Finally after all the talk about spending some time together on our dream holidays, the Rogers and the Halls got together for some fun and adventure. After stirring Rick up about us having a better time, there we were waiting for them at Home Valley thinking they won’t make it through the river crossing, when in the distance we see the landcruiser and the expanda riding into town like Clint Eastwood in The Unforgiven. Mr Cool, fresh from giving 2 French female backpackers a lift, cruises in, puts the Camp Nazi back in his box, and in 5 minutes has the van set up with the aircon full blast. Needless to say we spent a lot of time in their caravan. Home Valley was a letdown though (it was a bit sterile, we caught no fish and there was no shade), so we left the next day deciding to meet again at Lake Argyle. The Rogers were going via ELQ where they got a better deal on a helicopter ride and did everything we did, in 5 days, in 1. So we arrived at Lake Argyle first and were blown away by the place, quickly setting up and jumping in the endless pool to watch the sunset.
It reminded me of Santorini and I was wallowing in reverie until it was suddenly broken by the old grumps telling us to get out of the pool and make sure we police our kids and it was lights out at 8.30 and...he was a tosser. Anyway we knew everything would be ok when the Rogers arrived and we were right- no one mess’s with Spiderman. We had a ball catching black bream at the spillway (Arch landed a 42cm one),
catching redclaw at the dam wall, lots of swims in the pool, and the kids had a lot of fun together.
Archer proved Cooper’s theory that his Dad does nothing when he spent a whole day putting Cooper’s remote controlled car together. Coops was going off and I think Arch has a mate for life.
Our big outing was driving over the dam wall and we didn’t even get a dam t-shirt to say we had done it! But we ended our time together with a bang doing the sunset cruise on the lake which was spectacular- lots of swims and jumping off the boat, lots of info (I fell asleep during the story of the Duracks) and just magic scenery finished with a great sunset and a full moon.
We will definitely miss the Rogers as they head west and we head back and down the middle, but we look forward to moving into their house when we return while they move back into their unit. Special mention to a great couple we met from Hampton, Sue and Di. Di is a hairdresser and talked the boys into removing their long locks. Checkout how much older they look!
There were a few black clouds, thunder and lightning too signalling the start of the wet season. Rain seems a welcome relief to the stifling heat.
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