Margaret River area



After a rather drunken evening with the Penrhos ladies, Gav and I headed south for the gorgeous wine area of Margaret River. Gav was a bit disappointed to find out that Margaret River, contrary to what the surf competition might suggest, is actually not right on the beach; it is a few km's inland. We stayed at a gorgeous spot, overlooking natural bushland, with kangaroos in our front yard. We ate lots, drank lots and had beautiful weather. We spent a day on a winery tour bus, a much better option than trying to decide who was to drive and not drink, visited both Cape Naturaliste and Cape Leeuwin lighthouses, and visited one of the many caves in the area.

The lighthouse at Cape Naturaliste barely survived a very bad bushfire just 2 months before our visit, so we couldn't walk the property around it, we could only go straight to the lighthouse and up to the top. It's quite a small lighthouse actually. As opposed to Cape Leeuwin lighthouse which is closer to 100 feet tall. It sits at the point where the Indian & Southern oceans meet and was VERY windy!

We drove through some lovely karri forest on our way back north and stopped in at Ngilgi Cave. The area between the lighthouses is full of +300 caves and several of them have been set up for tourists. The one we visited was the first opened to tourists in just 1900, apparently it was very popular with honeymooners!

The highlight of our winery tour, well Gav's anyway, was the lunch that was served, complete with a witchity grub, which he was not quick enough to volunteer to eat, the Canadian woman next to him got her hand up first. I think I might have dry heaved as she put it in her mouth to eat it, uncooked...yuck! Just google witchity grub and Wikipeida should tell you all you need to know about them.

We had a late lunch at Amberley Winery, so late that they were sold out of just about everything.....but they still had sticky date pudding! It was heavenly. That was our only meal we ate out as we had a full kitchen and BBQ at the studio we stayed in.

We are now up in Geradlton, on the farm with Aunty Yvonne til Saturday, when we head back to Perth. She does have satellite internet, but it didn't seem to be working, so we are in town and Gav is sorting out a new passport as I sit in an internet cafe. He didn't lose his current one, just renewing :)

Love to you all, looking forward to seeing some of you very soon!

Comments

  1. Anecdotal AnnaApril 9, 2009 at 1:06 AM

    Glad you had a nice time. You made no mention of The Chocolate Factory? Did you manage to get out of that?

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