Mum, dad and nine kids ... plus one for the road

When Roy and Emma Stewart want to bathe their nine children they light a fire under a steel bathtub outside their bus.
And three weeks from now, when Mr Stewart delivers his wife's baby boy in the bus, there will be 10 youngsters living in the orange and white Bedford they call home.
The Stewarts may be one of the Bay's biggest families but they're still able to live the type of pioneer lifestyle no longer seen in this part of the world.
They're living proof it's possible to survive without electricity, while living in a bus in a paddock, while delivering their own babies.
There would be few hot water cylinders big enough to bathe the whole family anyway - so they have created their own way of washing.
The bath is filled with cold water and a fire sparked beneath it. As each member of the family finishes their dip, the bath is topped up with more fresh water and the fire stoked.
"It works well for us and it only takes 20 minutes for the water to heat," Mr Stewart said.
The family's daily activities are dictated by the weather but typically they rise at dawn. The wood stove in the bus billows into action, ready to cook 10 loaves of bread for the day, while the children, aged between one and 15, pack up their beds and breakfast on yoghurt and fruit.
If the surf's up they head for the beach. All the children have their own fluro-orange wetsuits for safety reasons. "It gets pretty hard to do a head count when they are all in the water but with the bright orange it makes it much easier and safer," Mr Stewart said.
On other days the children can be found completing their home-schooling exercises. Between them, Mr and Mrs Stewart have degrees in arts and geology. They believed their children were not missing out on going to school and "every day was a learning day" for them.
With no television, the children keep busy reading books, making stereos, sewing, doing woodwork and looking after their pet birds, cats and dogs and 20 mice. The oldest of the bunch, Patrick, aged 15, said he was looking forward to having another sibling and had already made a cradle for him. Life with so many was great, he said. "It's chaotic but I can't imagine it any other way," he said.
The food bill was a cheap $400 a fortnight, with the whole family being vegetarian. A 60kg bag of carrots and 50kg sacks of potatoes kept them fuelled and they munch through mountains of fruit - much of it given to them. The family has lived in their bus, a trailer and campervan in various places around the Western Bay for eight years, including three years in Aerodrome Rd.
They have also parked up at Sulphur Point for three months and at other boat ramps around town. They have been in Welcome Bay for the past 18 months but are now looking for a paddock or park closer to town.