Today was an eventful day. We watched the dolphins swim by as we were having breakfast. A perfect way to start the morning.

Max and Adam up early fishing.
Bear Grills made a home made bait trap and after placing it in the water cut his foot on an oyster shell on some rocks. He was very brave saying “he thinks he hurt his foot”. Adam and I nearly died when we looked and saw all the blood and the flesh on the inside of his foot. It was nasty….

We had to go to the next town Maclean to see a doctor as the doc at Iluka was not available on Fridays of course (country towns!). On the way we decided to look around the area. Iluka has a World Heritage Coastal National Park. This place is amazing and we can’t understand why it is so quiet. We drove along the beach which we have been trying to do all holidays but never having the right opportunity. It’s exciting putting the car in 4WD and clutching the dash, the kids were so excited. The beach was beautiful. It was a thrill and glad we survived it. If we had more time here we would have loved to do some surf fishing.

Arriving at Maclean it was a much larger town and really nice, Max’s foot was thoroughly cleaned, bandaged and his on antibiotics for a week because it’s wasn’t a very clean cut. He told the doctor he needed waterproof bandages as he had a bait trap to retrieve from the water!!!! She loved her fishing and listened to all his concerns 😄.
We stayed in town for morning tea. On the way back to Iluka we checked out Woody Point camping grounds in the Iluka National Park. It was so good right on the surf beach and so well maintained with perfect lawns, BBQ areas and wildlife everywhere. We definitely are coming back to this place.
We did a walk to Bluff Point lookout and so glad we did, as we saw 2 whales passing by. It was miles out so we couldn’t get a photo but we were excited. There were also heaps of Sea
Eagles flying above us.
Some more fishing in the afternoon and now watching the footy!!!
Go Swans !!!