This has been the day for visiting some fantastic beaches (see the album of photos). It is still the school holidays here but there was virtually noone on the beaches at all - just a few families! We drove west from Busselton to Dunsborough - a beautiful white sand beach. Then to Meelup Beach - a small sand white sand beach. Then to Eagle Bay - a large white sand beach. Then to Bunker Bay - a large white sand beach. At each beach the water was crystal clear ...

Margaret River Chocolate Factory - Heaven for Mick. Here they have a huge array of different chocolates in various guises - milk, white, dark, sugar free etc. but they are very expensive. You can take handfuls of little chocolate drops to taste and some people had plastic bags and were filling them up!!!! Outside the factory was my idea of heaven - rows and rows of vines! Now I know a lot of you think I'm a 'wino' but I have had very little wine since we have be...

It's Australia Day today and there are celebrations everywhere and people driving around with the Australian flag attached to their cars. Everybody is very proud of their country. This morning we visited friends of Maureen's who bought their old house. They have turned their back garden into a vegetable plot so I was in my element! And, what a small world. This couple were originally from England and used to live in the area of South London where I was born and ...

Thanks for all the comments - we do appreciate them!! Not much to report on today. Yesterday we went to Bunbury again and had lunch in a Chinese restaurant which was lovely. The food was delicious and slightly different to Chinese restaurants in England. Mick went out with Vylic (Maureen's husband) in the afternoon so I decided to go for a walk along the beach. I walked for 20 minutes along the beach to a groyne, turned round and walked back again and I must ...

We were up early to catch the 9:00 train along Busselton jetty. Apparently Southend pier is still the longest and not Busselton. Busselton jetty has been rebuilt because it was damaged by storms some years ago. The train ride took about 20 minutes to the end where there is an underwater world so we could see all the underwater life in the sea at the end of the jetty. It was brilliant!! We saw barnacles, coral, shoals of small fish, angel fish and a peculiar fish ...