This Easter we went camping at Moogerah along with my sister, her family, my brother and his family and some other friends. We left on Good Friday and came home on Easter Monday so we had four days and three nights out there. 

The pin shows where we camped. It was in private property on the Reynolds Creek. (Courtesy of Google Earth) Click on the pictures to get a bigger view.

My bedroom had water views…

The kitchen also had water views. I made this cupboard a few years ago. It is great and packs away into a compact unit.

The boys accommodation (I wasn’t sleeping in there – they fart too much!)

The camp fire was the place to be at night.

I tried my hand at baking cakes in the camp oven. Here is a date loaf…

and the next day a sultana cake. Both were just yummy if I do say so myself. I enjoyed making the cakes in the camp oven. They were just packet mixes so just needed to add an egg and water but it was very satisfying getting the temperature right with the coals and timing it so they didn’t burn.

My sister relaxing.

Where there is a tree, there is usually a boy trying to climb it. Pity Tommy fell off this one on the last day as we were packing up.

 Here is Aaron in mid-air. He jumped from the tree above him. This is a lovely deep water hole.

Tommy caught a guppy in the billy. He drained the water off it and I think the poor thing died from being handled. He threw it on the fire and then tried to catch another one ‘so the first one wouldn’t be lonely’. He was out of luck the second time around. Kids come out with some funny things. Wasn’t funny for the guppy though…

I enjoyed seeing this shag turn up. The kids didn’t worry it, it landed in the creek and the water was so clear you could see it swimming underwater looking for food. Then it went up into a tree to dry its wings. That’s when I took this photo of it.

Camp oven cooking. Nothing like it!

David and Aaron waiting for tea to cook.

We made Tommo’s Roustabout Stew for tea in the camp oven. Was delicious!
(Frank “Tommo” Thompson is a legendary camp oven cooking specialist and I made this from one of his recipe books)

David with my sister’s dog Roxy.

The surfer dog!

Aaron caught this jew fish on the last night and he enjoyed it for breaky the next day cooked over the coals. Dad had to clean it though…


It was a great weekend. Very relaxing until it was time to pack up and go home. If only we didn’t have to pack everything away and do all that washing………