Judds Lagoon

18th - 19th August

Waking up yesterday morning to absolutely perfect weather, albeit a little cold. Dylan had been hanging out to go fishing ever since we left home, so I granted the little fella his wish and set up a couple of lures and headed down to the lagoon. The water looked perfect, but it seemed the fish were either still asleep or on a special diet that didn't involve our lures, much to Dylan's dismay. Tyler wandered down a short time later and had a turn, but even his magic touch couldn't stir up the natives.
We got the WeberQ out for the first time on the trip last night, so I naturally fired it up to see how many fried eggs in bread we could shovel down in one breakfast sitting (bacon was still frozen, so my arteries had a little reprieve there..).... yep... ate too much!
A little later on I took Tyler and Dylan exploring through the bush land like the true campers we are, and spotted a good dozen wallabies as well as numerous other wildlife. The weather was amazing - sun shining, about 20 degrees....gee I am missing work... not!
It started to become overcast and windy late in the afternoon, so I gave up on the idea of another fishing attempt and even told the boys that we weren't having a fire and told the neighbouring van they could take the wood we collected earlier for their fire.
After having a few brews whilst kicking the footy with kids ( yep, that's true fatherly behaviour!), I decided that a fire would actually be a good idea, so I lit it up. I reckon I could feel the neighbouring van owners getting ready to throw their camp billy at me, because it was at that time I realised they hadn't bothered collecting any wood because I had offered ours to them.... oh well. (smirk)
Anyway.... It wasn't long before some port started flowing and not long afterwards that I called it a night. I reckon we were both crashed out before 9pm. Was a big day of doing nothing.
The park is constantly chattering with Kookaburras and other birds..... not enough to keep us awake tho.
Heading off to Emerald tomorrow to get a well deserved shower.

(Left Judds Lagoon at 7:50am, thanks to some smart packing the night before, and drove solidly until we stopped for lunch at Rolleston. Found a local playground that had about 10 caravans parked nearby with all the Grey Nomads sitting on the benches having lunch! - almost felt right at home, except for the fact that we actually had kids that wanted to expel some energy). Couldn't believe it when we got to Emerald and the caravan park we wanted to stay at only had 2 powered sites left! Nothing special on in town, this is just what it is like at this time of the year up here. We immediately rang our next 2 stops - Mackay and Airlie Beach to book in the next week...... Can't get into the first 2 park choices at Mackay !! What the???. Finally found a park that could fit us in....It had better be good or we are going to protest by not going - That'll teach them!