CAMPSITE # 70 - Watchout Tommy, the girls are taking over...

Site : Lake St Clair National Park

Camping Ground Rating : 10 / 20

Facilities : Good facilities, clean & tidy toilets with hot (pay $1 for 6 minute) showers. Electricity available in facilities. Right next to the lake but no views of it.

As Tom and I decided to be lazy and stick around at our campsite prior in Hamilton for two full days, the day of collecting my mum from the airport was a serious driving day... even for this tiny little island you wouldn't think it was possible to drive for six hours in one day.

Once we had collected a happy & excited traveller from the airport in the afternoon, sorted her car out... we drove in convoy straight to Lake St Clair. 3 hours later, I'm pretty sure Mum was VERY sick of sitting down. 

We loved it when Mum opened her suitcase full of surprises for Tom and I.

• Woohoo a new shirt for each of us!! Something different to wear than the same clothes we've been outwearing day in, day out for the last five months!!
• Yippee!! A real teapot with real tea leaves and the cutest little fluffy woollen tea cosy... no saying how long it will last as a cute little fluffy tea cosy but we're certainly going to try.
• New thongs (flip flops!!) and we didn't even tell her that Tom had been gluing his back together for the last two weeks and they were on their last legs.. Mum's just seem to know these things!
• And... freshly baked cookies. I'm in heaven. Hmmmm I'm in heaven just thinking about them.... Freshly. Baked. Cookies.  
• And the one that topped it all off and I thought all of my Christmas' had come at once, homemade from orangically homegrown basil... Pesto... What a treat!!

We slept in the Troopie and set Mum up with our tent and 3 blankets... as I knew she really wouldn't cope well in the cold. Only to find out the next morning that it was actually 3 degrees in the tent and she spent half the night wide away and shivering... hmmm we have officially been awarded the bad host award for night number one...