Camping in Australia has its own sedating effects on even the sharpest of minds.
My friends with their 2 boys and my 3 rowdy children and myself, spent 3 days at Harvey Bay, camping at the Scarness Caravan Park. My friends in their self-contained 8 seater caravan and the kids and I in our tent. (Thanks Mom and Dave by the way - we love the tent, it is fabulous and withstands HIGH WINDS.) We had travelled together for the nearly 7 hr drive north to Harvey Bay in the campervan, the 5 kids in the back and 3 adults up front, half of the kids had to ride facing backwards looking out the back of the caravan.
After days next to the ocean with the mind lulling waves rolling in and out, the sand therapy, it does in fact cling with the tenacity of superclue on a squatty body, an eventful trip yabbie-pumping, and oodles of sand flinging in the surf we packed up and headed home.
5 and 3/4 hours into the return trip to the big city, Brisbane, a very relaxed 7 yr old asked the grownups sitting up the front "hey, what's that big yellow thing following us? I can just see it out the back."
It was the canoe.
Sitting on the trailer which we had pulled all the way to Harvey Bay and nearly back.
So next time the Dr., friend, or random Joe tells you you need to relax and forget your troubles, head to Harvey Bay on the Queensland coast in Australia.
Results assured.
