This is a nice caravan park but they didn't offer any discounts on an 8 night booking, which I think was pretty poor.
One of my brothers also came along and his wife joined him for a few days (in between work). His daughter, son in law and grand-daughter also joined us at Marion Bay for a while.
We arrived at Marion Bay on Friday (a week ago) and the weather started coming in later that day. Saturday was very wet and our annexe was flooded! We had a tarp down and it was like walking on a water bed. We had quite a bit of heavy rain and wind for the first few days so we spent a lot of time sitting around, chatting, doing craft stuff and evenings were spent playing games.
The evenings were pretty rowdy and occasionally heated - the women v. the men and Trivial Pursuit (SA version) was the 'best'!
The guys tried their hands at fishing as soon as the weather permitted but there was not much happening and we only had a fish feast once.
We did a bit of driving around on a couple of days - there are some really lovely spots down that way and we have sussed out some great free camping areas for future reference. We didn't go into Innes National Park this trip (we had done that before).
The poor cat didn't like this whole driving in the car and living in a caravan thing! She was terrified when we first took off and messed everywhere within the first 15 minutes. After we cleaned it up and cleaned her up she waited about another 10 minutes and did it all again. After that I managed to get her settled and she slept the rest of the trip. We had the same problem to start with on the return trip but again she settled and slept the rest of the way. She was pretty unsettled when she first went into the caravan and found a hiding spot where she stayed for a large part of the first day. She was a bit more adventurous on the second day and by the third day she was quite comfortable with the caravan and was venturing out into the annexe for short periods of time. By the end of the week she was happy to have her jacket and lead put on and she went for a walk outside. She was a little bit timid but she happily spent about half an hour exploring around the caravan. On about the third night she decided to do the whole 'mad cat' thing and race up and down the caravan at full speed about 5 times. Unfortunately she decided to do this at about 2am!!! Another night she decided the best sleeping spot was on Royce's head. Needless to say he wasn't amused and she didn't stay there for long.
It was a nice, relaxing trip - great friends, good location and best of all - no renovations for a week!!
