Weekend in Basin View

Friday, June 28, 2013 - Monday, July 1, 2013

Sydney caught a big one. Ha!

We went south down the coast to Basin View on the St. George Basin to spend the weekend with some friends at their holiday home.  It had been raining all week, so it was nice to get out of the apartment.  Rod and Lucy were there when we arrived.  Rod told us about how high the water level was due to the amount of rain we had gotten during the week and the damage it has caused.  We hung out until the rest of the girls arrived.  After everyone arrived, the kids played some games before we called it a night.

On Saturday, it was still raining.  Georgia drove Cheryl and I to the store to get food.  Rod worked on his boat, and the rest of the kids played games.  In the afternoon, we were all going a little stir crazy, so we drove around to see the area and stopped in Milton for coffee.  Sydney actually saw a good friend from St. Mary's while we were there.  We watched a movie and played cards until late in the evening.

Sophie fishing at sunset

Sarah holding a fish

Lucy, Dagan, Rod, & Sydney fishing

On Sunday, it finally stopped raining.  We had jaffles for breakfast.  They are toasted sandwiches over a fire.  They were delicious.  We will be buying the pans to make some at home.  Then the kids headed to the water.  Lucy and Dagan went kayaking.  Sydney, Sarah, Sophie, and Dagan walked to the end of the jetty.  The jettys in the area had lots of damage from the water levels being so high.  Most of the top boards on their jetty were missing, so it was a balancing act to get to the end.  Since it was so tricky, the kids and Rod walked around finding boards that had come off and laid them out on the jetty.  This make it easier to get to the end.  Afterwards, Rod got the boat in the water with Adam's help, so they took the kids out fishing.  When they returned, it was dinner time.  Then we played some more cards and watched another movie.  It was another late evening.

a flathead

On Monday, it was a beautiful sunny day.  We had jaffles again for breakfast.  Yum! The kids decided they wanted to go skiing and kneeboarding.  Sarah went first.  Then Dagan, Georgia, and Sydney went.  My kids said it was strange to kneeboard on smooth water that tasted like salt.  After the kids were finished, Rod took Cheryl, Adam and I for a ride around the basin.  It is a large body of water.  One part is connected to the ocean through an inlet.  We didn't travel down that part.  It was really nice to be on water that was smooth.  It reminded us of being Up North.  We headed back to Wollongong around dinner time.  We had a great time with our friends! , 2013