Category: Western Australia

Chocolate, cheese and wine. So read our list of expenses for Monday third of October. It can therefore only be concluded that we were in Margaret River. The chocolate was from the Margaret River Chocolate Factory, the cheese from the Margaret River Dairy Company and the wine, a 2009 Shiraz, was from the Laurance Estate.

There are more than a hundred different wineries between Cape Leeuwin in the south and Cape Naturaliste in the the north. There are also five breweries and at least three different mazes. Completing a maze seemed a bit much after a winery so we mainly visited those brewing establishments that had children’s playgrounds. The 2011 visitors guide provides a very handy list of such establishments. Continue reading “Day 88-91 Chocolate, cheese and wine” →

Busselton has a jetty. It’s a long jetty. 1836 metres to be precise. That’s a long jetty. I think that’s all there is to Busselton. A jetty. But it is a good jetty. I like jetties and Busselton has a long one.

Apparently the length of the Busselton Jetty also makes it very difficult to navigate without getting lost. Why else would the little tourist train, which runs visitors out to the under water observatory at the end, have a Navman GPS unit firmly attached to the windscreen? ‘No not left, and not right, I said straight ahead!’, is what I didn’t have to shout in order to get out to the end of the Busselton Jetty. The driver simply followed the GPS… and the train tracks. Continue reading “Day 85-87 BIG… Jetty and whales” →

We did rush down the WA coast a little. We could have lingered longer at quite a few places, but we had mail to collect, and as it included Greg’s Fremantle Half Marathon package we needed it before the weekend. So we arrived Friday afternoon after a really easy drive across Perth. It was strange being in Perth in our own car, having only ever flown there previously. The highways were surprisingly straightforward and our caravan park at Coogee Beach was great. Continue reading “Day 80-83 Fremantle” →