"A Bonzer Bank Holiday Weekend" They say that when you go out in WA in Spring you should dress to be prepared for all four seasons in one day. Well that's certainly been true for the past week. In just a few days we have experienced cold, wet and very windy and then just in time for the bank holiday weekend it has turned sizzling hot hot hot. Consequently our level of activity has waned a bit. Saturday saw us in the Settlers Arms at Margaret River. Most of the ...

"One for our grandchildren" Hello Mattie and Katy we thought of you today and wished you were with us to enjoy a ride on this little red train. It is not as good as the train at Pecorama but it was special as it took us over the sea to the end of a long jetty. Busselton Jetty is very old and is the longest wooden jetty on this side of the world. At over a mile long they needed a train to take goods to and from the big ships that used to sail here before it was p...

Our days drive back to Cowaramup was exceedingly wet so not much to report as we did not linger. It's possible the bandicoots that yellow triangles were warning of were out there, but we did not see them through the rain. Our focus today was inside the car where we listened to Dorothy's early show on Albany community radio until she faded out of range. 1950's songs and the occasional band of pipers were from her home collection and the weather is sponsored by A...

"There she blows" or "Didn't we have a lovely time the day we went to Albany" What a good decision to stay on for an extra day. We have really enjoyed our day in the port, ex whaling town and seaside resort of Albany. (Thank you Bunty & Bruce for the suggestion) We got off to a good start by going for brunch at the Emu Point Cafe on Oyster Bay. New to us road warning signs on the way asked us to watch out for long necked turtles. Sadly we saw none but over ...

From Pemberton to Walpole and the Valley of the Giants. Our amazing arboreal adventure continued today as we drove further east through more forests of these incredibly tall trees. There are restrictions now on logging but what such hard work it must have been for those early pioneers to clear areas of land for settlements and agriculture. The hotel bar last night was full of old photographs of loggers felling huge trees with by today's standards pretty crude to...