Easter Weekend: Crescent Head Camping

Camping at Crescent Head: tents, the ocean, singing by the camp fire, Smores and oh yeah, fire twirling - of course.

Every year a group of friends (about 25 people) head out to Crescent Head for Easter weekend camping. It's about 5 hours outside of Sydney and sits inland only enough to barely hear the waves of the ocean crashing late at night.

Our site was set up right along the river that feeds into the ocean, so we had the calm all around us. The weekend was lazy (as any good camping weekend should be.) During the day we would hang around BBQing and drinking wine/beer, then head down to the ocean for a nice swim.

At night we would gather at the beach for a rousing game of Cricket, my first attempt!

There were a few firsts that I was happy to see: My first Kangaroo spotting while camping (they were drinking from the river right by our camp), my first game of beach Cricket, and oh yes... my personal favorite: my first leech. Thats right, I got bitten (or sucked) by a leech!! Right in between the toes! I wasnt the only one either a few of us, some got it worse than others from wearing sandles near the edge of the river - where apparently they like to hang out.

At night we would sit around the camp fire, chatting, singing to the guitar, watching a friend twirl some fire (see video) and finally, Smores! Though this may not seem all that exciting to Americans, Smores are something that have never been experienced in Australia. For one, there are no Graham Crackers and no Hersheys and two, marshmallows are not the same. So I took the remaining Smore rations I had brought back from home in Dec, and introduced the Australians to a good old fashion Smore!

Not shockingly, they were a big hit!