Carry On Camping Again

So we got this tent last week and since then we've been building up to using it. Nicole had a couple of days off so we thought what the hell, let's go back to Rainbow Beach and see if we can't get rained off again.

So we repeated the journey detail by detail, oh except that getting petrol was a bit of a problem... we wanted to go to a Coles Express as we've got some discount vouchers, but the Coles Express was closed for some reason, so half way up the Bruce we pulled in at a BP to find out their computers had crashed.... then we took a detour along Bribie Island Road because I thought I saw a sign, only there wasn't one, and the next one we say was a distributor... and the next one we saw was having computer problems... still we got some eventually. I was half expecting the card now to work!

Still we got there heventuallee at around 4pm and got cracking with building the tent. It was up within half an hour and all things considered not too stressful. Tiny was locked in the car after trying to chase some bush turkeys... only I left the window open... and of course it's always difficult putting up a tent for the first time.

By the time the tent was up dusk was fast approaching so we walked the dogs down on the beach and took note of the insects which were biting us. Nicole had brought some concoction called Mozzie Free which we drink in the morning which is supposed to make us repellent to insects. We topped up with roll-on repellent.

The sunset was very pleasant and as it got dark we went to the restaurant around the corner to repeat our unruly meal of last time.

After Eloise was in bed we sat outside and saw the brightest sky we've seen since the Great Barrier Reef. The sky was absolutely thick with stars.