Exeter Aircooled Australia Branch welcomes South West Splits...

A phone call to Gav and Faye before Christmas highlighted the potential for a catch up early in the new year. Our second phone call was on Friday afternoon from Gav who had already arrived in Newcastle from Sydney (a two hour drive!) We hooked them up with a camp site and went down to collect them. They had a fantastic little spot right on the Lake for one of their soon to be exported campers. We collected them and hit down for bite to eat and then a premier of a surf film all about surfers being towed into Super Typhoon waves off Japan.... crazy! It was a lovely evening if a little breezy (I know we'll get no sympathy!!) and it was certainly good to see some familiar faces and hear familiar accents!

On the Saturday we again collect Gav and Faye to take them out on the Lake for the day. It was great of Matt and Sharron to take them out, but it's something that is very much open to all visitors!! We had a great day, soured only by Faye's shorts being lost to the bottom of the Lake! It must have been something of a daunting experience as Gav and Faye were soon introduced to more people than they had bargained for... however they received the usual warm Aussie welcome, had drinks thrust into their hands when they may not have wanted them and talk of cricket whitewashes was kept to a minimum.

After a long day we returned home to shower before hitting the town again for a nice meal followed up with a meeting with Matt and Sharron for coffee afterwards. It was a pretty full on couple of days but it shows you all what you're missing if you don't save those pennies!!!

Here's a nice clip of Gav being rag dolled across the Lake! "I like your work Gav!"