The Start of our Journey

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Ohhh boy, was this was a process and a half. Gennie and my (I'm Peter BTW) first step was to come up with what we wanted in a camper trailer. After camping in tents, we decided that we wanted something easy to manoeuvre, would not cause either of us a hernia and looked cool (no, just made that bit up). As we are both over 50 and hoping to retire sometime this lifetime, we wanted to make a start.

A little background first. We had our first big camping adventure in 05 with a trip to Fraser Island. Such a magnificent part of the world, great views, scenery and interesting wildlife (more about that shortly). We spent several days driving from Melbourne to Maryborough in QLD via the Newell, one of Australia's great drives. We got onto the Island from Maryborough, and not driving like I had stolen the XTrail, promptly got bogged (yea OK I’m allowed one per trip). Also educated Gen in that the unbogger (shovel) lived under her seat. Lucky me that a tour bus came along and recovered us…. We had a blinder of a time on the Island and decided that this camping thing was for us.

Camping – 10/10, setting up tent and site 00/10, fully loaded car you get the picture.
We decided that our next major purchase was going to be a camper trailer. Almost forgot, the interesting wildlife - there was a goanna that decided that our food was easier getting than its own. It’s interesting the different size perspectives that occur between boys and girls. For mine, he/she was a little fella, for Gen it was something huge that had to be sorted with the unbogger. End result goanna 1 unbogger 0.