Wild Windy Wet Weekend

Well we dodged the bullet on that storm that came through last weekend. We were advised to be in for gale force winds, rain etc. We did get some heavy rain and very strong winds but other than that not much compared to the Gold Coast, Coffs Harbour, Sydney and now poor old Tasmania. We rolled the cover from the pool back and Brian tied it down with rope as the wind was blowing it off again, it is very heavy duty bubble wrap a kind of thermal cover and if it did blow over the canal wall we would have had a job getting it back up. Brian also put extra ropes on the two boats down on the poontoon. We just stayed indoors not venturing out at all. The wind has been very strong until today when it has finally eased off and once again it is nice and sunny. The pool had waves on it and leaves galore along with other rubbish blew in all of which Brian has blown out with the leaf blower.

 

 

 

Back To Bribie

We arrived back to Bribie on the Sunday May 29th, overnighted in the caravan at Worrim. We had a good drive down from Ninderry where "Poppy" was being stored at our very good friends we were so grateful to Lyn and John for minding our little van. We arrived at Worrim around 1.30pm, found a site and in no time were all set up. As we were only here overnight we had paid an extra $20 to give us a later check out time of 1600pm. We never put the van fridge on or set the tv up - no need. Dinner Sunday night was at the Blue Pacific Pub, then back to the van for the night. I dug out the blankets and heater as it was mighty chilly. Alarm set for 6.30 as we had to be at Banksia Beach for 8.00am on the Monday morning as we had to take the Phillips to the Brisbane Airport and with traffic on the HWay they wanted to allow plenty of time incase of incidents. I - Chris actually went with the Phillps to the airport as Brian was not feeling to well. We drove down in the brand new Kia Sportage, very comfy I was sitting in the back. Arrived at the airport in plenty of time, dropped Mike and Margaret off and then I headed back toward Bribie.Stopped at Nudgee servo for a loo and coffee stop. I arrived back at Bribie around 1230. Brian had made a cuppa which we great, we headed back to the van park to collect Poppy and drop her off at the place where we usually store her once here. We are now here until early August. I/well will update again at a later date.