Road Trip Day 1

Finally, after having to postpone our road trip, we were on our way. Yippee!  We love road trips and plan them many months out.  This trip takes us to visit our son and DIL in Gundiah, my mum in Toowoomba, my sister in Beaudesert, Woolgoolga for a couple of changes to our camper and finally to Fraser Island for a few days.  Along the way we hope to drop in on several friends.

Today we set sail from home at 7.30 am.  We had some stops to make in Cairns as we passed through and also a drop off in Townsville.  These couple of jobs delayed us more than we thought and after stopping in Innisfail for an early lunch, we didn’t arrive at our destination, Alva Beach – east of Ayr - until after 5.00 pm. 

We are staying at the Alva Beach Tourist Park and it is incredibly clean and well loved.  We drove past a very inviting swimming pool on the way to our spot but it was really too late to go for as swim.  We quickly set up the camper, that takes us no time at all, and we were sitting back and enjoying a cool drink by 5.30 pm. 

In an effort to continue our healthy eating habits I have packed more food than usual and hope to cook the majority of meals while we are away.

Today for lunch we had salad sandwiches on rye sourdough with a healthy cake (that I had made before we left) as our sweet treat.  For dinner I cooked Jamie Olivers Shakin’ Ginger Beef with Bok Choy.  This has become a firm favourite.  We were in bed by 8.30 pm as we have a big travel day tomorrow.

Before we left Alva Beach we took a walk along the foreshore.  The council are to be congratulated on the area.  The picnic area with its manicured lawns would be the perfect spot to be on a hot day.  We walked back along the beach that was very narrow because of the high tide.  We could hear the pounding of surf in the distance and it seems that where we were walking was not actually the beach but Alva Creek.  The surf was the other side of a rather large sandbar.  If you had a boat it would have been interesting to go there.  Anyway, we only have a kayak so that trip was not going to happen. 

Alva Creek (not the Pacific Ocean!)

A good man!

Hitting the sand dunes

Storm brewing as we headed along the beach

Alva Beach foreshore area.  So lovely.

You can just see the waves breaking past the sand bar