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Sunday, April 14, 2013

Flanagans via Kyogle (Bells Bay / Toonumbar Dam)

We decided (after much research) to try out a new camp ground called Bells Bay at Toonumbar Dam about 30k outside Kyogle. It involved a 3 hour drive through some very windy narrow roads to arrive at our planned destination.

We arrived in pitch black darkness to find a very small camp ground on the side of a hill with the only access to the dam via a narrow boat ramp - we think. We were expecting something very different. After a quick surveillance of our supposed home for the next 3 nights we decided to turn around and head back through the windy road all the way back to Flanagan Reserve.

Much to everyone's delight we were able to find Eagle Boys in Kyogle (they do Gluten free pizza) so with full tummy's we finally made our destination after 5 and a half hours.

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Hot chocolate warms us up in the morning

TeamBray Crazy Loz

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TeacherMum and CarBoy

Of course the standard breakfast was on the menu.

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Despite the showers on Saturday we all enjoyed sitting around the fire and going for a paddle in the boat.

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This baby possum had a bad day. After being rescued from this Skip bin he scurried up a tree. Only a few metres up the tree and it was attacked by a Kookaburra. The fight on the ground ended with the Possum biting the Kookaburra around the next until it flew off.

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Stuck in a Skip Bin

After a dismal failure at Easter we were determined to give the Pork Roast another try WHOAH AWESOME !!

TeamBray Roast Pork

Crackling anyone ?

TeamBray Roast Pork

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Crazy Loz ready to jump

Madi's turn - its cold in there !

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Australia Day II Flanagan Reserve

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They dubbed it Australia Day II so of course that meant it was going to rain. The storm followed us into camp and soon after setting up it was raining.

Amanda forgot her camera so all these pics came from the iPhone.

I managed to cook a simple dinner on the fire during a shower. Yep, this is Australia Day weather !

Cooking in the rain

It rained hard the whole night ... but we woke up to a perfect camp morning.

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And here is our first campfire breakfast for 2013

TeamBray Camp Breakfast

The Logan River was up again and there were plenty of lizards out looking for a feed.

TeamBray Wildlife Flanagan Reserve

We bumped into a family from our kids school. They were into Archery and we had a few shots. Good fun.

TeamBray Flanagan Reserve

Time for dinner - Roast Pork. We preheated the camp oven 10 minutes. In with the Hillmans Rolled Pork. Some coals underneath and some serious coals on top. 30 min later a quick look revealed crackling was gonna be good. Here's the finished product after 70 minutes.