Lake Argyle - Day 76, 23/06/2016

We had promised the kids that Lake Argyle would be a "lazy"camp with out a lot of activities and plenty of relaxing, it certainly is an awesome place to do just that. Theo and I bundled everyone into the cars and went for a short drive to check out the dam wall and then had some morning tea in the picnic area below the dam wall.

Once back at camp we all walked down to the pontoon in the lake and enjoyed jumping off it into the water and fart arsing around. The only bad part of swimming in the lake is the walk back up the steep sides back to camp and we all enjoyed a cool off in the infinity pool at the caravan park which is awesome.

This  morning we also introduced ourselves to Chris, Katrina and Sophie who we had seen a couple of times on our walks in the Bungle Bungles. Sophie is the same age as Erin and the girls had a ball playing together, as it turns out Chris and Katrina went to the same high school as Anna and also live on the Sunny Coast. After dinner we invited them to join us for some drinks and we all had a great night.

Distance Traveled = 6 km
Total distance traveled with camper = 31,758, km 
Total number of nights in the camper = 207














































































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