12 - 13 August 2016 - Days 132 - 133 - Lancelin

After the boys successful morning fishing we drove to Lancelin.  On the way we passed thousands and thousands of black boys on the side of the road.

When we arrived in Lancelin we drove into the caravan park and we were the only ones in the caravan park beside the permanent residents.  It was a very weird feeling.  Later that afternoon another caravan turned up.

The caravan park was right on the beach behind the sand dunes and the boys couldn't wait to get their boogie boards out and try a bit of sandboarding.  They had a great time and were looking forward to going to the big dunes the next day.

We went for a drive around town and found a bakery and Mitch chose the biggest cookie in the world, it was bigger than his head.  Then we found the jetty.  A local told Michael that you can catch squid off the jetty so the boys came back later in the afternoon for a look but it was too windy.

That night we had a quiet night and watched more of the olympic games.

The next morning Michael and Cooper went fishing but had no luck.  Then it was off to the sand dunes.  We hired two sandboards and headed to the highest sand dune that we could fine.  The guy at the hire place told us not to put our tyre pressures down as the sand was so hard from all the rain.  We thought we should, so we lowered them a little bit.  Everything was good and the boys all had a few turns going down the dunes.  It was hard for them to start off as the sand was a bit wet.  We were about to leave and drive back to the bottom when we got bogged.  Two nice guys that were also sandboarding near us came over and helped dig us out.  They had a pair of maxtrax that were easy to get to as ours were chained to the cage on the roof.  We put the tracks under the back tyres and tried to drive out but we only got more bogged.  We all dug the car out more as the sand had come up to the engine and got our maxtrax down and put them under the front wheels.  Luckily this worked and were able to drive back down the dune.  After that we were keen to get off the sand and go to The Tavern for a well earned drink.

We stayed at The Tavern for a few hours and enjoyed the sunshine while the kids played on the sand as it was right on the beach.

Then we went back to the caravan and the kids wanted to do more sandboarding in the dunes behind the caravan park, they couldn't get enough.

That night we felt very old as a group of young people arrived with their swags and their loud music and stayed in an onsite van.  We thought they were going to keep us up all night but they weren't too bad and we managed to get some sleep.