Booderee National Park

Check out the Flickr photos of us at Booderee NP in the ACT bit of the south coast. It was lovely warm weather so we even managed a short swim (good for May). Ryan had a ball at our campsite at Bristol Point (5 mins walk from Greenpatch). We felt relatively childless with the group of 6 dads from Sydney with their tribe of 15? kids nextdoor plus two other groups with children nearby. Their plan was to run them ragged, put them to bed early and then party. Unfortunately for me their partying on the second night and Ryan's very early wakeup added up to no sleep for me. The first morning we had an infant wake us up at 5.30am. On the second morning the kookaburras let rip at 6am whereupon Ryan stood up from his bed and said "Funny bird". Also rather unfortunate was the birds and animals habituated to feeding from kids. We lost a sausage that I was saving for Ryan and a kookaburra took a cheese sandwich right out of Bob's hand as he was eating it.

Off to NZ in two weeks

We are going to take our toddler overseas! At least it's only a three hour plane ride but we have elected to fly to Nelson on the same day to get to Pat's aunt and uncle's place. His Canberra-based parents have a New Zealand car garaged there which we can borrow. Jessica and Basil have grandchildren so they have camping and baby gear we can borrow.
We are going to try camping in our new 3 person Eureka tent. We tried it out in the garden and Ryan lay down between us - very cute. Now we just have to work out how to manage his naps whilst sightseeing. Probably the whale watching that I missed out on last time due to bad weather will not be toddler-friendly.

Any kid-friendly New Zealand attraction suggestions welcome.

I fixed the meta tag in xml problem tonight - forgot the end tag. Feedmap still doesn't work that well.

Goanna

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Originally uploaded by Robubble.

In the New Year of 2006 we managed a two night camp out with the baby boy in a deserted wilderness site in the Budawangs. Lizards and kangaroos roamed around.