Seaforth Matilda

After a drive, we set up camp in the Seaforth Camping Ground. There was a playground just down the road from our campsite, but it was infested with green ants and we couldn’t play on the main playground. We did lots of swimming inside the stinger nets and had heaps of fun at the beach catching hermit crabs and then letting them go again.

WHERE?

Seaforth is very close to Mackay.

WHEN?

We stayed there for 6 days, arriving on Wednesday 20 July, 2016.

Where and when

Day	Date	Where
Thursday	28	Winks and Theresa
Wednesday	27	Airlie Beach
Tuesday	26	Airlie Beach
Monday	25	Seaforth
Sunday	24	Seaforth
Saturday	23	Seaforth
Friday	22	Seaforth
Thursday	21	Seaforth
Wednesday	20	Seaforth

Cape Hillsborough

We went for a walk at the Cape Hillsborough and had lots of fun on our walk. There were very informative signs which told us about Indigenous Australians and different kinds of ecosystems and biodiversity. The latter posed many deep questions such as:

How might mangrove forests cope with climate change?

What will happen to the forests around you in the future?

We had another adventure at Cape Hillsborough by meeting Mum’s friend Holly and her two daughters Layla and Bridie for a picnic dinner. We had sausages and made friends.

Seaforth Camping Ground

I was playing on the park on our last full day of our stay at Seaforth when a girl called out to me. At the time, I had no idea that she was the sister of Lewis and Reuben’s newest friend. However, she was and when I met her again later, all was revealed. Her name was Ashlia and her brother’s name was Riley. We played together on the playground for a bit, chatting and telling each other about ourselves. We really were friends.

After we had gone back to our separate campsites, we met again and played, along with Riley again. This time, we played a game which involved going down slides backwards and sending Shopkins down the slides for the other person to catch. Afterwards, we went for a swim. I had stinging pains just about everywhere on me, so I left the water early and started to play on the swings.

Slade Point

The day after meeting Holly at Cape Hillsborough, we met Layla, Bridie and Holly again, this time at a beautiful beach called Slade Point. We played touch footy on the sand before retreating to the playground to keep cool. The wonderful morning was topped off by hot chips and calamari for lunch.