For Christmas, we decided that we'd like to take a break from driving and rest in one place for a few days, hopefully somewhere where we could have a BBQ on the beach, whilst getting a sun tan;) We booked ourselves into a cabin in the Kalimna Woods by Lakes Entrance, which is also the location of 90 mile beach. As the name suggests we were in the middle of the forest, surrounded by wildlife, with lakes and beach only 5 minutes walk away. This place turned out to be great and really relaxing, we were hoping for better weather but it turned out to be a lot like England weather ;(
View over looking Lakes Entrance
Our log cabin is pretty cool, with a fire place (for the evenings only as people see the smoke and think there is a bush fire and call the police - fires have been raging for about 2 months!!), it also has a spa bath in the bedroom and a dvd/vhs player with the telly. There are a few dated videos in reception, so we grab a few which include the Christmas smash hit Die Hard...
The owner, John, showed us around and pointed out the little bellbirds nesting and how he could tell what was going on in the forest by the tone of their calls. There were two nests both with little eggs in them and it was just amazing to see how small they were. They were also about to hatch any day now. By our cabin there was a nest that had two eggs in so we watched it daily to check if they hatched...
Once settled, Marc opened up some of the Christmas goodies he brought in Melbourne. Evelyn knew Marc had brought a few deco's after she said "it didn't feel like Christmas" - we cant be having that now ;) So the Chrissy tunes went on and out came the tinsel, star, Santa koala, napkins, crackers and beads, not forgetting the reindeer we picked up before. So despite not being at home, and Christmas having a slightly weird feeling, we still managed to get in the spirit ;)
We decided it best to do our food shopping for Chrissy and spent a small fortune; we probably should have had lunch before buying all the food! No matter what the weather, we wouldn't go hungry;) We then entertained ourselves by playing some mini-golf, which Ev won 54 vs. 57 :) This was a really cool course as there were several ways to play each hole, and each hole had a different theme...
For dinner we decided to go to the only open place around – The Boathouse. This was quite posh and there was barely a whisper in the place. The food was really nice though.
After filling up we tried to call the family but sadly we didn’t succeed and ended up heading home, and began to watch Die Hard... We then headed to bed at which point we noticed that we weren't going to be alone this Christmas Eve. The ceiling was covered with loads (about 30) little spiders. They weren't moving much but thats not the point, they could still come down and nibble on us - it was at this point that Marc requested to have a night light on :)
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