Kiama – Day 4 & 5

Day 4 was a pretty lazy one. Unfortunately Harriet had to leave us. The rest of the day was spent reading, relaxing and taking Christy to the pool.

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Dinner was a quorn pastry with some sweet potato gems.

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Day 5 was a bit more action packed. It started with a yummy breakfast of scrambled eggs, baked beans & mushrooms.

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Then I set off on a walk.

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I didn’t realize that this was part of the Kiama Coast Walk, which I’ve had on my to-do for since it opened a few years ago.

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At the top of the steps I had my first ever sighting of a red belly black snake. Be sure to watch my vlog if you want to see the snake.

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These are the markers for the coastal walk.

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Looking back towards Easts Beach.

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This is over the little bridge and around to the next headland.

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I didn’t venture too far as I had no water and didn’t want to be gone too long.

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No long after I got back, Christy came back from plaster painting.

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I made Amy & I some quesadillas for lunch.

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Followed by a yummy cup of tea.

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The afternoon was spent relaxing and reading, with a trip to the pool as it was far to windy for the beach. In fact a huge part of  a tree only just missed falling on Christy & I on our way to the pool.

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Really impressed with this Australian Women’s Fitness mag.

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An hour or so later we headed back to the van.

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This is what was left of the tree, about half came down.

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We had amazing sunset. I had to keep going back outside as it kept getting better and better.

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Tonights dinner was a stirfry.

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Kiama – Day 3

It was a very low key day today. We were visited by some ducks…

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There was a smoothie & reading.

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And a trip into Kiama to get some groceries.

 

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All the girls all got tattoos….

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There was a trip to the beach…

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I tried to get a photo of this surfer looking out to sea…. only to realize he’s looking me wondering why on earth I’m taking a photo of him :-).

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After the beach we headed to the pool, where Christy had a swim (the other girls had gone back earlier).

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The rest of the day was spent relaxing and we enjoyed some pasta with a tomato sauce & garlic bread for dinner.

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If you want to see more you can always check out my vlogs from the week. Here’s the one for today.

 

Kiama – Day 2

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After a not very good nights sleep I woke up around 5.3oam. It was pretty chilly so I watched some youtube in bed (with a cup of tea of course) for a while before moving into the other part of the van, when my back was too sore to stay in bed any more. I also decided to see if I could upload a video – do you see the time? This would take me 15 hrs to upload at home, and about 4 hrs for Kevin at work. Crazy!!!! But good for now. Might need to move to Kiama because they have the NBN. ie. great internet that we’re not longer getting :-(.

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Eventually everyone woke up and Pop arrived to fix some plumbing issues (luckily we’re close to home). The girls played some cards.

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And mid-morning we all headed to the beach.

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The girls went for a swim while I soaked up some rays and took in the magic that is East Beach.

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Christy & I stayed at the beach longer than the girls. But we left when it started to get too windy and headed to the pool, which Christy said was lot warmer than the ocean.

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It remained a crazy, windy afternoon. But that did provide us with stunning skies.

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We had lunch, lazed about and later in the day Christy & I went for an explore around the park.

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Well, actually Christy took the opportunity to practice riding her penny board. It’s pretty flat here and the cars drive slow.

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Dinner tonight was very yummy nachos….

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then some card playing.

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Kiama – Day 1

Today we finished packing Nan & Pop’s van and headed off down the coast. A very quick 30mins later and we had arrived at our destination – Kiama.

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where we will spend the next week in the caravan.

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Not a bad view to wake up to…mind you it’s not quite as good as other times we’ve stayed here….

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Once the van was all set up, I prepared some make your own rolls for lunch.

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Since Nan & Pop were still here and we only 4 chairs, the girls ate inside.

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I don’t often have white rolls, so this was nice for a change.

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Pop made a few more adjustments, then they headed home. We got settled into our little home away from home.

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Gee, it only took a few hours before we had the lived in look ….

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Amy and Harriet are sleeping in a tent under our awning.

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Very late in the day the girls went to the beach for a swim. Mad things. It was pretty cool by this stage.

 

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Dinner tonight was Mac ‘n’ cheese, which was fun trying to make since there are no big pots in the van.

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Christy went to watch the family movie, Amy & Harriet watched something on Amy’s laptop. I puttered around online, since I was able to buy a weeks internet access for just $50.