On this trip we have stayed in two different holiday parks. The first one was near Sydney and the other one was right on the beach in Umina. In both holiday parks we had to sleep in a tent so I haven’t slept in a bed in like two weeks. So pretty much I haven’t slept much at all. Both parks have a swimming pool, jumping pillow and showers and stuff, but one has a kitchen and the other doesn’t. The one we are staying in now doesn’t have a kitchen but we found a nice little spot with a picnic table and grill. Also, the pool at this park has a waterslide! It’s kind of a lame waterslide and its really short but we go down it backwards or upside down and then it’s really fun. Both pools had a hot tub but this one isn’t hot at all. The only cool thing about it is that when you plug up the jets water come spouting out the air intake holes. In one of them the water spouts up like seven feet! We had some good water fights with those. Both jumping pillows were pretty much the same. They are giant pillows that are made of rubber (like bounce houses) and blown up with air. They are really fun to jump on but only if Zander isn’t there pushing people off. This holiday park is really close to a big park with one of those exercise circuit things that don’t really exercise you. There is also a really big rope climbing structure that Sarah is pretty obsessed with. A bit farther down the road is the Umina town centre. That consists of about five discount variety shops, three chemists, two supermarkets, 3 kebab restaurants, lots of fish and chips, two surf shop outlets, and a few other nice shops. All this smashed into about 3 blocks. It’s pretty nice except I don’t think its necessary to have like 3 of the same shops within three blocks. We went there yesterday and had kebabs for dinner. They were delish! Mommy got the curry and it didn’t really agree with her stomach so she was really gassy for the rest of the day…. Fun!!
Mia--that's an up close and personal description of a "caravan park"!! It has a reasonable amount of stuff to do in it--not bad!
ReplyDeleteAs for sleeping--yeah--that was always the bad part of backpacking for me! Even worse than going uphill with a heavy pack. In fact, mot sleeping was kinda the reason for not going any more. There is a trail loop up in Yosemite that has rustic amps space about a day's walk from each other--called the High Sierra Camp Loop. The cabins are just tent cabins with cots. But that sure beats the ground--and it's that loop that I've always held in my mind as my next back pack.
Thanks for the update. We've been looking forward to hearing how Australia is turning out. Much love, bippy