Posted on 18 August 2025
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Mum Today the kids had another day hanging with the three other families. They spent
a bit more time on the beach, but also roamed between campsites playing
everyone's card and board games in the shade of the various caravan awnings.
Later in the afternoon the kids had a game of beach cricket follow by more
playing in the sand. This time they made a big pizza. With eight slices that
each individual got to decorate. It was very cool to see all the different
styles and amount of details that went into each slice.
After dinner we hosted part 2 of Ratatouille with all eight kids watching this
time, before heading to bed. Again the fires could still be seen burning along
the northern coast.
Posted on 17 August 2025
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Mum I told the kids the previous night that they were not allowed to get up and play
until the sun was fully up and they had had breakfast. I forgot that they would
take this as a challenge rather than boundary setting. So when I got up to watch
the sunrise over the ocean Theo was up with me waiting for Arlo (from the
neighbouring camp site) to have breakfast so that they could both head back and
continue adding to their hermit crab world. It wasn't long before Olivia and
Arlo's brother Henry also joined in. A bit later in the morning James and Max
also joined the construction crew.
Once again the kids were down there for most of the day. Only coming back to
camp when asked to put on sunscreen, eat snacks, and fill water bottles.
Although we did drag them away from their creation for a swim at low tide off
the northern beach.
John and I spent most of the day going for a walk along the beach, looking for
humpback whales, catching up on reading, sorting through photos, and writing
blog posts 🙂.
In the evening we had a movie night at our caravan for the kids to watch
Ratatouille. We had 7 kids crowded around our little TV screen. We started
pretty late, so they only got through part of the movie, with the promise to
finish it the next night.
Posted on 04 August 2025
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Mum Today we started to head west towards the West Australia (WA) border. Along the
way we passed through Judbarra (Gregory) National Park - stopping for lunch at
the Victoria River Escarpment Trail car park. We then we continued along the
Victoria Highway until we were 16km east of the NT/WA border. We stayed the
night at the Alex Kellet Rest Area with half a dozen other caravans. We had some
lovely campsite neighbours who were very helpful in regards to the quarantine
requirements for the boarder crossing in the morning, and Olivia even manged
another sale of her bracelets.
Tonight we also had our first outside movie night, with a showing of Wild
Robot - Theo's choice.
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