Back in the sunshine state

Arrived at Sunseeker midday yesterday - warm and sunny. Got the van parked up the back and started the long process of unpacking after 4 months away. Our "cottage" was in good order, still clean and tidy. We broke the trip back at Tweed overnight - the caravan park was more or less at the end of the Coolangatta airport runway so it was incoming and outgoing most of the day. Not too bad compared with some of the road noise places we stayed at. It was a breeze going over the Gateway bridge, no tolls to worry about and all we heard was a beep from the E-tag transponder as it deducted money from our GoVia toll account. On arrival at the village, our little Hyundai Excel fired into life after sitting idle under the carport for 4 months and that was a relief because the battery was expected to be flat. Some of the more memorable places we went to since last September were Tallangata on the Murray River, Corowa same area, Bendigo and especially Ballarat, Lake Jindabyne up in the Snowy Mountains - gorgeous place, Hawkesbury river area, Goulburn, and the north east coast of NSW, Nelson Bay, Port Macquarie, Sawtell. The places we would like to go back to with a bigger boat are Lk Jindabyne, Hawkesbury river, Nelson Bay and Sawtell (Coffs Harbour), but not middle of summer and not school holidays. We have a good tent, and planning starts next week