The Whole Camping Story

I want everyone to know before I start this post that I enjoyed camping, I thought it was fun. There are parts of this story where I just want to explain how sometimes it can be a little harrowing, I'm not complaining

As I said we were on North Stradbroke Island for two nights. It was raining the afternoon we arrived but that passed after lunch and we went for a nice walk. We ended up at the most northerly part of the island (Point Lookout), which has a lovely, very long beach. We went for a cliff walk, during which we saw a family of dolphins frolicking about. It was so cool.

That evening Jamie cooked a lovely meal of tuna pasta on our camping stove. I have to say Kudos to Jamie it was a very tasty meal. He also had to suffer some obstacles, the main one being that in Australia at the moment it is dark at 6pm, so Jamie pretty much had to cook in the dark.

We got dinner finished just in time. Just as we finished eating a thunder storm broke out. Honestly I thought the world was going to end. We basically sat in the tent for the evening [note: if you are going camping bring travel scrabble as there is not much entertainment, alternatively camp on an island which provides entertainment for during storms.]

The next day was gorgeous and we spent the early part on the beach - we were woken at 7am by the very hot sun streaming into our tent. The water wasn't very warm but it was great fun once you got used to it. [Lil you would have loved it]. I got bitten - Jamie thinks it was sandflies, I didn't actually notice that I had been bitten at all.

In the afternoon, after a lovely lunch of fish and chips, we headed back to our campsite. Just as well really as an hour later (when Jamie was off taking a shower) it started to rain - torrential rain storm - and I was stuck in the tent. While sitting there I realised that puddles were forming around our tent and were soon going to be under our tent. And very quickly our little tent with me in it, was floating. I didn't know what to do and then I remembered our rucksacks in the apse. My rucksack got wet, put no damage was done to anything inside. When the rain finally stopped we had to move the tent to higher ground, in case it rained like that again. It was lucky we did as we were subject to an earth shattering thunderstorm again that night.

The island seems to get the worst of all the weather. Brisbane apparently didn't get the storms as bad as we did.

This morning was lovely and we packed up the tent in the sunshine. Everything was dried off. We cooked breakfast before we left. It was quite nice really. Then we got the ferry back to Brisbane.