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Winter? Really??



We are lucky enough to live on the bay.  

I totally didn't appreciate what a magic part of the city this is before we moved here. Now we are here we just want to embrace having all this wonder right on our doorstep.

Thankfully we have a great group of friends who just happen to have boats.  And beach houses!

So the other week, in the middle of a Brisbane winter, we headed off to the gorgeous Moreton Island for the weekend.  

The trip over was probably at the rough end of the scale and I may possibly have had a look of sheer terror on my face until we had passed through the bar.  After that I loosened my white knuckled grip on the children just the tiniest bit and enjoyed the rest of the ride.  

With that behind us there was nothing else to do but let the littlies potter around, eat, drink and generally be merry.

The next day our motley crew swelled in numbers as more friends from this neck of the woods boated over.  The kids swam and played around on jet skis and quad bikes (with adult drivers!) and generally had the best time of their lives.  

Now all we need to do is get ourselves a boat... 


Pick the landlubber kids!


Check out all these kids!!!

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