Gismo Queen and her King

I woke early and so dropped the bottom blind in order to watch the sunrise but it was a bit cloudy. Still nice to watch the early morning bird traffic on the river. Eventually it was late enough to wake Greg and have our morning cuppa in bed. Then it was time for the Sunday morning fry up - Neill and I shared duties and we all enjoyed a combination of eggs, bacon, toast/muffins, hash browns, baked beans and mushrooms. Delicious.

Fortified, Neill and I set off on firewood collection. We found many appropriate limbs so cut them to length and dragged them back to camp. That was hot and sweaty work - so much so we were tempted to jump in the river to cool off!

Then there were all the domestic duties, including the need to descale the coffee machine!Thank goodness Jude brought the necessary bits and pieces - not something I had thought of! But its now on the list!

Eventually there  was some quiet time on the river banks to read. Such gorgeous weather. For our further entertainment, Neill decided to try his luck fishing. Imagine everyone’s delight when he caught something  in the first 10 minutes! And then imagine our disappointment when we all found out it was carp!!!

We had lit the fire at lunchtime in order to make good coals as we were having a roast in the camp oven tonight. By 5ish the coals were perfect and so the lamb went in one camp oven and the vegies in the other. By 7pm, we were serving roast lamb with gravy and/or mint sauce, roast potato, carrot and pumpkin (Courtney and Andrew, the pumpkins still keep on giving!!!), steamed cauliflower with white sauce. Who says you can’t eat well camping?! We did have a go at the people (in various online camping groups) who feel the need to pre cook and pre prepare their meals - for us, half the fun is cooking either on a fire or at least outdoors. And you should absolutely be ale to east as well as we do at home.