Ross’s Samsung Galaxy 3 shit the biscuit this afternoon. Stupid thing  wont turn on. Luckily before the trip Ross upgraded the SD card and changed the phone settings to save all the pics to the SD card, otherwise all our holiday pics and vids would be lost. So don’t bother trying to contact Ross …… He’s both really pissed off, and doesn’t have a phone. Barb will be left to complete the blog ….. So don’t bother checking back. Unlikely to be anything added after this. Ha

Annastriana came to visit last night at around dinner time and brought along her little sister, Annabella. Annabella had very pronounced googly eyes, and didn’t speak at all, kind of just stared at us in an uncomfortable silence. Even prompted for her name or age couldn’t extract a word. Daniel quietly tolerated her presence for while. He then looked at her, and after a few pregnant moments casually said “She looks like a zombie”. Quite perceptive and hard to argue Ross thought …. she did in fact look more than a little like what we expect a zombie could look like. Ross had [ ... ]

WIth the use of his eagle eye, Ross was lucky enough to find this gem; Country Songs For My Ute, and is was the critically acclaimed original version … Volume 1 Ross immediately purloined it, which will turn the long dull drive home into an event filled with splendor and foot tapping Ross kept is as a surprise and Barb was so excited, she was unable to articulate any kind of response what so ever. Such is the power of Country Songs For My Ute.  The hunt continues for Volume 2.

Nothing will come between us and our obsession with all things BBQ. When you need a gourmet ham and cheese toastie and the BBQ just ain’t cutting the mustard against mother natures life taking fury at its absolute worst (a breeze and drizzle), you can’t take Mohamed to the mountain ….. then that damned mountain comes to Mohamed. Simply move the entire BBQ apparatus inside the camper. It may have set off the smoke alarm and the carbon dioxide alarm ….. but we refuse to be diverted Yum yum … toasties all round

Daniel turns 7 today. Woo hoo Although Barb made the excusable error if mentioning to Daniel that he was born at 6.22pm …… So according to Daniel his birthday is 6.22 tonight. Annastriana wished Daniel a happy birthday this morning, and Daniel corrected her …. not till 6.22pm. Annastriana also made Daniel a pet rock for his birthday at the park kids club Daniel has been overloaded with birthday presents … maybe not as good as the pet rock, but Ross and Barb did their spoiling best. MGP Pro scooter Power Wing scooter Xbox 360 3 Xbox games Speed controller Micro Challenger race track Harmonica Clothes and shoes (although Ross says clothes never [ ... ]

We’ve had so many BBQs, Safeway is running a promotion across the country to celebrate our relentless pursuit of all things BBQ We’ve had many more “unreported” BBQs and we also have a fridge full of BBQ like condiments just waiting for another fry up. At Safeway stocking up on our BBQ supplies, our new found love of the humble BBQ almost took a huge hit when Ross seen the life size cardboard cutout of the extra sized Safeway guy advertising BBQ steak. Then Ross looked a little closer and seen the name tag ….. how unfortunate.

Daniel’s got another lady friend who pops by. Ross told Daniel “Keep your eye on the girls mate. Girls can be dangerous” Daniel maybe misunderstood …. making sure he has his helmet on when they come-a-calling. Maybe not quite what Ross meant, but hey you can’t be too careful.

Some people watch the Tour de France and buy a bike, others watch Bathurst and book a hot lap thinking they too are potential race drivers. We watched the Australian Open and ….. booked the tennis court this morning. We discovered Daniel grunts when he hits the ball like a real tennis player, which puts him infinitely closer to a real tennis player then either of his parents. That didn’t stop Ross or Barb truly believing they were on centre court at Rod Laver. They just couldn’t understand why they only had one ball boy ….. who refused to get the balls.

Daniel in bed, booze flowing, sitting outside watching the tennis on Foxtel, with the rolling surf rumbling in the background. Did I mention the booze …… Note the half full wine glass in the pic …. Barb must be away fighting aliens or the Taliban, because its rare to see her glass left on the table half full !!!!

Yesterday Daniel befriended a young lady named  Annastriana, not Anna, Annastriana thankyou. She was 5 and a little bit full on. She ended up in our camper with Daniel playing with Daniel and his toys. Ross was outside cooking yet another BBQ when a big Greek looking dude came hollowing “Annastriana” down the road. Barb had checked with her that her parents knew where she was which she insisted the parents did. Ross yelled out and the guy came over none too happy and carted the young lady off with much yelling. Tonight, Barb and Daniel were having a shower and a child [ ... ]

Ross checked Google Earth to find a spot to launch the ship at The Entrance into Tuggerah Lake and found a ramp and a couple of other possibilities. With the tides already worked out, that left some time for a relaxing nice skinny mocca decaf half shot latte at the park kiosk. Waiting for the coffee in the caravan park kiosk Ross spied two nuggets of info, a ying and a yang, one good and one bad. Good. The ying. The kiosk has a quality fried food  smorgasbord of yak fat menu items including an $8 steak sandwich. Although they lost the gold [ ... ]

My Location@15:19,21/1 The Entrance NSW 2261, Australia http://m.google.co.uk/u/m/wPr7hy

It’s been raining most of the day. (Sun) We decided to stay at the Tuggerah Westfield,  which is enormous gave some lunch and then take Daniel to see Wreck It Ralph which was a pretty movie. Daniel made a friend and she came to the camper … although she told us her parents knew where she was, they in fact had no idea. We think she may be grounded for life

Ross has scoured every town and city on the east coast to find Daniel a blues harp in the right key. Sitting in the Westfield budget barber Barb  spied a music shop next door. They had just what Dr Jazz ordered Daniel was very impressed It also helped to get him into this chair

Tuggerah Westfield ….. Dan Murphy’s …. brilliant.  How did Southland get it so so wrong. Tiny sushi for the tiny man Barb bought Daniel some clothes in Port Macquarie and he hasn’t had the chance to wear the jacket because it’s been too warm. Now at Bataeu Bay with cooler temperatures Daniel tried on his new jacket Cool. Although he’s not allowed to wear it out at the caravan park … all the little kids will have nightmares. Woo hoo

ALERT ALERT ALERT We lost Foxtel this morning. A catastrophic disaster of cataclysmic proportions. Ross donned his scientist lab suit, his huge tool box, his comprehensive repair manual, headed out to brave the dangerous drizzle and set about containing the damage without, a single thought for his own welfare. It was only through Ross’s single minded determination and the application of incredible skill that Foxtel was returned after about an hour. There’s a saying …. it’s always the last place you look. So Ross decided to start at the last place thinking that would be the smartest and fastest resolution. Turned out the [ ... ]

It been drizzling almost non stop since we arrived here at the Bataeu Bay Blue Lagoon Resort. It relatively mild and there’s no wind,  praise the gods.   Wind is far far worse than rain. With the rain, we were all confined to barracks last night, and were all a little depressed .. although Daniel did escape a few times Ross’s spirits lifted slightly later in the evening when the Lance Armstrong interview was broadcast in its entirety on Foxtel.  He couldn’t have care less if there was a tornado outside. Ross has few idols ….. and Lance is possibly the only one. [ ... ]

Ross intends to fish the Tuggerah Lake and entrance. Through extensive research Ross has discovered the location is notoriously difficult to catch fish. An early establish defence is the best defence, so with that in mind Ross has copy and pasted a report from Marinews, Australia’s premier boating and fishing website to muzzle all the distant know it all’s. It’s important that no-one be critical. Ross is developing a complex about the slightly lower then expected fishing results thus far. We did have fish abduction chips last week … that sort of squares things up

It’s not too often that Ross and Barb get a view from bed. Unfortunately having the bed that’s over the “A” frame usually means facing the road, and the view is rarely in that direction. At Bataeu Bay our site is parallel to the beach and we can see the water between the cabins. Arriving here at about 3pm from Port Mcquarie it’s drizzly and about 25deg.  The manager said it was it was 45deg here yesterday with a hot westerly blowing off shore. People hid in their aircon’d vans and those without aircon either escaped to shopping centres or struggled [ ... ]

This is all that is left of the once mighty Leyland Brothers World … the glorious theme park rivaled only by Disneyland. The expanding foam Ayres Rock replica sits alone, the rest of Leyland Brothers World has long gone to god. With it heyday long behind it, its a sad reminder of too much debt …. and not enough revenue … and possibly overestimating your own popularity. The monument built by the nations national treasures, Mick and Mal has been reduced to this …. a United fuel stop in the middle sh$t F@ck nowhere. The upside is the toilet door has pictures [ ... ]