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Friday, 1 March 2013

204 - What Is It With The Weather

The bride after four weeks of disgusting weather

(Beginning of whinge) Totally over mini cyclones, gale force winds that would blow a drovers’  dog off it’s chain, torrential rain, and the wet and soggy everything. The Val is soaked inside, due to a common design fault when it rains, the RetroLiner creaking continually to the blow of the wind, the bride is bored and keep on saying “feeeeeeeeeeeeerk this caravanning caper,  and I have enough of fighting with the elements.( End of whinge)
  
Basically since we left Camira end January, we have had only one week, the first week at Brunswick Heads that was reasonable. However, in saying that, a lot of the time was overcast, windy and generally unpleasant. So as I said at the end of the last post  “stand by for Brunswick 2”, well guess what,  for the second week we were just holed up in the RetroLiner, experiencing a mini cyclone, for nine days may I add, so an update would have been a waste of time.
 
The grandess at the Penguin exibit

We bit the bullet at the end of this miserable week, as we needed to go back to the Gold Coast,  to catch up with our son Micheal, his wife Haylee, plus the two grandess, Brodie and Shaylah. They had driven down from Cairns. So we packed up from Brunswick Heads in the continuing cyclonic conditions, and headed north to the Gold Coast, and guess what; we arrived in the same conditions we left Brunswick Heads. So we set up in the cyclonic conditions again……..OVER IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Your'n in the front Pop, so you can get wet.
 
For the week we were there, total disaster weather wise. We did catch up with the kidz for the odd BBQ, a day at Sea World (looking tired these days) and was shouted a buffet dinner at Sea World Nara Resort.....Thanks Mike and Hayley
 
Found this big mumma swimming in the flooded caravan park
We are now at the Iluka Riverside Tourist Park, and you know what, it is still pissing down with rain and blowing a feeeeerk’n gale. OVER IT BIG TIME AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!