Jenna and her best friend Jet

This isn't really anything to do with our travels but I wanted to share it with you all.

How wonderful it is to see a child and her pet and the bond they share.

Sharon bought a German Shepherd pup (15 months old) from the police service as he didn't quite make the mark to become a police dog. She named him Jet !! for his obvious colouring :)

And the wonderful news is that he has bonded so well with Jenna my granddaughter...so much so she is never far away from his sight..they play hide and seek, and Jenna has to hide, while Sharon has to hold Jet back on the lead as he goes crazy when Jenna goes out of sight, once Jenna has hidden Jet is off the lead and finds her... he tracks her in seconds :) That's the police dog breeding I guess :)

They play on the trampoline together, when ever she is on it... he gets up there and they bounce together, or just relax and enjoy each others company...



And when Jenna is in the pool ... he has to be in there watching over her to make sure she is safe !!! even to the extent of putting his head under water while she swims ..

Its nice to know I have someone watching over her at all times...

21 October 2011 Friday

Well the warm weather has arrived it was a lovely warm day today....


John started off washing the car and I did some washing...

Then John wanted to go for a ride to Bulli Beach to go and see his late wife Adell memorial where her ashes were scattered, he was dosappointed to find the plaque he left there was no where to be seen after a long search he decided it was well and truely buried under all the brush now...

20th October 2011 Thursday

Very windy today but the sun is warm...


We had a nice walk on the beach and tried to capture the huge waves rolling in and the massive water spray off the rocks...


The beach stretches for miles..

Not many surfers out there today... because its rough but the waves are huge...

AS the day went on the waves got bigger I spent hours out side trying to get the best shot..here are some of them...

Could watch them for ever !!!

We finished off the evening having dinner with Pat & Glen to celebrate their birthdays

19th October 2011 Wednesday

Who spotted the mistake in the last blog !!!!! hummm 2007 indeed....

Since being at Coledale the weather has been magic, and the good thing is we have the sea breeze to keep the temp bearable....

Woke to a beautiful sunrise this morning...

John pitched the sun tent on the beach in front of us today and we spent a nice morning down on the beach enjoying the sun...

It was nice to be able to just walk back to the RV make coffee and bring it back to the beach..thanks darling :)

Later I went for a walk along the beach to try and catch some of the waves breaking on the rocks....lots of blue bottle washed up on the beach today...



John the only one on the beach relaxing ...

17th October 2007 Monday

Packed up and ready to go.... so we thought... John turned on the engine to totally flat batteries...so we had to go ringing around for 2 new batteries...typical just before we hand it over and its still costing us money...They weren't the normal type batteries either so we had to do some searching.. but lucky for us we found someone with 2..

Once fitted we were up and running ready to hit the road again ... only going 13 kl up the road to Coledale Beach just passed Austimer...beautiful spot...

We are just off the beach and beautiful views from the RV front window..

View front front window of RV...

Its a hard life but someone has to cope with it :)



15th October 2011 Saturday

We have not had the best weather this time while staying here at Wollongong... but it hasn't really mattered  as we have been busy making arrangements for our new motorhome...

And last night Wollongong had the most rain than anywhere 100mls over night we had torrential rain alllllllll night....

But woke up too a lovely morning !!!! we had to go and do a few things at the shops then came home and went for a lovely  long walk on the beach !!!!

Tomorrow is pack-up day as we leave here on Monday morning...

Another " Sea Change"

John and I have been together 3 years next month and the amount of changes we have made in our lives since then is amazing...from changing caravans to changing cars to suit the caravans.. etc etc...But the biggest move of all I think was John choosing to sell his home and we hit the road in a Winnebago....

We have been on the road now for 15 months and loving every minute of it...

When we were in Camden last Christmas we met too new friends Michael and Lois who had a 5th Wheeler motor home..this was the first time John and I had ever been in side one of those..and we really liked it...but we had our lovely Winnebago and was very happy with what we had.... over the last few months we have been talking about the 5th Wheelers again.. and looking at them on line....but not thinking any more of it.

A couple of weeks ago... while at Camden someone knocked on our door, and was enquiring about the Winnebago as they were interested in buying one and wanted to have a look around ours and ask a few question etc....

I don't know how it all happened but we had an offer from them... too good to refuse... and yes we sold the Winnebago !!!!!!!!!!! 

I know your all going to be reading this with your jaw dropped and mouth wide open.. and saying wow why would they do that !!!!

Well after many discussion's and research.. we decided we wanted to buy a NEW motorhome,  and we have decided to go for a 5th Wheeler this time....We have bought a Crossroad Cruiser 32 footer ( 10.4 metres long ) with 4 slide outs... and hard to believe... but it has more room in it than the Winnebago, lovely L shaped kitchen...larger bathroom ... and lots lots more... We are having it custom made in side to our specifications and John gets a brand new big truck to tow it ...and all this with a nice profit at the end of it...

The is the motorhome in the yard at Gympie being fitted out for us.

8th October 2011 Saturday

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY HALEY"

Well it rained again all night !!! its rained every day since we got here...mainly at night though so that's ok... but not to worry, we have managed to get our walks in on the beach....

Nice to have the beach all to your self ...

The life guards were patrolling the beach but no one was game enough to go in the water except one of course ... always one mad fool !!!

The wind was cool and it looked very bleak over the mountain...

But who cares !!!!