Cape Paterson

Cape Paterson - Day 4

We decided to go on the Screw Creek Walking Trail this morning. It is located in Inverloch at the end of the council camping ground. Loaded up the prams with hats, drinks, snacks etc and off we set. The walking trail follows Screw Creek for a while and then heads off up the hill to Townsend Bluff where you get some fantastic views of the surrounding beach areas of Anderson Inlet – very blue seas and skies – Lovely.

The walk took us an hour or two with lots of stops along the way including spotting tiny mud-crabs in the mangroves, a gnarly old gum tree with some great branches for climbing, and of course the views of the inlet and across the town of Inverloch.
Decided to have fish and chips in the local park for lunch – Fantastic fresh caught fish in a light crispy batter – yummy. The kids had a great time playing in the park – they especially loved the big ‘wibble wobble’ bee! Gemma did spend more time chasing sea gulls than on the playground though. Speaking of sea gulls – they were not shy ones – they swooped down and nicked things off our fish and chip paper and tried to swipe things out of the kids hands!

Next we headed back to the van for naps for Ethan and Gemma. Zac and Darrin went for a walk and explored some rock-pools finding a variety of sea life including a variety of coloured starfish, small crabs and an anemone looking thing. The rest of the afternoon was spent as chill time. The kids have been great but they have done so much walking in the last few days we put on a movie for them and they got to watch it while eating dinner! Showers and bed soon followed.


Cape Paterson – Day 5

We did not plan on going anywhere today. Gemma had another rough night – her teeth have been giving her quite a bit of grief and she awoke cold at about 2am and could not be convinced to stay under her own covers and warm up so she ended up in bed with us. Ultimately this means we get squashed into 1/3 of the bed and Gemma sprawls out over the remaining bed space ensuring her absolute comfort and pick of the pillows - why use your own when you can steal mummy’s???!!!!

Anyway, today we were expecting a visitor - Fiona, a former work colleague of Darrin’s who now lives on Phillip Island, was popping up for a visit. Before moving down to the island she had regularly popped in to visit Jeanette and the kids at home, the kids loved those visits! After playing around outside for a while Fiona arrived and the day progressed with Morning Tea, a walk on the beach, lunch, playing totem tennis and soccer and cricket and finally bed for Ethan and Gemma who were by this stage exhausted!! It was a relaxed day and it was really lovely to catch up with Fiona.
After the Ethan awoke, Darrin, Zac and Ethan headed down to the beach for some fun and frivolity. Jeanette stayed to wait till Gemma woke up – after a while she had still not stirred and so in an effort to ensure she would not sleep all afternoon and not go to bed at night I decided to wake her. This did not go down well as she opened her sleepy eyes, grunted and rolled over, grabbed her Care Bear and pitched it with great accuracy at me then rolled over and tried to go back to sleep……I guess she was not happy about being woken up !!! We eventually made it to the beach and had a lovely time with the others in the waves and building and decorating sand castles. Ethan in particular giggled and ran in and out of the water having a great time.

It was back ‘home’ to the caravan for bath and dinner. (The beach is merely a 2 minute walk through the sand dunes from our site). Went for a walk this evening as the sun was setting – the full moon was a really unusual colour of orange – it just glowed. Very pretty as it shimmered across the water.