Last night when we went to bed we had just seen a few flashes of lightening.

Strangely there had been high wind through the evening (and not from Stewarts bottom for once) and as we went to bed the wind completely dropped.

As we got into our beds the heavens opened, and for what seemed like forever the rain bucketed down hard onto the camp.  Fraser was snuggled in his tent, completely oblivious to what can only be described as biblical rain! The thunder rumbled and the lightening lit up the whole sky.  Lady Penelope in her double bed beneath us was warm and dry as toast.  Stew and I took it in turns to get up and remove the water pools from the canopy outside the van, but in the end the weight of water was just too much for it and it ripped under the strain! We have well used our sun awning over the last few years, and will be definitely investing in another.  https://www.funkyleisure.co.uk/vw-t2t25-camper-van-sun-canopy-awning–brilliant-orange-10771-p.asp

The next morning as we woke up we could hear the rest of the campsite cleaning up from the storm.   As fraser staggered into the van he was baffled as to why his pillow was wet! The tent survived the storm remarkably well, with the only casualty being his pillow… as we walked around the rest of the camp it was cleat that others hadn’t been as lucky!

I headed on into town with Penny to get supplies (after id eaten all the cheese the night before!) as we had visitors arriving!

When the Hythe Adamsons arrived at camp we headed to the beach to get some clams ready for dinner tomorrow night.  All the children (and adults) loved collecting the clams and it was absolutely teaming with the shell fish. I do wonder if the storm the night before had confused them! with a huge bucket full we headed back to camp, opened some wine and oysters and settled down for a long relaxing lunch!

Once the other Adamsons had checked into their tent, we went back to the beach with the paddle boards and got the boat out.  We all went out to the ponton in the middle of the sea which aside from being covered in bird poop made a fun adventure and Fraser and Joel particularly enjoyed the ride back being towed on the paddle boards!

We got ready and headed to the campsite for more seafood and fun before setting back into our beds.