The Pohl Family: MORETON ISLAND

We were invited to go camping with a few families on Moreton Island for the last part of the school break this past weekend. We were all excited to go (especially Adalyn since she would be spending her days with one of her best friends)! A few days before, we all headed to the camping store and bought the necessities since all we had was the tent! We had so much fun prepping for this vacation and all the work/stress was worth it! We took the Micat ferry from the port of Brisbane and headed over to the island. The girls had fun camping and playing...of course Emi wouldn't step on the sand in her bare feet, and if she did, she froze on the spot saying "I don't like it!!!" Needless to say she had shoes on most of the time or hung out by the tent playing on the mats. We did get her down to the beach (with water shoes) for a couple of days. Adalyn loved playing in the sand with the other kids that were in our group and even caught a few ghost crabs. I'm sure the crabs were probably glad when we left being that they were held captive in buckets for most of the 4 days and if they tried to escape they were quickly scooped up! ;) The island itself is absolutely beautiful! No modern roads, cold showers (not so pretty), absolutely unspoiled land! There is a resort on the North Side of the island but we all enjoyed being out in the wilderness! It's also whale watching time over here and we did get to see some of the whales breeching! I have no words for how beautiful and peaceful it was to get to see these animals coming up out of the water. We saw them from far away but it was so exciting to get to witness something like that in person. (hoping to do a whale watching tour next season or getting a really high powered lens for the camera) Overall, we had a fabulous time and enjoyed getting to see another part of Australia!