Flashback - Murray River Camping Trip!!

Huntsmen spiders, koalas (falling from trees) and more are what we found found when Jay and Melissa took us camping along the Murray River from Dec 27th to 29th. Nick and I were ecstatic to experience the Aussie Camping Experience first hand and our hosts were amazing!! After unloading the ute - we put up the tent - it was the Taj Mahal along the Murray I reckon!! - then we needed fuel for the evening fire!! We went and collected some "small" branches and Jay and Nick thoroughly enjoyed this part of the experience. Remnants of "I'm a lumberjack" song rang true indeed!
The first night the boys enjoyed a swim and we had a fine bbq Aussie style! We ate like kings - kabobs and burgers - sustenance after the wood collecting!! Nick was surprised by a koala with its baby on its back who strolled by him as he stood by the fire. We watched her climb a nearby tree.
The next day we enjoyed breaky and so did the millions of flies which dined with/on us! Spending time at the beach, swimming in the Murray (well letting the Murray current take us along) and just chilling was just right for the four of us. Speaking of the currrent in the Murray - you swam as fast as you could and did not move - great exercise but you got nowhere!! Nick was really amazed at the great Murray Kayak race that we watched go by us on Sunday morning. In fact we saw the same people racing the next day at Echuca - man they must have been tired!! Sunday ended with another fine meal and a great fire. Of course one of the crazy Canadians wanted to show these Aussie hosts how to make s'mores on the fire so we attempted this to great laughter. Despite the white and pink marshmallows melting into a gigantic mass (Aussie summers are a wee bit hotter than Canadian summers) and we could not find graham crackers, we improvised as best as we could. We had lots of dairy milk chocolate so it all turned out well - albeit tremendously sticky!! The next day the awesome adventure continued - as we packed up, various huntsmen spiders had to be evicted from underneath the tent and Nick was quite scared by it all!! The size of the spiders gave him the creeps! Also the mom and baby koala actually fell out of a tree and almost landed on another camper! This was exciting and thankfully the two koalas were okay. After this we travelled to Echuca and checked out the sites then returned to Kilmore. Thank you to our awesome hosts who we hope to have camping in Canada with us soon too!!