25 Mar 10 - Kingston

By Lou: Really enjoyed our 4 days in Kingston. Our campsite in the caravan park was beachfront (if you don’t count a 2 lane road in between) including an expanse of grassed foreshore for Sam to run amok on within our sight. Craig got his fishing rods fixed and took Sam fishing while I hired and watched the movie ‘The Reader’ back at camp and savoured the peace. Good flick too.


One afternoon when we’d returned to camp, Sam’s eyes widened at the sight of two boys emerging from the campervan set up next to us. Immediately Sam asked if he could say hello and within seconds he’d caught the eye of the youngest and crouched down into mock attack position, just like Molly our dog does when she sees another dog to play with. Angus giggled and we couldn’t separate them for the rest of the day. It turns out Tom, Audrey, Henry (11yo) and Angus (8yo) are at the 11th hour of their year travelling around Australia and now heading home to Kalgoorlie WA. We all clicked and had a good chinwag that evening and the next morning we all bolted over to the beach when we saw a pod of dophins frolicking along the shoreline. We were a bit late with the camera but the boys quite liked the opportunity to have a splash themselves. When our new friends departed the next day we exchanged contact details, sorry to see them go so soon.







By Craig: Kingston provided a good chance to relax, get the rods fixed and do some beach fishing along the Younghusband Peninsula. The photo here I called 'On the Beach' and entered into the ExplorOz 2010 photo competition along with 5 other photos.
Kingston was a lovely setting and I enjoyed a walk into town and the all too brief opportunity to chat with Tom and Audrey while the children played together.

It was great being able to chat with another guy who’d been doing similar travels and getting ideas and exchanging stories and unfortunately the following day we said goodbye as they made their way back to Kalgoorlie. During conversation I did note that they had mentioned that they were stopping at Streaky Bay to catch up with friends they’d met up north and also hiring a houseboat on the Murray as the finale to their trip around Australia.