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

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