Although the bus renovations are not complete, on Saturday we set up camp at Lake Hindmarsh for the night with the inlaws and their caravans. Not too far from home, a short 15kms down the road lol.
The lake is just lovely. It's Victoria largest natural freshwater lake, around 22km long and about 11km wide and for the past 10 years it's been dry. When the floods went through late last year and earlier this year the lake was revived and tourism skyrocketed. Over Easter alone, more than 800 campers took advantage of the semi-secluded campsites. Gosh, i sound like a tourism brochure hey lol Unfortunately the water is evapourating with all these glorious Autumn days we're having, so rain would be muchly appreciated. My kiddies walked for miles out in the lake and the water only just reached the shortest childs waist!
Anyways, we set up camp which was a matter of parking the bus, plugging the power cord in, making the beds and turing the kettle on for morning tea :D
I didn't get any photo's of the inside of the bus set up for the night. I was too busy being snap happy outside and enjoying the down time. I can say though, the beds were comfortable, it was warm, everyone slept well, everything works well. We have a list of items that need to be permanantly put in the bus and possibly some stabalizing legs at the back as the bus wobbles a bit when walking in it but this is only a slight problem when someone gets up during the night. Being a light sleeper doesn't help lol
We had an enjoyable time paddling, pretending to fish, sitting round the campfire, attempting to play the guitar and sing and having a catch up with my inlaws.
All in all it was a good camp out. Looking forward to going somewhere further for more than 1 night :)
Until next time
~x~
The lake is just lovely. It's Victoria largest natural freshwater lake, around 22km long and about 11km wide and for the past 10 years it's been dry. When the floods went through late last year and earlier this year the lake was revived and tourism skyrocketed. Over Easter alone, more than 800 campers took advantage of the semi-secluded campsites. Gosh, i sound like a tourism brochure hey lol Unfortunately the water is evapourating with all these glorious Autumn days we're having, so rain would be muchly appreciated. My kiddies walked for miles out in the lake and the water only just reached the shortest childs waist!
Anyways, we set up camp which was a matter of parking the bus, plugging the power cord in, making the beds and turing the kettle on for morning tea :D
I didn't get any photo's of the inside of the bus set up for the night. I was too busy being snap happy outside and enjoying the down time. I can say though, the beds were comfortable, it was warm, everyone slept well, everything works well. We have a list of items that need to be permanantly put in the bus and possibly some stabalizing legs at the back as the bus wobbles a bit when walking in it but this is only a slight problem when someone gets up during the night. Being a light sleeper doesn't help lol
We had an enjoyable time paddling, pretending to fish, sitting round the campfire, attempting to play the guitar and sing and having a catch up with my inlaws.
All in all it was a good camp out. Looking forward to going somewhere further for more than 1 night :)
Until next time
~x~
All set up
The view from my bed. Lovely :D
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