We were hoping for a smooth crossing but upon boarding the crew ask us if we new how to disable the car alarm as vehicles fitted with motion sensors the alarms go off in rough seas. As we had never had the need before to disable the alarm we left the Paj unlocked overnight, we have since read up and hopefully will know what to do in future. The Captain advised that we should expect a rough crossing as there were 40 knot winds and 3-4 metre swells. Shortly after passing through the heads we could certainly feel that we were in for a doozie, we have been lucky for the previous 10 years so it was about time we experienced a rough one. It wasn't too bad we managed a glass a wine and to watch the footy game then it was off to bed. Laying in the bed I would feel weightless as we went down the wave then you feel a pounding as the bow of the boat went into the next wave then up we would go, I thought I would not get a lot of sleep but was surprised that I had a fairly good nights sleep.
We arrived in Melbourne Sunday morning to lovely clear skies and and headed north,we had planned to travel around 600 klms a day and we were really enjoying the warmer weather we were experiencing along the way. Our first overnight stop was at West Wylong in NSW, the next day we travelled further north to one of our favourite stops Moree where we booked in for two nights so we had time to enjoy time in the thermal pools. Leaving the Newell Hwy we headed towards Toowoomba and out to the Bruce Hwy and onto our next planned stop Cooroy, on the Sunshine Coast, where we caught up with our friends Alison and David. We enjoyed a lovely night out with them at a local restaurant, leaving the next day on our last leg to Tannum Sands.
We have spent the last 10 days staying with Anita and Jason and it has been lovely to once again spend time with the Olivia and Archie and be able to see what they are up to. It was so cute to see Archie playing soccer, brought a tear to our eyes bringing back memories of when Jase and his mates were young little soccer players.
It is seven months since we parked the van beside Jason's house so we needed to give it the once over to make sure all was ok before we head off towards Cairns. One of things we did was cull some of our clothing as we had left all our clothes in the van from last year, then we were back at Christmas and of course we needed clothes travelling up, managed to leave a whole suitcase full at Jason's that we will collect before heading home in September.
Yesterday we spent the day out in Jason's new boat hoping to catch at least a couple of nice Coral Trout only to come home empty handed the only fish we caught were undersized and had to be thrown back. At least we had a lovely day out on the water and had lovely roast meat for Dinner, maybe our next visit we will get a feed of fish.
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| Lunch time Tocumal |
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| Lunch time Coonabarabran |
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| Enjoying the Thermal Pool |
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| Mothers Day in the park |
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