We decided to stay an extra day as I was able to change our Bilby Experience Tour in Charleville from Friday to Saturday. This meant we could stay for another night at Lara. It really is one of our favourite camp spots. I think I might have said that before!

Brian & Helen and Carol & David left in the morning to head off on further travels. The rest of us walked down to reception to pay for another day. It seems to happen each time we’ve been to Lara. We always extend our stay!

Robert then moved his van into the gap left by the departed vans and it was closer to Katie’s van. He then set up his fire pit in the middle.

Pa had a soak at the thermal pool with Ben in the morning. Maddie went kayaking with Aunty Catie again, Riley and Ben went off to the thermal pool. Ben is happy to go to the thermal pool with anyone.

In the late morning I made a batch of scones in our oven. I forgot to put the chopped dates in the mix so I had to add them on top. They still tasted OK.

It became quite cold and Robert got the little fire pit going. As we sat around the fire everyone moved closer and closer until we were almost on top of it. It had become bitterly cold.

Riley, Ben & Maddie went off to play mini golf and then later Ben and Maddie rode by on bikes. They were having fun.

It was my turn to cook and I prepared a pork rolled roast and veggies to cook in my little oven. Yum.

What a cold and overcast day it had been. We all sat around Robert’s little fire pit rugged up in our jackets and beanies to keep warm.

Our batteries were struggling as they hadn’t had a good chance to top up due to the cloud cover all day. No diesel heater for us! Not enough power to run it. We seriously need to look at upgrading our solar panels to ones with more watts!