Adventure in a van.: Week 21- Thursday 4th- Saturday 13th August

Wroonga Point ,QLD

Star Rating:★★★★

★=Full Star☆=Half a Star

Dad and Jackson caught a trevally, a coral trout and a tusk fish on the first day we were there...they were all yum but I think the trevally was my favorite! When we were fishing I nearly reeled in a huge fish but the line snapped! Whilst I had a break from fishing I saw lots of turtles and jumping fish! The next day we moved to a better spot that was right on a point, after we set up camp we went to EXPLORE! What happened when we went exploring was cool, but it was also funny and a bit of it was bad! This is what happened...when I first saw the sign for the Tip I was like 'What? There's a rubbish tip up here?' Then the next time I saw the sign for the Tip I said to Mum, 'Guess what Mum? There is a rubbish dump all the way up here!' Then she just laughed. Then it clicked in my mind. The sign meant the Tip of Cape York!! We went to the Tip and it was awesome. There was a great view. Afterwards we stopped at a small supermarket at Bamaga and I stayed in the car. When everyone returned with a bag or two of shopping and Dad opened the boot I heard a bang, then a strain of words that I should not repeat. I climbed out of the car to have a look and I saw that the back window was completely smashed. It turned out the shovel had slid out of its holder and when Dad had opened the boot the shovel had hit and smashed the back window. Luckily, with the tinting on the glass, it had not shattered everywhere, but Dad had to buy heaps of rolls of 'Gorilla' tape (Gorilla tape is super strong tape) to tape the window together. When we finally got back to camp (it was nearly 4pm) we saw our tent, except it didn't look like our tent. It looked like a weird twisted version of our tent. Because of the strong gusts of wind the front tent poles had collapsed and the whole tent looked crazy (we were able to fix it though). That afternoon Sam (we met him on Old Telegraph Track), Dad and Jackson caught two wolf herring and a big trevally. We had dinner with Sam and the fish made a delicious meal.

We went to the tip of the Cape! Its otherwise know as the most northern point in Australia!👇

On the way back from the Tip.👆

The views from the tip of Australia!👇

Walking through the shallows to cool of, it was boiling hot coming back from the Tip!👆

You can't read any of the signs up the Cape! They're all completely covered in stickers!

I got a fishing shirt at the Croc Tent (search it up!)......one that doesn't have fish on it!! I think it looks stupendous!👇

Alau Beach, QLD

Star Rating:★★★★☆

★=Full Star☆=Half a Star

What we did at Alau Beach:

Dad caught a Black Tipped Reef Shark on the first night we were there, it was so exiting to watch him pull it in!
We went on a long walk along the beach, we were boiling hot when we finished!
We had fun swimming in the pool.
We went for a drive to look at lots of WWII planes and relics.
The day we left we woke up and packed up early and left on a very long drive.....when we got to the Jardine River we had to wait forever for the ferry to cross! When we finally crossed it was boiling hot outside but Jackson and I got to sit in the comfy, air conditioned car on our iPads whilst everyone else had to stand outside sweltering! The rest of the drive went smoothly....NOT, it was full of horrid corrugations (grooves in the surface of a gravel road) but that night we got back to Archer River Road House and our luxurious caravan!

We fished on the beach at sunset, it was beautiful!

Dad caught a shark the first night we were at Alau Beach (we had beer battered flake* for dinner, YUM)! *flake=shark

It was fun jumping of the jetty at Seisia!

We went to see the jetty in Seisia, there was huge schools of bait fish!

Both of the nights we were at Alau Beach we brought the chairs down to the beach to watch the stunning sunsets (can you see the tree that is full of thongs found on the beach?).

The stunning sunset on the second night.👆

When we were at the caravan park the owners had heaps of dogs, Jackson and I named our favorite one Cheeky!

We went to see two crashed planes from WWII and this is one of them.👇

Fuel dumps from WWII. 👆

Weipa, QLD

Star Rating:★★★★★

★=Full Star☆=Half a Star

Weipa=fun! Even though we were only booked in for three nights at the Weipa Caravan Park we ended up staying for four nights because it was beautiful! We would have stayed more, but we were booked into a place called Adel's Grove (near Lawn Hill) so we had to keep moving. Whilst we were there Dad and Jackson had heaps of luck catching fish so now the weekly meal plan is this: Monday-fish, Tuesday-fish, Wednesday-fish, Thursday-fish, Friday-fish, Saturday-fish Sunday-meat...no, just kidding it's fish! We are now eating like kings (and queens), if they eat a lot of fish! When the boys were fishing, me and Mum spent the time they were gone relaxing back at camp (the boys always took the car) and working on our blogs. There was a pool at the caravan park and it was a cool (cool like cold) sanctuary compared to the scorching hot sun outside! It was the best when we jumped in. The other thing we did every night was we walked down to the beach (which was right in front of our camp), set up the chairs and watched the sun set on the sea....it was beautiful! One night we even drove down on the beach. For one full day we drove around to explore multiple beaches, the first one was called Red Beach and it had piles of historical cockle shell middens (they were huge piles). They were made thousands of years ago by the indigenous people from this area. The second beach we went to was called Bouchat Beach and from it you could see a small island called Sandfly Island, there was also some beautiful totem poles. The last (but not the least) beach we went to was called Pennefather and Mum and I lay on the beach and read whilst the boys scoured the the banks, fishing. By the time we were leaving there Dad and Jackson sadly had not caught anything that they could keep....but luckily some people that were camped there didn't have enough room in their freezer for all their fish (they had a boat) so they gave us 3 feeds of barramundi and 1 feed of salmon! Our time at Weipa was awesome!