Apr. 19, 2009 - Our Trip

We spent three months travelling from just before Christmas to mid March. This was a part holiday/part deputation time, with 15,363 kilometres of family bonding time in the car! We drove from Kununurra in Australia's Nth West (our home) across to the Northern Territory and down South to my parent's home in Murray Bridge, Sth Australia, across to Phillip Island in Victoria for a Creation Supercamp, back to Mum & Dad's home in SA then West to the Eyre Peninsula to visit friends/church, then further West, across the Nullabor to visit Greg's family in Albany. We spent three weeks there catching up with family, friends and supporters, visiting churches and then drove up through the Sth West, stopping with home educating friends on a farm, then up Nth to Perth (WA capital city) to stay with more homeschooling friends. Finally, a week on our own in Perth city and then further Nth to home, via Coral Bay and Point Sampson.

How did we home educate along the way? Well, because we were on holiday we were pretty relaxed about formal education, but our older children learned a WHOLE heap at the Creation Supercamp joining in with all of the lectures. This was creation science at its best. Creation Ministries International sure know their stuff! The Creation Supercamp also offered opportunity for adventure. Hayley and Jacob had a blast going on some high ropes and high swing, something they don't get to do normally.

We greatly benefitted by listening to the Jonathan Park adventure audio series in the car. We were all hooked on that one! We caught up on extended family time, which is something that we miss normally, living so far away. We had to work together as a family every time we set up and packed up our camper trailer.

Greg used practical maths by getting the older two to record and calculate fuel economy each time we filled up with deisel. (They did pages of calculations!) They had to keep up a journal for the whole trip and took extensive notes at all the Creation Camp lectures. Then there were some opportunities for the classic "field trip" like an afternoon at "Whale World". This was fantastic for all of us. Hayley (15) and Jacob (13) spent over an hour on the old whaling boat they had there, exploring all its nooks and crannies. We enjoyed a ride on a glass bottomed boat in Coral Bay, viewing the beautiful variety of fish on the Ningaloo Reef. The older two got to ride on Uncle Tom's very fast and powerful jet ski, which was a great thrill to them.