We managed to squeeze in a camping weekend at Coolendell with Fenna just two weeks before she left to return to Holland. Our gorgeous friends, Matt, Laura and Hamish Howe also came along. Fenna was desperate to see wombats in the wild and sure enough Coolendell delivered!! As we pulled into the driveway of the campsite in the dark our first encounter with an enormous wombat occurred. Check out the size of the one standing in front of Arthur and Iona when we donned head lamps and went for a night walk.
I made my first ever damper loaf in the fire coals and it was delicious!! We had great chunks of it before dinner but it would have been even better baked fresh for brekkie with lumps of butter and dripping with honey!
The obligatory toasted marshmallows!
One of the best pastimes at Coolendell is walking to the top section of the curve of the Shoalhaven River that curls around the campsite and drifting down the river on a lilo. You go through two or three sets of very gentle rapids (at least they were gentle this time with fairly low water levels) and end up beneath 'jump rock' where kids and adults jump from three different heights into 30 feet of water below.
We also took our sea kayak so Dunc took the 'mother ship' out with Tenz and Iona aboard and towed a line of four boys on lilos (our three and Hamish Howe).
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