We sadly waved goodbye to the Monks, as they headed off to little piece of luxury, 3 nights in an apartment with Granny Ann and Poppy Blue...... We arrived in Perth to Aunty Ann and Uncle Steve's place!!! So excited to be there and enjoyed 6 nights with family. Was lovely to just laze around, and chat to Ann, Steve, Brady, Steven and Hana-and was extra special to have a play and cuddle with Luca!! Uncle Steve treated us to his beautiful cooking, and we enjoyed...

The drive down the coast to Perth saw us stop in at Lancelin, and over night at Ledge Point. Lancelin was fun-with massive sand dunes that we spent time running up and down!! Well the kids ran up-we struggled up on all fours. Our final stop before heading into Perth was the Gravity Discovery Center near Gingin. Here we had a ball doing loads of sciencey stuff. Exploring gravity, from a 42m tower, we dropped water balloons over the edge to demonstrate the e...

Met up with the Monks again at Jurion Bay, on our way, town hopping, to Perth. The Pinnacles was the highlight of this stop. A massive area covered in limestone, pointy rocks, set amongst sand dunes. A bit "moonscape" like. Was an easy walk around the formations-found some funny shapes and some adults only shapes too! We stopped off in another small town -Cervantes. Here we visited the Lobster Shack, and did a tour of the lobster processing plant. We were ...

Heading further south to Kalbarri. Staying at a working goat/cattle property just outside the township-Murchison House Station. The campground was on the banks of the Murchison River-a lovely spot, not far from the farm house. The station was owned by an Indian prince with an interest in tanks. The boys were thrilled to discover 2 tanks to play and climb all over! And all the kids spent hours role playing war games. We enjoyed having the farm animals close...

Pretty drive into Denham/Shark Bay area. Another cute little seaside town. It was really windy and quite cold-bit of a shock-but I guess the warm weather is over now as we head into cold/wet winter territory!! Spent the first day looking around the town, then headed off to Monkey Mia and the surrounds next day. Monkey Mia is a coastal reserve, with a resort on the beach, centered around interacting with dolphins. We headed straight down to the beach and watc...