My favourite moments

"Play is the work of children" J Piaget.

One of the main reasons I love to camp is because there are not many restrictions on what you do or how you do it. It allows plenty of time to just "hang out", encouraging the kids to become more creative, meet new people, get along with each other and just play. Watching this happen is always my favourite moments of a camping trip. Here are a few from our 18 night road trip to Victoria and back.

Our site at Cann river was a bush camp so with the abundance of leaves the kids decided to use them as tags and wrote on them. We each had a "place card" for dinner as well as other items being labeled.

The kids road their bikes nearly every day. It gave them so much independence and while in caravan parks allowed them the freedom to explore on their own. 

This river was right beside our campsite and was so nice to cool off in.  The kids had a great time playing with two others who came down for a swim, and weren't turned off by the eels!

We joined in with a two hour ranger walk along Cape Woolamai to the Pinnacles. Although we started off with them, half way through we lagged a bit behind ( little legs couldn't keep up!) so we made our own way home.

We found a labyrinth cut into the grass at San Remo. After running through it and finding the way in and out, the kids used their small toys to play a game which lasted nearly two hours! Luckily we weren't in any rush and I had a book I wanted to finish!

This was another spontaneous stop when coming back from the deep space station in Canberra. It was hot so we decided to stop of for a swim. Jay was determined to catch some tadpoles and spent ages hunting them down.

 A fellow camper suggested to us, to make sure we went up to the roof of the Parliment house to see the views of Canberra. I not sure how much Ivy saw of the view but she did enjoy practising her somersaults! 

The kids were very quick to make friends with complete strangers where ever we stopped and sometimes it was hard to move on.

Check out more playing here ( I had to explain the rules of "fly" to Ivy again, she was a bit confused why Jay moved the shoe!) 

Mumma Bear.