Early start this morning so we could visit a couple of tourist spots on a gravel road before our checkout time of 10am. We arrived at the Hilltop Lookout - it was a cool and misty morning, and the view over the Nornalup Inlet and Southern Ocean was very pretty and worth getting up early to see. Next stop was the Giant Tingle Tree with a 1km loop track - a very pleasant walk and a great tree. We headed east, and just prior to Denmark, turned off to Greens Pool....

We packed up today with the Prelc's on one side and another friendly family on the other side heading back to Perth. All the children played around while the 3 families packed up. For us, our first stop was Manjimup to pick up the all-important car inspection papers that we need to register the car with the RMS in Sydney. Brunch was so good yesterday at the Tiger Cafe that we visited again for takeaway today and got on the road to Walpole by about 11am. It wa...

We all woke reasonably early and got ourselves organised for a dual family bike ride with the Prelc's. We left around 9.30am and headed to the Munda Biddi Trail. It was an undulating 8km on mostly fire trail type wide track through some beautiful forests into Deanmill town where we joined onto the actual track which was slightly narrower, and nice and flat through farmland and trees for about 5km and then we were into Manjimup town just as it started to sprinkl...

We took our time packing up and had bacon & eggs for brekky, eventually leaving around 10.30 to our next destination the Southern Forest area of south western WA. We stopped at Nannup for morning tea and arrived at Fonty's Pool around 1pm where we set up right next to the Prelc family, so that was most convenient! This area is well known for its hugely tall Karri Trees, so we visited the Diamond Tree which is a fairly short 52 metre one, compared to the nea...

Relaxing start to the day with a bit of go-karting for Renee & Eamon around the caravan park, and bacon and eggs for breakfast all round. Today was spent visiting places in the northern part of the Margaret River area, starting with a winery that Mum couldn't resist due purely because of its interesting name - "Swings & Roundabouts". It was a great little place with a beaut lawn and games for Renee & Eamon to play including cricket, soccer, tether t...