Denise and Barry's Caravan Travels: September 9, 2018

Thought it is about time I updated my blog! Well once again where has six weeks gone? We have spent a very social time with our Bargara friends at the Bargara Beach Caravan Park. What a change new management have made to the park, upgrading the sandy sites, pathways, garden maintenance, fresh paint and bench tops in the amenities. The staff are great with Ray organising entertainment, morning teas and pizza nights. There was also the fresh veggie man and the seafood guy that came into the park three days a week, the fresh Ocean King Prawns have been delicious, have certainly made little piggies of ourselves on them.

Wednesday night has been our regular night at the RSL for their seniors meal good value for $7.95, we also had a great Christmas in July the first week we arrived with the cooking of a whole pig on the spit, Ray has said he will get a bigger one for next year. We have also been playing bowls regularly, have adapted well to the faster rinks not sure how we will handle the heavy greens back home. Baz wasn’t happy when we drew guys with the cheating sticks (bowling arms), just happened that we had to play them twice one week, bloody dead eye dicks. We maintained our regular walks down to Bargara’s business hub each day if we didn’t manage it during the day we would walk of a night. This year we have had many swims at the beach even Baz surprised me coming in on a number of occasions.

A highlight this year was my trip down to Brisbane to the Pink Concert and meeting Tania, Greg, Sham and Paul leaving Baz at Bargara for a few peaceful days without me. I caught the Tilt Train from Bundaberg to Brisbane which takes 4.5 hours not a bad way to travel and with the Seniors discount you only pay half price. The worst part was the Uber driver that picked me up from the train station, as he had pulled up on a pedestrian crossing he got fined and was clearly very unhappy ended up dropping me 1 klm from my accomodation. Thank goodness for google maps as I had no idea where I was, struggling with my bag (no wheels) in the uphill incline of Adelaide Street I eventually made it to the Minolta rather red faced and sweaty. The concert was amazing, Pink is certainly a pocket rocket with her amazing aerial acrobatics and high energy as she impresses with her vocal ability. Having the chance to celebrate Tan’s Birthday was a bonus loved my time down in Brisbane with her, the days went much too quickly. It was a tearful farewell at the train station when it was time for me to leave, it will only be 5 weeks to I see her again.

Fathers Day we travelled up to 1770 to meet Jason, Neat and the grandkids along with Neat’s parents. 1770 is approximately halfway between Tannum Sands where Jason lives and Bargara where we love to spend six weeks every year. Lunch was fresh prawns and a BBQ, then later spending an enjoyable time swimming and playing on the beach a lovely relaxing day.

Our last week at Bargara slipped by much too quickly with the caravan park clearing out of the regulars with lots of goodbyes and all saying that we will hopefully see each other again next year. We pulled out of Bargara on Friday along with 50 other vans all going our seperate ways, most of them probably heading south. We are heading up to Agnes Waters near 1770 for five nights then onto Tannum Sands to look after the grandkids for a couple of days. Jason and Neat are taking the opportunity to have a night away without kids!