22/02/2025
Wow, what an adventure we had the past 7 months!
We set off in July, house rented to go travel around Australia on a working holiday. We bought a tradie trailer to take what we needed, only to have the car s**t an engine exactly 3 days before our new (and expensive) trailer arrived.
With the house rented and mortgage payments sorted we spent the next couple of months, working our bums off to pay the bills and accommodation. We were very lucky as we could stay with Brads family for a large portion, otherwise the bill to stay locally with a family of four is quite expensive as we found out. It was interesting being a “tourist” in our home town. We camped in our tents for two weeks, during which time we had 350mm or so of rain. Safe to say the OZ tents are very waterproof. The bottom of the tent was very much like a water bed at one point, but did not leak! Highly recommend!
We stayed at the mission beach resort. Very good value for money and great pool. Not having a kitchen was a downside.
We stayed at the Apollo jewel apartments, they were great as a base, had a kitchen, pool, washer dryer but at $250 or so a night, we could only stay a short while. We also stayed at the Tasman at south mission, it was terribly expensive during school holidays and no washing machine in the apartment. With two kids that love the pool and beach, washing was a very big part of the daily routine. Through all this Brad worked almost the entire time, either for our electrical business or fixing one of the many broken vehicles the we had to deal with.
Once the car was on the road and we got some funds back in the bank, we headed to Weipa for some RNR and a little work project. Unfortunately it was not a restful trip with the kids and the ensuing monsoon put a stop to any adventures pretty quick! So back we came and did house sitting for friends while we eagerly awaited the end of lease and return to our much missed beautiful home.
We’ve had 2 nights back so far, the washing machine has not stopped and so far we’ve had just over a meter of rain this month, a decent flood event right on our street and 200mm of rain this week. There’s also a low off the coast, so potentially lots more rain coming.
Axel started school during this time, Brad turned 40, Astrid turned 2. I turned into a raging hormonal bitch that doesn’t want to go anywhere, but hopefully with wine and some running I’ll get over it 🤣
Not the adventure we planned, but adventure we had!
Now to fix my car, which has been broken for over a year.
Parts are ordered, just have to shuffle the clock to help Brad put them in. Then onto the tidying up of our house and yard (which hasn’t seen love in 6 months) and get back into some form of a routine.
