OK this place was magic! I have never seen anything like it before.  We literally had our own beach front. It went ocean... sand... caravan! I could have easily stayed here for weeks on end. There was something so amazing about falling to sleep to the sound of lapping waves each night. Even though the caravan park we stayed at didn’t have any pools, mini golf, giant chess or jumping pillows. We had God’s own playground out the front and could go for a swim in the morning, build sandcastles in the afternoon and chill out with a cold one in the evenings. This is the outlook from the caravan-of-courage.... amazing.

The trip so far has been awesome, but really very busy. So it was brilliant to change pace for a while and give ourselves permission to slow down. We didn’t do school at all for the 4 days we were at Hervey. We just swam or watched the girls paddle and play... what a joy!

There was an amazing water park next door to the caravan park called Wet Side. The girls had a great time splashing and giggling in the fifty million sprinklers and standing under the huge water bucket. On Saturday evenings, the water park puts on a family light show. Even though this was really brief (maybe 4 songs worth), it was so fantastic!