Today was Kika the camper trailer’s second voyage. We took a full three hours to set her up. To be fair, this time we went FULL ANNEX, which means we had four cosy canvass walls wrapped around our kitchen area. Nice. It also means we braced torrential rain for a night, with the classic family bonding experience of playing cards whilst huddling together under blankets.
Our camp site at Queenscliffe Tourist Park (site number #5) was a small but grassy patch on the edge of the local cricket oval. Even the ocean view from 50m away was unfortunately not enough to place it in my good books, given that I felt that I was forced to shush the kids every 5 minutes on average because we felt almost on top of our neighbours. It’s my rookie mistake though; always check the site map! I need to starts a rating system really. My rockstar rider list consists of: 1) soft grass 2) An Instagramable view from the bull-bar window 3) Space for the kids to be loud and free.
After two nights we packed up the car & trailer and hopped across Naarm Bay/Port Phillip Bay on the Searoad ferry. After the Covid_19 lockdown this year, it’s been a while since I’ve felt such absolute freedom as staring at the horizon of the open ocean (Well, okay, the Bay.) The last boat I sailed on was a Vietnamese basket boat over a year ago, so today topped my adventure cup up again.
As did a couple of hours in Sorrento. The high-street is not really my vibe with it’s Country Road and Lulu Lemon outlets, but I easily bypassed those in favour of the Vanilla Slice Café. I do love an vanilla slice. The sunshine came out long enough for a birthday picnic on the foreshore and an ankle deep paddle. Next time, when the water isn’t below 20 degrees, I have my sights set on swimming out to the floating pontoon just off the pier. Which should have my adventure cup overflowing after this year.
I would like to acknowledge the Wada Wurrung people as the owners and traditional custodians of the land of which I’ve written about in the Queenscliffe section and the Boon Wurrung of the Kulin Nation in the Sorrento section of this post. I pay my respects to their elders past, present and continuing.
Little Anantasin 
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