On The Road Again.
Departed All Seasons Hotel in Northbridge at 7am, then negotiated our way onto the Sterling Highway in the general direction of Fremantle. We stopped at Kwinana for breakfast, then continued on by-passing Fremantle to Mandura. Here Jim & Chris looked up an old acquatance from Mona Vale, Ted & Barbara. Gail and I attempted to contact Ed & Mary Crane but were unsuccessful so we joined the others for morning tea. Departed Mandura around 11am bound for Bunbury where we stopped for lunch and shopped for food & drinks. Continued on to Bussleton where we visited the Busselton jetty - took photos etc then pressed on to Cowaramup to our pre booked accomodation at Taunton Farm - a combined caravan park, chalet place. Our one bedroom cabin was quite comfortable with a queen bed in the bedroom and bunks plus a single in the spacious living area. We called in to a winery for tasting then visited a cheese factory where we sampled many of their products before purchasing some cheese, wine !
and port for later consumption.
Cooked a BBQ in the camp kitchen area then sat on our verandah and relaxed. We covered 304 km today.
Friday morning and on the road by 8am
bound for Albany via Pemberton where we visited the Gloucester Tree after mistakingly driving about 30km out of town to another fire lookout tree. Lunch in Pemberton then on to Albany where we are booked into the Albany Holiday Park, about 5km out of town. Jim & I drove into town, found a fish and chip shop and took them back to the cabin for dinner.
Saturday morning we were on the road by 8am, called into the town Sat morning market then drove out to the wind farm about 6km out of town. The huge wind generators make a very impressive sight, 12 in all spread out over a 3km stretch. Each blade is 34 metres long. As it was quite early we were the only visitors there. Departed Albany about 9:30am on the long drive to Esperance. Stopped at Ravensthorpe for lunch, then due to the recent cyclonic storms around Esperance we had to detour from highway 1 on a gravel road for approx. 126km in order to get through to Esperance. Arrived at the Pink Lake Holiday Park around 4:30pm and then popped over to an IGA shop for a few items. Today has been the first hot day we have had.
and port for later consumption.
Cooked a BBQ in the camp kitchen area then sat on our verandah and relaxed. We covered 304 km today.
Friday morning and on the road by 8am
bound for Albany via Pemberton where we visited the Gloucester Tree after mistakingly driving about 30km out of town to another fire lookout tree. Lunch in Pemberton then on to Albany where we are booked into the Albany Holiday Park, about 5km out of town. Jim & I drove into town, found a fish and chip shop and took them back to the cabin for dinner.
Saturday morning we were on the road by 8am, called into the town Sat morning market then drove out to the wind farm about 6km out of town. The huge wind generators make a very impressive sight, 12 in all spread out over a 3km stretch. Each blade is 34 metres long. As it was quite early we were the only visitors there. Departed Albany about 9:30am on the long drive to Esperance. Stopped at Ravensthorpe for lunch, then due to the recent cyclonic storms around Esperance we had to detour from highway 1 on a gravel road for approx. 126km in order to get through to Esperance. Arrived at the Pink Lake Holiday Park around 4:30pm and then popped over to an IGA shop for a few items. Today has been the first hot day we have had.
Kevin & Gail.
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