Easter 2017 - Ocean Beach Bribie Island

First up apologies for the lack of updates on the blog we have been busy building our new canopy setup over the past few months and have finally got it to the stage where I am happy with it and more importantly we can camp from it. For those of you that are interested I’ll post up some details of the new setup in our Setup page of the blog.

On Thursday afternoon we patiently waited for high tide to come and go and set off to the Ocean Beach Camping area on Bribie Island just after lunch time. The beach on Bribie is our traditional Easter get away and it was great to return to the island after missing out last year. We were a bit tardy with our booking this year and missed out on our regular favourite sites but no longer having a camper trailer was a benefit as we can now look at using some of the smaller sites.

This year we secured sites 12 and 13 and were joined by Anna’s Mum and Dad – Greg and Lenore on Friday afternoon and they stayed with us through to Sunday afternoon. On Sunday our mates Thoro, Lara and Dimitri joined us for the day and we had a fantastic time catching up with them too. The campgrounds have taken a bit of a battering lately with damage to quite a bit of the trees thanks to ex cyclone Debbie and the more northern campsites seem to have fared a bit better than the southern ones.

All up we had 5 nights away and it was great to get out and do some camping, away from home and all the modern distractions. The weather was excellent and we can’t wait to head out on another trip in a few weeks’ time for the May Day long weekend.

















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