Stockton Beach

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It all started way too early on Saturday the 27th November 2010, the trip was uneventful until we stopped at the twin service stations,  the designated meeting place around 6.30am to find there was no-one in sight. A phone call to Ian resulted in a disheveled barefoot man wandering into the café. He had arrived a lot earlier and used this time to have a quick nap. By 7.30am no-one else had arrived so we headed for Anna Bay. We arrived at Birubi Beach Caravan Park only to find out that check-in wasn’t until after 2pm, so off to the beach we went. A decision was made to make our way along the beach to the wreck to set up for morning tea and to wait to see if any calls came through from any others joining the trip.

Ian and Michael parked our 4WD’s alongside each other so that Ian could tie off the shelter to the bull bar of Michaels car. (This later resulted in Michael’s car getting bogged.) Soon Terry arrived with his two dogs and was followed by his sons Tim and Ben who live in Shoal Bay, they were tagalongs for the day. They were an asset to the trip helping out Ian and Terry who both got bogged in the sand dunes. Ian’s was by far the best, as it took a double snatch to get him out.

It was back to the caravan park for the evening. Ian soon had his camper up and it was time for us to have drinks and nibbles and then think about cooking dinner.

Day 2

Met up at the entrance to the beach after breakfast, Terry, Ian, Michael and Debra were off to the dunes for the day. First stop after driving along the beach was for morning tea at the wreck. Next it was off into the dunes with Terry leading the way and Ian taking the girls in his car with him. We all had a go with the exception of the kids, and I think I surprised a few with the dunes that I went up and down as I am a novice. I was determined to get up the dune the first go as I'm really hopeless at reversing.

We had a great day and even had a demo on how to change a fan belt after Ian’s car shredded his into the fan as we stopped on the top of a dune to change over drivers. It was great spotting by Arthur as it had only just happened. After this it was back out onto the beach and back to the park for drinks and nibbles, then to the local pub for dinner. We were all lucky enough to have the Monday off so we made the most of the trip and stayed again that night.

Monday was home day and we had friends to see in Medowie while the others went into Stockton to the old wharf and the harbour.

A great time had by all, ready for the next.