Bargara - 11th to 17th March

We had a bright sunny day for check-in and set-up at Bargara Beach CP. The following three days were windy and wet. This weather just happened to co-incide with a surf carnival on the beach directly across the road from the CP. As you would probably guess, it was almost a capacity house here in the park over the weekend. By Monday night we were the only ones camped in an area similar to a football oval. Sunday we decided to take a drive around the local area, taking in Burnett Heads, Bundaberg, Elliott Heads, Coral Cove and Innes Park, completing the circuit back here at Bargara. Monday and Tuesday the weather was mostly fine and sunny with the seas abating and only occasional rain showers. Wednesday the showers have increased, this seems to indicate a rather wet breaking of camp in the morning. We have a small green frog living in our annex. He/she seems quite happy residing with us. One of it's mates also took up residence in Jude's sun hat. Our week's stay here has been very pleasant with very few bitey bugs. The only downside, and this is not confined to only here, is Lizzie wanting to get out of the van to pee on the grass at 3:30am each morning. Lizzie would also like her brekky on coming back inside, but that doesn't happen!!

It's hard to believe, but we have been on the road/living in our little caravan for six months now. We have managed very well with our limited space, even during the rainy days, fortunately there weren't too many of those! We have found out that we are carrying too much baggage with us, so the next trip we will be better prepared. So, we are back to Hervey Bay tomorrow and that marks the end of this particular trip around the country. There will not be any further entries to this blog until we hit the bitumen again and we have no notion of when that will happen. Hope you have found our travel notes and photos entertaining.

I wanted to take photos in the morning when it was sunny and high tide but my camera battery was discharged. Now I can only offer you these shots, dull and low tide. This is Neilsen Park Beach which hosted the surf carnival.

This is Kelly's Beach, the most southern beach at Bargara. Looking north towards the town area.

Kelly's beach looking south from the town area. There is a lot of black rock along the beach front here, it is from a lava flow from a nearby volcano about one million years ago.

Bargara Village with accommodation, cafes, restaurants and gift shops. There is a shopping plaza about one km from here.

Across the Esplanade from the Village precinct is a picnic and kids play area. The structure the kids are playing on is actually a very large turtle.

Adjacent to the kids play area is this board walk and extension to the picnic area. There is usually people everywhere here but the inclement weather has sent them to the cafes. In the far distance is Kelly's Beach.