Cabarita beach was the next of our scheduled catchups, this time with Craig and Dawn, who we hadn’t seen since before the kids were born and we were all looking forward to it. For the record, Craig was an Aussie who spent a few years at Stretford Cricket club and he married Dawn who very sensibly left Urmston to go and live in the colonies.

We managed to book into North Star Holiday Resort in Hastings, which was a stones throw from Cabarita and managed to squeeze in for a two-night stop (three-night minimum was apparently required). The park was extremely busy, and it turns out that the Monday was a Queensland public holiday. So although we were in NSW, it was close enough for the Queeeenslanders to make use of it.

The park was pretty plush. Sites were on plastic grass, there was an onsite restaurant, loads of water-play stuff. It actually felt like a bit of a pseudo-carvan park, as we weren’t used to those kind of “luxury”facilities but it wasn’t such a bad thing, relaxing with a brew on fancy sun-loungers whilst the kids were playing.

On the way to Cabarita, we swung past Lennox Heads. Great beach, but it was a only a quick stop unfortunately. But it did give us time to stretch our legs, and almost the hammy’s.

We arrived around lunctime, and arranged a catch up with Craig and familly a couple of hours later. Where else, but down the beach. The kids had a big swim and a body-surf in the ocean, got on like a house on fire with Griff, their new best mate, and we bumped into a load of horse-riders. Us grown-ups had a great catchup, so much so that photo’s were almost skipped but luckily Craig managed to sneak in a cracker of a group-selfie.

We finished off the evening with another great catchup over at Craig and Dawn’s who threw us a feed, and we chatted away until it was time to go. It was a great catchup and a top day all round.