Off to the Gong

This morning was a picture perfect cloudless day at one degree celsius when we started to load up and get moving. On the road by 8:30am we had visions of going up the coast road to the Gong rather than via Canberra given when we lived here Nat used to rep the area and I personally never made it past Sussex Inlet. It was to be a longer journey, but the scenery much more enjoyable.

The weather continued eastward and we lunched at Narooma - which is postcard worthy due to the blueness of the water. It resembled the colour of Ningaloo Station which is a big call and we could have been eating our staple ham/cheese/tomato sangas in worse places, that is for sure.

Northward through places such as Mogo, Mollymook, Batemans Bay & Ulladulla, the descriptions Nat had always given me turned into reality and it really was a nice drive.

We hit Nowra and unfortunately all of the Sydney traffic heading north after the long weekend. What normally would be 45mins to the Gong took us 2.5hrs. Needless to say the patience was wearing thin.

The caravan park of choice was Leisurecoast Holiday Park, which was reasonably priced and our site right on the beach. Good amenities with baths for the boys, 2 x complimentary coffees, hire bikes, playground & a heated 25m pool. The parks just keep getting better. We set up in record time to the amazement of the tenters either side of us, and jumped straight back in the car!!!!

We had made plans with good friends of ours Paul & Allison & their 3 boys Tristin, Marcus & Phoenix to have dinner at their place but the delay made us quite late. Always a guaranteed great feed at Allison's so we were looking forward to getting our fix....and she didn't disappoint as always....just quietly I think she loves to look after us because we are so complimentary of her cooking and she digs that I don't hold back on volumetric ingestion.

The boys had a great time playing with the other boys and enjoyed it immensely due to the copious amounts of toys that are accumulated with 3 sons over the years.

We expected there to be drama when we decided to go but there were none, they really are starting to "get it" now and this pleases us greatly. 9:30pm exit normally means feral times tomorrow, we will have to wait and see...

Jase.