Blogs from Leeman, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania

Sunday 23rd April The day was glorious, and we set off to explore the town such as it is. Parked at the jetty and walked down to chat with the fishermen on a cray boat that had just been unloaded, Tippy was not sure about the water between the planks of the jetty he couldn’t work it out and stayed really close to us when we walked down. We watched a dolphin playing in the shallows one of the fishermen told us she had a baby with her, but we only saw the one. The place is bringing back lots of memories for Graeme from his days of fishing up here with his mates many years ago, good times, fortunately. We found a little park called Gecko Patch Hill, along the pathways were an assortment of ... read more

We left our lovely beach house early and headed south on the Brand Highway to Green Head, when we turned inland towards Lesueur Scenic Drive (within Beekeeper's Nature Reserve), with magnificent views. We travelled on a unsurfaced road for the first time. The exceptionally diverse variety of wildflowers and flora continues to amaze and delight us. Sue and Terry had visited before so were experienced guides. Photos below show a tiny selection of the plants. One of our favourite is Cat's paw but there were numerous Grass tree plants, Pixie Mops, Tea Trees, Purple flags, Geraldon Wax plants and hundreds of others. We also saw kangaroos! I spotted Emus along the way, in a field with cattle. We had to head back to Mandurah as unfortunately the glove box in the car had jammed. The keys ... read more