Thanks Paul and Flick for organising the weekend !
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There goes 2009.
Seasons greetings and all the best for 2010. We hope you all had a great Christmas and enjoyed your new years eve parties.
We had Christmas at home with some of the usual suspects. The food was great. We had turkey, roast lamb and a fish potjie as mains with a wide range of starters dips and salads. On Boxing Day we departed for our first camping trip with Jake to the Central Coast. We stayed at Dunleith Caravan Park at the Entrance. It was challenging, but we loved it.
Here are some GPS coordinates : =-33.338201, 151.50243
Google Maps : Link
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As usual we hit the road out of Sydney. Up north this time, about 35 km west of Gosford next to the Hawkesbury river.
And yes, even though I didn’t arrange the weekend ( Thanks Rob and Eli ) we did have to pitch tents in the rain again 
The rain was short lived though and the rest of the weekend was sunny and very warm.
Almost 20 of us this time, looks like the camping bug has taken . It just seems to get bigger and bigger every time. This trip we had 2 boats and everything else that makes a long weekend camping fun.
A nice wood fire every night, a bit of 4 wheel driving in the area ( Ryan and Fiona lost a tyre half way – luckily no-one got hurt ).
Plenty of boating that included wake boarding and other skiing up and down the Hawkesbury river. Unfortunately no fish ( we tried … )
Paul made his first potjie ( Oxtail ) and it was awesome. Almost everyone had a turn in either the hammock or on a sun bed in the shade under a tree simply relaxing or reading the paper.
Thanks everyone – we had a ball. Here is a link to some more photos
It’s clear that when the blog goes dry things at work are crazy.
I don’t think I have had a more demanding 5 weeks at work ever. But the lessons learnt and the experience gained — invaluable.
One of my mates ( Mark ) saved me from certain implosion last weekend by taking me out of town to a beautiful piece of farm land owned by his sister.
We had no running water or any other of the typical facilities you’d expect at a camping ground and this made it eve more special.
Setup camp next to a old caravan, now home to some swallows and a few wasps. We used the tarp to collect rainwater for drinking and did a bit of “Australian” hunting.
It’s a bit of a drive ( about 7 hours north of Sydney ). We left here on the Friday night at about 11 PM and arrived there around 6 AM on Saturday
morning. I have some photos and will only attach 1 to the front page of this blog – Don’t want to offend anyone with photos of dead animals – some people still think red meat grows in packets on trees – But if you want more just click on the photo.
Anyway – The pressure at work is dissipating and there is light at the end of the tunnel ( Hallo December, I’m back )
PS. You might notice the MO – If you don’t know. The month of November is always “Mo vember” here in OZ. We grow a moustache and raise money for charity ( Men’s Health )
As always it gets shaved off on the 1st of December.
Random Photo
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