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So glad you have found us. We are a nomadic family of 9 travelling Australia with our six daughters, and our one son and forever missing our precious daughter Serenity who went to be with Jesus at 13 hours old on 12 March 2011. Her short life has changed our lives forever! As we travel we perform at shows, festivals and fundraisers with our dogs, help out on farms and also sell handmade woodcraft, dog collars, leads and capes. We are also doTERRA wellness advocates. Follow our joys and trials here.

Tuesday 28 August 2012

Bluewater

After spending a great 10 days with relations (Sarah’s family) in Townsville where we swam, walked on the beach, ice skated and talked and talked and talked some more we are now regrouping as a family at the Bluewater free camp about 30km’s North of Townsville.
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The Children
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The Water Park on the Strand is a wonderful place, free and fun!  There are toilets and changing rooms and free BBQ facilities all on the Townsville foreshore!
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The highlight of the water park is the big bucket that fills with water and then tips onto a roof then cascades down onto unsuspecting children!  Our girls like to watch it fill with water then run and hide while yelling “The buckets tipping!!”
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We also visited Parrallend Beach where between gates 8 and 9 you can run your dogs off lead.  It’s not a patrolled beach so the kids only paddled close to the shore while keeping watch for Saltwater Crocodiles and Box Jellyfish!  The Jellyfish (Stingers as they call them here) are most active between November to March but you do get rogue ones that are around at other times.
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The Warrina Ice Skating Rink was a lot of fun.  None of our children had skated before so it was great to have cousins to show them how it was done then help them do it.
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Bluewater free camp has some basic facilities like, toilets and an outdoor cold shower.  For the children there is a playground and a river for swimming.  The girls and Jireh have spent a lot of time today enjoying the playground and the river!  After dinner they went back out for more playing in the cool of the evening!
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Morning photo’s
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Night photo’s
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1 comment:

  1. Looks like you all had heaps of fun! Love your photos - especially the ones where they are at the beach!

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