Sight unseen for some time

Dear Blog

It s been some time since we updated you and we are sorry but this internet thingy has us beat.  My carrier is Telechoice and they tell you they are on the Telstra network and have 98% of the coverage of Telstra - Nope! not true.  Stephen signed up with Telstra and he's had a bit of service, I've had none for the last ten days. But thats about as hard as its got over the last week, as you'll see from the photos below:

 

Highlights - Oli lost his legs at Victoria Harbour                                 Stephen washed the shovel

We took a road, Tash thinking if was sealed, well aren't all roads? hmmm, the bitumen stopped and red dirt and corrugations set in.  It was our shakedown for the new van and I'm pretty sure we both cried silently when we imagined what was going on inside.  Well - it was all OK. The Corelle stood up well, the fridge stayed close but we did lose the fire extinguisher - it popped out of the wall (???) and a couple of things we didn't put away fell over - we were very impressed to be honest.

We made our way to the Duke of Orleans caravan park for a couple of nights, not a lot to say about that - unless you need to fill up or require power don't worry about missing out on that one at the princely sum of $57 per night.

But what a great base it was to go and see Victoria Harbour - what a stunner, we spent many hours here digging Oliver into the sand, Caleb experiencing proper bush toilet 101 and Stephen washing the shovel (from Caleb's toilet 101 lesson).

Stephen and Oliver have become expert climbers, whenever they see rocks they must be climbed.

A bit of fun holding onto the side of the car, driving at slower than walking pace down the beach (I'm sure they wished mum wasn't there to keep the speed down)

Little Wharton Beach

Victoria Harbour

And to top off an amazing day, we all went sandboarding on some really pristine, steep dunes.  The sand was so fine we're still getting it out of creases a week later.  We may never get it out of the car carpet.

After three nights at the Duke we decided to head off and see Cape Arid for a couple of nights.