres down and sheltering from the wind

Another guy was fishing and his dogs came to investigate us.... including one that lifted his leg on Kyles tyre, right on the valve... before he'd managed to let that one down!! Uh-oh

Wide, white, sandy beaches

The convoy

Following

Camp... This was boxing day, Benny still suffering from Christmas Days boozing, my sarong covering his face and not even enough energy to take off his jumper despite the fact it was sheltered from the wind here and the sun was HOT!!!

Sat 25th – Christmas Day

Kelly and Kyle had brought fresh supplies so we pooled resources and enjoyed some bacon and eggs for brekkie!! Then of course the boys wanted to flick their rods so we hit the beach for…. You guessed it, some fishing J No joy and the weather was a bit off and on, Kel and me where spending our time striping down to bikinis and then putting warm tops back on etc in the end we decided to go back to camp for some food and the girls decided to get into the Christmas spirit with a few bottles of bubbles and the boys decided not to admit defeat and try and different fishing spot!!  When they graced us with their presence again we swap Secret Santa presents, some goodies such as a puzzle, a spud gun, a kite and some awesome straws (see photos!!) and a boggle game that, me the dyslexic, was hopeless at!!!  The drinks continued to flow and the catch up continued J

Beach Life

 Camp Set Up

Secret Santa

Enjoying the straw mustaches!!

And bubbles ;)

No straw and trying to make it stick!! His own tash was getting in the way of the suction ;)

Christmas Eve

Really nice weather in the morning so we  went for a dip in the ocean, I tried to wash my hair, Ive got this travel stuff that’s ok for the environment, there was a few sets coming in which I discovered made it hard to get the job done!! First I had to lather and keep my head above the white wash and then I had to try and get the shampoo out without getting it in my eyes so I could see when the waves were coming so I could try and dive under them!!  We had another dip later on in the day when Benny came back from the bush toilet looking a little mortified, I asked him what was wrong and his response was “I forgot to take toilet roll!!” All he was wearing was boardies and so he had to settle for wiping his bum Indian style…after using half a bottle of alcohol gel the ocean and sand exfoliation was the next cleaning ritual!...... I cooked dinner that night ;)

Carried on with some more ute jobs and then chilled out together in the double hammock J  We were only in there for 30 mins or so and Kelly and Kyle rocked up, yeeey, they’d found us!!  The rest of the evening was spent catching up, checking the beach out and enjoying some cold ones J Later in the evening the boys spent some time hunting for the weed (that I, the non-smoker) had hidden under Bennys instructions…. No joy for them that night!!

Thurs 22nd – 23rd – Boat Harbour

The next couple of days we spent re-organising the kitchen, well mainly Benny reorganized to how he wanted it and I watched so when he couldn’t remember where he’d put everything I could help!!  We had a couple of beach swims and got some more jobs done on the ute, also there were some perfectly positioned trees so we chucked the hammock up to enjoy some relaxing hammock time J  Before we left Freo I’d bought some fly screen mesh and we’d measured it in strips around the bed, I’d then sewn some zips in for the corners to act as a mossie net…. It wasn’t staying put too well and as you know from my previous posts I was getting quite a few mossie bites!!  So I thought that if I sewed some Velcro on the side with the cupboards they’d be less of it to pull down, it took me AGES to sew the Velcro strips on, the thread blowing in the wind and sticking to the Velcro as I was trying to sew it, no joke I think it took about 3 hours, all the time me being jealous of Benny chilling out in the hammock… when it came to stick it up I’d sewn the Velcro on the wrong bloody side!!! GRRRR, the next day I unpicked it all and started again, having a blonde moment by trying to squish a mossie as I was sewing with the needle in my hand, ouccch, gave Benny a good laugh J

Benny worked out in the evening that so far we’ve had 7days with fish for meals and 6 days without…be it for brekkie, lunch or dinner J Living off the land!!

I'd also smuggled a christmas tree decoration from Freo.... I told Benny I'd thrown it out but I'd hidden it under the bed, you need some sparkle at Christmas and it looked pretty good in the sun :)

Wed 21st - Jobs Day

After borrowing some garage space, Benny fitting some new springs (thanks guys) and me patting the newly born calves, we headed into Albany to get some exciting jobs done… yawn, food shopping, booze shopping (a bit better than food!), and a launderette run, finally we were ready to hit the road again, made it to Boat Harbour, near Welstead, as the sun was going down, it was pretty busy already for the Christmas period and we were lucky to get a spot, Kelly and Kyle were coming down in a few days so we wanted the spot to be big enough for  4 of us J We also had no signal so hoped the directions we gave them made sense and they saw the sign on the skip that we almost missed!!

Jesse and Billy with the calves.. a bit warey at first and then they're all over you!!

Fitting the new, heavy duty springs

Sooo much food shopping!!!! I wont tell you how much it all cost :p Its gonna last us a while ;)

Tues 20th – Albany with Jesse, Jaz and Billy

In Albany we hit a few shops to get car bits and I bought some clothes dye from Spotlight (more on that later!).  Bumped into one of Bennys missus friends in the shops and drove out to their place to catch up, went fishing… I am coming to terms with the fact this is a very aussie thing to do!!  

Didn’t catch anything (worthwhile!) so went back to Jessies and had some fish from his freezer and enjoyed a movie on a super comfy sofa J  I also used the dye I’d bought earlier, I’d settled on “denim blue” and was dying a white hoody I’d brought with me, the worst colour for camping but the comfiest big hoody and some light coloured shortes…. My idea was to dye them blue to disguise the grubbiness!!  I didn’t have any gloves so used my hands, of course my hands went blue… I showed Benny and said “It looks like I’ve got leprosy!!” His response was PRICELESS, “Shouldn’t your hands be green then?!” Urm, “What?!” His explanation… “Arent Leprocorns green?!!” hahahaha, and he thinks I’M the blonde one in the relationship!!!

Sun 18th – Mon 19th – Denmark with Glen

We ended up staying with Glen for another couple of nights, Benny loved catching up with his mate, I enjoyed Glens cruisy, easy going company and also the fact we had bed indoors J Glen has the most amazing house, wonky floorboards, huge kitchen and living room, wood burning stoves, lizards that live in the walls.. you can hear them through the plasterboard… and a duck that lives behind the tv!! Haha J   

Of course the couple of days in Denmark was orientated around fishing but I also enjoyed some beach time until the clouds came over...

a river rope swing… which wasn’t hugely successful due to the handle, a bit of wood, being twisted into the rope, so when I jumped and tried to swing the wood twisted and I lost my grip and fell into the water not as elegantly as planned!!...

It was actually quite shallow there but instead of being the caring boyfriend and asking if I was ok Benny was too busy laughing and Glen got the caring points by asking!!

Hanging and swinging around in the water was alot more comfortable!!!

Benny chopping wood for the fire, it was pretty chilly in the evenings!! I was helping him by making the appropriate noise as he swung his axe.. "NUURRRGGGHHH"...

...Dont think he appreciated my noises, or the camera too much!!

I also tried to get back into the exercising and went for a jog from Glens while the boys went on a fishing mission that lasted until 11pm!!!  After a great couple of days chilling out we thought we better hit the road and make it to Albany…