Dave took the call from his mate Phil.
"Sorry Dave, there's a bit of a change to the camping plans. The girls' plans fell through and so they said that with nothing else to do, they wanted to come down to the lake with us."
"Damn, there goes the swearing drinking and fun," Dave laughed. He didn't really mind. He got along really well with Phil's wife May and knew that she'd be fine with them drinking and swearing as much as they wanted. As to their daughter, April, well he had mixed feelings about her coming along. On the plus side, she was hot; truly truly hot. On the other side, Dave knew that with a couple of drinks under his belt, he was likely to start flirting outrageously and in front of her parents that wasn't such a good idea. Through the quirks of fate, there was less years between Dave and April than there was between Dave and Phil, which in his mind made it more dangerous.
Phil had got May pregnant by accident early in their relationship and though they'd been teenage parents, they'd truly found love and managed to avoid the fate of so many others in their position and were still together 18 years later.
Dave worked with Phil and despite Phil being 38 and Dave only being 26, they'd hit it off well enough and often went camping out by the lake together.
"Hah, I don't think we'll have a huge problem," Phil laughed back down the phone. "Anyway, departure time is the same; we're still away at 5am so that we can get the best out of the long weekend. Of course, we'll probably have to dump April in the car still asleep given the times that she usually wakes up on the weekend. Shit, we're lucky if she's even back from partying by 5am to get out of bed!"
"No problem Phil, I'll even chuck in a couple of girly drinks for them so they don't bitch and moan too much," Dave laughed.
On the day of departure, Phil drove past Dave's place to rendezvous before heading off to the lake. Dave laughed when he saw Phil's 4WD pull up in the drive way. It was absolutely packed to the roof.
"What happened mate, looks like your camping gear has been breeding!" Phil raised his eyebrows and nodded his head at the passenger and back seats where May and April were sitting and shook his head. May grinned at Dave and wound the window down to say hello, knowing what was going on, whilst April sat with her head against the window, obviously asleep.
Dave went back and shut the door to the house and jumped in his ute. In contrast to Phil's car, the only thing that seemed to take up any room was the canoe that he had lashed to the custom built frame.
"Hope you found room for some grog in there," Dave said as he climbed behind the driver seat in the pre-dawn gloom.
"Ha, there's enough to at least get me through the first day," Phil replied. With that they backed out of the drive way and headed off out of town to the lake.
On arrival, Dave climbed out of his ute and stretched, watching as Phil and family climbed out of their 4WD. His eyes were snared by the sight of April as she stepped down from the back seat, her shoulder length ash blonde hair messed about her head before she pulled it back with her hands. As her hands went back, she thrust her chest out and Dave eyed the sight of her firm breasts sticking out from her chest. Her stomach was flat, and her legs long and lithe.
Only with reluctance did Dave tear his gaze away as the sound of May's door opening brought him back to where he was. "Geez," he thought to himself, "I haven't even had a drink yet, this could be tough!"
"Not too early for you is it?" he called out to April as she turned in his direction. She smiled sheepily at him, her elfin features lighting up.
"Of course it is, its Saturday for god's sake, I'm not supposed to be up for HOURS!"
"Oh well, you can always sleep in tomorrow I guess," Dave responded. May laughed.
"If you tell her that, we won't see her until after lunch," she said, drawing a sneer from her daughter.
Phil came around from the other side of the car and tossed a beer to Dave. "Here this will help you with setting up," he called, twisting the top of his own.
"God Phil, its not even 10am!" May said, shaking her head.
"Its tradition!" Dave and Phil said together, before laughing heartily.
"Where's mine then?" April asked.
"You ladies can help yourself, unless you intend to set up your own tent?"
"Not likely," April laughed, moving to seat herself on a nearby log.
Phil set about pulling gear from the back of his car and Dave moved to do the same, rolling his swag off the back and staking it out, tying off to a tree so that he'd have some head room in there. Moments later, he'd pulled the camping stove and cook gear out, put the esky in the shade and lifted down his canoe.
Turning to watch Phil, who was only part way through getting a tent up, he laughed heartily. "Need some help over there mate? I'm done."
"Yeah, get over here and do some real work you bastard," Phil laughed back.
Dave helped out and an hour later, the camp was all set, Phil and May having a tent to share with a smaller tent set apart for April. April was busy stashing her gear in her tent as the three older people perched themselves on chairs and relaxed for a while after the exertions of setting up.
After a thrown together lunch, April approached Dave and said, "So, this canoe, does it actually float? Or is it just so that you've got something to fall into when you're too drunk to manage the swag?"
"Very funny, of course it floats. It's rather good for catching fish too actually."
"Maybe you should take me for a paddle and show me just how well it does float then."
"Be happy to."
"Great, I'll just get changed into something a little more appropriate for canoeing then."
Dave watched as April disappeared into her tent, paying particular attention to the curves of her butt as the track pants she was wearing clung tightly to them.
He waited patiently until she reappeared and attempted to keep his mouth closed so that he avoided the desperate stare that was threatening to invade his face. As she climbed out of her tent he took in what constituted her change of attire. She'd swapped the track pants for a pair of cut-off denim shorts that barely contained her tight buttocks and a white t-shirt tied at the waist to reveal her taught, flat belly whilst at the same time accentuating her breasts.
"God, how can I survive time alone in a canoe with that?" he thought to himself. He grabbed the paddles and life jackets and threw them into the canoe before pulling it down to the water's edge. He heard April telling her parents that she and Dave were going for a ride in the canoe and not to expect them back for an hour or so.