Bowen

Our trip to Bowen was a bit more than we could chew. Actually, scratch that, it was like biting into a juicy sweet Pineapple but actually getting a fresh lemon. Both are good but you definitely were not expecting your pineapple to be quite so sour. With a little sugar though it was still a delicious lemon!
We packed up and left around 3 in the afternoon Friday the 2nd, just after Sky got out of school.

This guy was hangin around the park.

I am trying to learn to take pictures more often but I am still lacking so I don't have a picture of our camp site but, picture this in your head if you would. our reservations were at a site we  had never been at before because this was a first, camping out at Bowen. It was a jam packed caravan park with a load a of old fogies just living there all winter from southern Australia where it is much cooler this time of year. They all were besties who knew each other from the countless other winters together. We are pretty sure we were the only tent in the whole place, everyone else was in there luxury caravans. I guess the lady at the desk saves the best spots for her regulars so we were left with this space squashed in an odd corner with a park light right over the top of our tent. It was an excellent light it gave its all, working to its full capacity and never held back. for one second. . . . ever. . . all. night. long. 

 In the morning, when we were quite sure the sun had risen, Sky woke me up and asked me to go to the bathroom with her so I figured I might as well get up. However when I walked outside it was still pitch black around our glowing tent! Thanks to that determined little light none of us were ever sure when it was morning outside and as a result Sky and Rain both woke up at 5 am assuming the sun was up. Sigh, I never thought letting your light so shine could bug me so much.

We were up so early that we walked over to the beach and decided to watch the sunrise.

Sky and I shell seared in low tide water and found super cool shells! We may have gotten our PJs a bit wet in the process but it was well worth it. 

we headed back to camp for breakfast in the caravan cooking area. Sky thought it was her own personal jungle gym.

In order to fully appreciate the beach all day long we packed up camp early and  Davey found this little guy. I wonder if tree frogs work the same as kissing normal frogs? or would I have ended up with a Sloth prince or something, or maybe because I am in Australia it would be an Aboriginal, didgeridoo playin prince. . . neither seemed very appealing so I decided to leave it a mystery. 

after packing up everyone was rear-en to got to the water!

Davey Sky and I jumped in almost right when we got there! The water was so clear and beautiful! the sun was out and it was looking like a promising day to be at the beach. 15 minutes later Sky and I decided to go Rock hoping around the Bay. the rocks went put in the ocean so it was fun to see how far out you could make it. Nothing was very deep around the rocks though. There were barnacles and crustasion on ever rock and the farthest ones were almost completely covered on all sides. We made it out all the way out and just as we started coming back Sky slipped on a rock and sliced her foot on a barnacle! It was quite deep and I didnt want her walking around on it I walked back close enough to flag down Davey and helped him get her back the rest of the way! 

Sky was taken to the hospital and got 5 stitches. After that we decided to come back home because Sky wouldnt be have much fun when the pain mad wore off.

She was a good sport.

On our way home I was blessed with quite a treat.

A picture with the worlds largest mango! It is in the middle of nowhere and cost $30,000 to make! But don't worry because they only went $60,000 over budget and ended up paying $90,000 for it instead.

Then we found a great big fake pumpkin so we had to tourist that puppy up as well! 

So the trip wasn't quite what we expected, but we can add it to the list of adventures and I can check a few wacky tourist spots off my list. I think the pros well outweighed the cons and even some of the cons make good enough stories to maybe be thought of as a pro one day.