Blogs from Denmark, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 4

Saturday 21st March When we reached Steve & Kerry’s we found a note on the gate telling us to make ourselves at home and to be careful not to damage the van going up the track to the house. Steve had been very thoughtful and sawn low branches off and generally cleared the way. We had no problems! After set-up, Judy had a rest as she still not right, whilst Rags climbed the hill to the back paddock where Steve was building a shed next door to the house he built for his daughter. Interesting house, octagonal, with lots of windows and views all the way to the coast. He spent some time helping Steve and his daughter, Shannon, put some iron cladding up, until he called it a day. Kerry returned soon after from her ... read more

When the alarm went off I did my best to persuade Matt that getting up now was a bad idea and we’d be much more productive if we had a bit more sleep. He agreed and we finally got up an hour and a half later feeling much better. When we opened up the curtains we saw that it was raining and cloudy. It was the first rain we’d seen on the west coast and it was a shock. The weather had been getting cooler since crossing the tropic line and even though I wasn’t cold in long shorts and a t-shirt, it was hardly the bikini weather we’d been used to. We’d managed to make up some time by doing longer journeyes and staying less time at some places so it meant we now had ... read more

Oct 16 Love the Peppermint Eco Caravan Park!! Booked on the BushTucker Wine tour. Small group of 11. Guide/driver was fabulous with tidbits of area history & information on the flora & fauna. Visited 4 wineries, 1 distillery, chocolate factory and cheese outlet. All great. Lunch was made up of various bush tucker and seeing that Gary & I were the furthest away we got to try a whole wichitty grub. Not bad, but better blended into a dip. The grub was dead, btw. Kangaroo meat, ham, turkey and various chutneys, dips, and sauces made out of ???? Enjoyed it all. Oct 17 Bussleton to Cape Leeuwin to Pemberton Cape Leeuwin is the most south westerly part of Australia and has a working lighthouse. The Tourism group there has an agreement with the government to be ... read more

After surviving the night with the Blair witch we started to head towards Denmark. The first stop of the day was at the Tree Top Walk to look at the giant red tingle trees. Now, in Australia there is quite a nasty spider called a red back. I had never seen one (and hoped not to either) but I assume at least some of the spider is red. As we were driving along I happened to look down and there on my leg was a little red and black spider. I can't remember my exact words but I'm sure you can all imagine. Rhod dispensed of the beast and we set to work trying to establish what it was. Our road map has a very limited guide to Australian flora and fauna and I decided that ... read more

ok so it's been a few days since we've had the chance to update the blog due to lack of decent towns with internet cafe's. most of the towns we come through look like something off bonanza! anyway, we headed down to Augusta,which was really windy,i was fighting with the van to keep it upright,not the most aerodynamic those vans you know? so we travelled to practically the end of the earth and landed at a circular carpark with a huge lighthouse right at the end. we paid our $24 and had a wander around before the tour started. it was just the 2 of us on the tour so it was pretty cool. this woman showed us around and took us up the 176 stairs to the top. fortunatly there were stop-off platforms every now ... read more