Fishing on the Clyde River , Batemans Bay.

 The Crew - Jackson, Karen and Harry.

 The vessel of choice - the little red one, not the big one.

 Karen catches a leatherjacket with her first cast. It's a keeper.(and it tasted terrific)

 The leather jacket. The Fonz would have been happy with this one.

 Happy with the catch.

Jackson's bream, he let Pop handle the de-hooking.

We spent half the day fishing on the Clyde River, the guy who we hired the boat from gave us some good tips for fishing. 1. drift with the tide, don't anchor up. 2. Have your sinker down low and bring the hook a metre up the line, this worked a treat as we had 7 fish landed and heaps of bites.Two fish were keepers , the others were released. A super day on the river.

Broulee Beach.

 Jackson rides a wave to the beach.

 Lunch in the carpark.

The Boot Cafe.

Broulee Beach is the first surf beach we have dropped into. The beach is rather long and on this day it offered up some terrific waves for us to have some fun on. The car park Cafe had some culinary delights for the family, the peanut butter sandwiches were sensational and at a good price.

Mogo Zoo

 Check out this description of a certain animal we have all come across.

The setting for the day was Mogo Zoo. We were lucky enough to walk in when they were feeding the Samatran Tiger. This was pretty cool to see the Tiger up close and busting for a bite. The zoo keeper played a neat trick, she tried to pat the tiger's paw whilst feeding it a chicken neck. The Tiger let out out a humungous roar which scared the living daylights out of all the people in the front row. A few of them were seen heading for the loo soon after, to change their underpants!!!!!!!!! The Otters and the Meerkats were having an absolute ball. They have the best life. We are trying to come up with a theme song and a mascot for our trip. Any suggestions????? To date we have our mascot as a Lemur and the song "I like to move it." Cheers. Richard

Departure-Who loves the GONG?

Are we there yet??????

We made it to our first destination - Batemans Bay. The drive wasn't too long and the trip seemed to go by very quickly. We have set up camp and are having a swim at present. It was great to see many  of our friends prior to leaving, both at the pub on Saturday and during the week. We will post a few pictures. Cheers. Richard.

Preparing for the trip

The caravan and car are all packed with clothes, safety equipment and loads of school books for Jackson and Harry. We are all looking forward to the trip and the adventures that come our way.(Richard)