Camping with the Wilsons

This is a little late in coming but its been pretty busy over here so i hadn't had a cahnce to update it with photos and a little blurb on our camping funtimes. I think that we discovered that if you ever want it to rain you just have to plan a camping expedition and it will pour. Sarah and i lived in our massive tent for 3 nights, two were spent wet and windy. it started off alright with the weather and such, but the next day it was just cloudy and rainy and windy. We went for a walk in a gorge where it was a little less windy and more enjoyable. the brown mass that brad, sarah's brother is holding up is grasshoppers. they were all over the beach. at first we just thought it was seaweed but then we looked closer and they were all dead locusts. and it stank so bad. then we listened to the weather reports on the radio and they were advising all campers who were near the ocean to evacuate (sarah and i were pretty much sleeping right on the beach in our little tent.) we were unsure if we would stay on the third night, but in the end we did stay and it was so windy! That day we went on some 4WDing trails and it was so much fun. its like quading but fun in a different way. we hardly got any sleep at all and at some points the wind blew the tent so hard that it would lay out flat on top of me! then the fly (cover) came off the tent at about 6 am and so we went out to take the tent down in the rain and wind and we were just so miserable to have been woken up so harshly. but we played lots of kitty poker in those few days of camping which is a really fun game. it was great bonding time with the family and fun to see another side of australia. maybe one that i hope i dont see too often.