Vale Dad

My dad passed away 2 weeks ago, exactly 3 months after his 75th birthday. He hasn’t been well since fighting off a brain tumour last year in November. They operated and removed it but soon found more cancer in his lungs. He had chemo which seemed to help but then things started going downhill again. […]

The Toad King

Well Dazzler, it’s been 12 months since you left us and I still think about you almost every day mate. I wish that you could have seen what the past 12 months have brought for us – the ecstasy of seeing the Boks win another world cup and the suffering that COVID-19 has brought on […]

Summer holiday 2016-2017

For our summer camping holiday this year, we decided to change venues and head east to Gippsland instead of making the usual trek down to Indented Head. The caravan park was great with a pool, jumping pillow, games room and free wi-fi – we hardly saw the kids! There was fishing just a 10 minute […]

Camping and hiking the Cathedral Range

Over the March Labour Day weekend, we decided to go bush camping up in the Cathedral Ranges with some school friends of ours. We had fantastic weather and the camping and hiking was fabulous. The kids had a great time and we were even lucky enough to have a kangaroo and her joey come bounding […]