Blogs from Dunsborough, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 2

Do you have a favourite place? Somewhere that is serene and calm and makes you want to just go there and hang out with nothing but the view and your thoughts? I do. It's Sugarloaf rock, in Dunsborough. Named after it's counterpart in Brazil perhaps, it just sits alone in the water, with no path but swimming a current to reach it. I'm happy to sit back and gaze at it, this tooth of Neptune that just waits as time passes. The tide comes in, the tide goes out, and through it all Sugarloaf rock exists. It makes me feel at peace. Beside it is another rock, and if you clamber down the hill of scree and pebbles, you can climb that hill, and discover another one. Climb the second one, and there's a third. There ... read more

After Fremantle, we headed South to Dunsborough - just under 300km - passing through Mandurah, Rockingham and Bunbury. Mandurah and Rockingham feel like the new Florida Keys with lots of new housing developments built around inlets and waterways - looked pretty stunning and you'd get a lot of house for your British Pound! We stopped off in Busselton for afternoon Tea - very bright but still a cold chill in the air. Busselton has the longest pier in the Southern Hemisphere at just under 2km. We would be back another day so that Mummy and Daddy could push me all the way along it - and back! Dunsborough is a great base for visiting the Margaret River region - main things to do are visit the vineyards (only Mum and Dad to taste though!), go fishing, ... read more

Im back! I'd have updated sooner but my camera was on the blink and wouldnt turn on, after some intensive investigation the battery charger was discovered as the fault and has been replaced,and on a similar subject ive also had to buy a new phone.Exciting stuff! I have ended up in a little town called Dunsborough in the south west of WA which is slap bang in the middle of the wine region. I was sent down here origionally by the guy who ran a job centre at my hostel in Perth along with 7 others to do some grape vine pruning and after a 3hr hung over bus journey from hell i arrived and my first impressions of the place were alot better than that last dump - there are people here and shops and ... read more

So between visiting wineries, breweries, swimming off beautiful beaches and digging up kangaroo skeletons in sand dunes, our long weekend down south in the Margaret River region was fantastic. We decided to go south while everyone still had holidays. We also managed to pick the same weekend as the massive concert in Busselton, Southbound, which made getting accommodation in the area rather tricky, but we had a great time. We left on Saturday, driving south on our way to Margaret River. We stopped off in Pinjarra for a late morning break and coffee, wandering around the little town and finding lots of outdoor art. We then continued on, until we saw a sign for an art exhibition in Vasse. We found some absolutely beautiful art by local artists, all on display in what lo... read more