Lake Dyer - Bill Gunn Dam

Lake Dyer / Bill Gunn dam is situated only about an hour away from home and is a gem of a spot for a weekend getaway. So much so, I'm a little reluctant to tell any more people about it! (so feel free to skip this post and move onto the next one)

Beautiful Lake Dyer

Yamba - Big 4 Saltwater

School was out in Qld (but not in NSW) so we thought we'd take advantage of this by crossing the border for 5 days at the Big 4 Saltwater @ Yamba. Big 4 Saltwater is situated 10 minutes outside of Yamba on the NSW north coast. Visit their website for more info.

My mouth's been watering thinking of the fresh tasty prawns we're going to get in Yamba, so you can imagine my excitement when we reached the northern rivers area and I was presented with this...

You want prawn? You got PRAWN

Sandy Creek Campin'

A pupil free day gave us the next opportunity to use the van. The destination of choice was Sandy Creek Campin'. What particularly swayed us to this location was the flat rate for two nights of camping ($65) plus the allowance of fires and pets.

Tree swings were a nice touch

Fraser Island 2013

This is the trip we've been looking forward to for the last 12 months. We decided to buy the van after a 7 day camping trip at Central Station in 2012. At that stage a camper trailer was our weapon of choice, and while it did the job we were looking for something where we spent less time setting up and more time enjoying our location. One of the reasons we chose the Expanda was we were comfortable it would be up to a trip to Fraser.

The Maheno

Levuka

The June long weekend was coming up so it was time to get the van out again and try a bit of winter camping. We teamed up with a couple of other families and headed for a weekend off the grid, camping at Levuka.

Levuka

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