Drifters Holiday Village - Kingscliffe

We were heading to Kingscliffe for the sister in-law's wedding so decided to make a weekend of it. The destination for our camp was Drifters Holiday Village.

Entrance to the CP

Murphy's Creek Escape

It's been longer than we would have liked, however the Easter school holidays have been the prompter for our next camping trip and the venue chosen was Murphy's Creek Escape. It's only an hour and half from our front door, yet from all reports, secluded enough to get away from it all.

A few of the locals

Bargara Beach Caravan Park

This almost feels like our first real use of the van. What I mean by that is the motivation for the previous couple of trips was "we have this van, we better use it". However this trip has been motivated by the desire to get away coupled with the ability to do so.

View to beach from northern end of park

James Sharp Memorial Park

It was time to head out on another trip with the van, so I knocked off early on Friday and we had the kids out of school by lunch time. We needed to detour via Coomera to collect the daughter from her break-up day at Dreamworld, then it was full steam ahead to Sharp Park.

Splish splashin'

The First Adventure - Big4 Tweed

We were ultra keen to get out in the Expanda at the first available opportunity. So even though two of the family were a little under the weather, and the weather itself was forecast to be a shocker - we weren't going to be stopped! We left Ipswich around 10am with the rain bucketing down and for the rest of the day it fluctuated between light drizzle to heavy downpour.

Bucketing down on the way out of Brissie

The First Mod

Tonight I picked up some LEDs for the van. That makes it officially the first mod! The type of LEDs used can be found here.

They were a little dearer than some of the alternatives on eBay, however the quality looks better and these guys were local so I could easily drop around for pickup. The light's a little brighter (not too bright) but I much prefer the whiter light.

Stace has been busy cleaning, so it's almost ready for packing for our night away this weekend...

Before & After Lighting

Bulbs slip straight into current T10 sockets

the van is in the house

We bought the van home on Wednesday evening. Eventually got it nestled into a spot in front of the garage - which was no easy feat. Big thanks to CH for helping to man-handle it into place!

Now time to start thinking about it's first night out which will hopefully be next weekend.

un-expanded

expanded (and buddy-fied)