Day 174 Thursday 28th

inside away from the cold and wet

Visited breweries, chocolate factories and providores today to get a taste of the region. Weather is still pretty crap. Cold and rainy.

Day 173 wed 27th

Drove 280k to Perth to get boys from airport. Arrive back at 8.45pm and we are all completely exhausted.

Day 172 Tues 26th

Watched the owner feed the kangaroos before driving to Margaret River looking at the many trees and branches fallen during the storms. As soon as we reach Margaret River there is a torrential downpour and the streets are flooded and we have to move the car from the carpark as we fear the water will come up through the caravan floor.

Day 171 Mon 25

Wake to a very cold day before driving to “Round Tuit’caravan park near Northcliff. Set up and drive to beautiful Windy Harbour where we see our first whale a long way out. Catch a small flathead from another ‘Salmon Beach’.

Cathedral Point

Day 170 sun 24

Drive up to the deserted timber cutting village of Shannon. The afternoon is warm and sunny and we indulge ourselves by sitting in the sun and reading before walking through the village sites without any buildings as they have been removed when the sawmill shut down.

at last we get to have a fire

Day 169 Sat 23

Spend the day fishing for tiny bream from the kayak at Irwin Inlet. The clouds clear and the wind drops and we end up having a great day.

Day 168 Friday 22

Tingle Tree

You shall not pass!!!

Spent the morning visiting ‘The Valley of the Giants Tree Top Walk’which we loved except Kelli got motion sickness. Lunch in Walpole and bushwalking at ‘Normalup Inlet’. The suffix úp’ means ‘place of’ in Aboriginal language and is used everywhere in the south east.