Moore Boating

So in the previous post I promised to write about my trip with Mum and Dad - and here it is.

For the first week of the school holidays Mum and Dad took off on their yacht "Dragon Lady" on the start of their "Up North" adventure. The plan was I guess for them to go as far up the North Queensland coast as possible before the need to turn back in time to be home for Christmas. Or something like that.

Anyway, for the first week they took Harry and Lachlan with them. Having seen the photos, I believe they had a good time - at least, I'm sure Lachlan did - I'm not so sure about Harry though as I believe he was quite sick for most of the time. Actually, when he got back he was terribly ill, which resulted in a couple of days stay in hospital. We still don't really know what was wrong with him.

The plan was though that Dad would get the train back with the boys at the end of the week in time to attend a microtia conference on the Gold Coast with Mel, Kev, the boys and Bethany. After the conference, he would drive back to Brisbane, where I would meet him - and we would drive together back up to Hervey Bay. Well, the plan pretty much took place - except that rather than drive back up on the Saturday we went on the Sunday.

I had a fabulous week there - we stayed a few days in Hervey Bay and then sailed over to Fraser Island for a night. Whilst at Fraser I mentioned to Dad that I would quite like to see some whales - so he organised for a whale watching trip in Hervey Bay (thus meaning we needed to go back to Hervey Bay, but hey, it was good). We sailed for the last part of our trip up the northern end of the bay and ended up in Bundaberg, where we met up with Uncle Max and Aunty Meredith for lunch and dinner.

The next day I left Bundy on the bus back to Hervey Bay to pick up my car which I had left at the marina there (we had made arrangements that I could return the key then and I would get Dad's deposit back). Nice drive back to Brisbane - it was all good. A totally fab week, ta Mum and Dad.