Thursday, November 20, 2025

Day 19 - Hogwash Bend at Cadell

Today was almost the perfect camping day. Warm, light winds, perfect campsite, relaxing, water close enough for a swim - does it get any better than this?

Well, yes - actually it can be. See, last night we camped about 50 metres behind where our caravan is in the above photo, which was up on the level from where I took this photo. There was a whizz bang and a RTT in this spot so we chose the views over proximity to water. It was fine, although we did get hassled by some local yobbo who said we were blocking the boat ramp. There is no formal boat ramp, in actual fact there are a zillion places you can drive to the water's edge and launch a boat but never mind. But, when the whizz bang left at about 10:30am, we thought we might move down to here. So, the huge travel day of 50m was undertaken and we enjoyed elevenses in the sun on the water's edge listening to the birds, watching the pelicans, planning the next couple of peaceful warm days.....until a 4WD rolled in and two young people got out and looked around. After a while, they came over (we had been getting concerned as they were looking to set up in front of our car, and as you can see from the photo, we need to be able to drive forward to let Neill and Jude out and then reverse back ourselves) and got chatting about where they might set up. As they proceeded to tell us that they had a group of 35 people with 7 jet skis coming for a birthday party they had been planning for 2 months, our desire to stay dwindled significantly. We made their day by then telling them that we would be leaving in the morning and they could have our spot!

Our afternoon was still peaceful, we paddled, read, Neill had a swim, we watched the older guy behind us catch a couple of carp (!) and we planned where we might go tomorrow. Just to reinforce our desire to leave tomorrow, another couple of young people arrived at about 4pm, and then another two with the first jet ski at about 6pm. They launched the jet ski, hooned around a bit on that, someone did some wake boarding, they went to collect firewood in a donut towed behind the jetski - yep, this was just a small taste of what was to come! Then the music started (actually quite entertaining, and to to their credit, not very loud), they set up a projector and screen and started livestreaming Big Brother (!) - yep, all good reinforcement that we should leave.

Tonight, we enjoyed our drinks, nibbles and dinner in front of a roaring fire just metres from the river. We had ducks, seagulls and pelicans interested in our dinner and we did laugh a lot at the expense of our young, jetskiing neighbours. So while we are heading to a caravan park tomorrow and won't have the same ambience, views of the stars, space etc around our camp, it will be an awful lot quieter than here will be tomorrow!


posted by Tracey @ 10:46 pm

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