Blogs from Busselton, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania

The flight to Perth was, thankfully, again, a relatively painless experience. We arrived at about midnight local time. Senan had been accosted by sleep on the plane about 2 hours previous, but sadly Qantas didn't get the concept of the need for a buggy at the plane door as we were curtly informed that it was 'available at oversized luggage'. In fairness it wasn't a huge walk, but the buggy would have been welcome rather than carrying the dead weight of a sleeping child through the queues at immigration. Fortunately, despite a few protests, he accepted being transferred into the sling and carried on sleeping as I carried him on my back all the way out of the airport. We quickly checked in at the Aurum Airport Apartments where we scored some breakfast bags for the ... read more

I realised that I have only done 1 blog this time and as I have just arrived home decided to remedy this. I think I was having such a chilled out time slipping into Ozzie life that there wasn't the need to write about it too much. But I went on a fab cultural Aborigine trip to see how tools and fire were made and we went into the Ngligli cave and the guide played his didgeridoo and told the creation story - very atmospheric. He told us a lot about the Aborigine life years ago. Did anyone know there are 6 seasons not 4?? No me neither. I planned a jaunt south to Margaret River and Augusta but very unseasonably there was so much rain ( Yes I know should have been 30+ degrees) for ... read more

Simmo's Delicious Dilemma's 17/05/2015 Is it the end of an era I wondered as we sat outside Simmo's drinking coffee and having a cheeky ice cream this morning, well we were celebrating our lotto win! Yesterday did not lend itself to doing an awful lot so we made the most of our downtime and as the weather was pulling in again for another rough evening, we couldn't be too bothered to get dressed up and go out for dinner so our best bet was to grab a takeaway pizza in town and head back to camp. Before I had even got back in Roobie, Andy had a glass of Riesling poured for me, a bottle of beer for himself open and on the table sat next to the two pizza boxes. The wind was gently buffeting ... read more

Sneaking Off for the weekend. "Not a good weekend to choose to go away Caroline!" the words of a colleague are reverberating in my head as we head South on the freeway. Earlier in the week Andy and I decided that we would go away for the weekend, for a change on our own, no friends, no socialising with our 4 wheel drive club, just us for a bit of down time. I wanted to go to Busselton, we have driven right past it once and we always seem to manage around the Bunbury area, but never made it to Busselton. I have a few colleagues familiar with this area so throughout the week, we chuckled about the weather forecast which predicted a shocking amount of rain and a possible thunderstorm to come through, but I ... read more

Thursday 24th April - had stopped for the night in a rest area at Tunney so up and away early to Busselton. The sun was shining so we headed for the beachfront, parked up, and had a coffee in Goose a very nice beachside cafe before embarking on the 1 mile long jetty. Before setting off noticed some activity just off the beach and it was a large pod of dolphins so hung around and took some photos. The jetty is amazing, has been refurbished and repaired since a fire in 1998 destroyed a 50 metre section. Lots of fishermen along the jetty, the water is incredibly clear and we could see a eagle ray, loads of smaller fish which Clive and Aidy could identify for us plus a couple of larger ones. On our way ... read more