The South West

After saying farewell to Tanya we headed south toward Margaret River (another wine region) where we had booked ourselves on a wine tour. We stopped off at Freemantle on the way there. Our wine tour was loads of fun! We visited 4 wineries and had a gourmet lunch at one which included Kangaroo (yummy but seems wrong!) and Witchety Grub paste which was actually quite nice and it was easy to eat as it looked like hummus! We also went to a chocolate factory, a cheese factory and a brewery. Our guide brian was very funny and informative and all in all we had a great day out and met loads of interesting people.

After Margaret River we went to look at a cave, then stopped off at Hamlin Bay where we saw some massive stingrays right on the shore. After that it was Pemberton where we visited some of the national parks, it's all forests with really tall trees. We climbed one of them, the Gloucester tree which is 60m tall, was a bit scary (there were steel pegs inserted into the trunk to make a kind of ladder) but well worth it. We also went on a little tree tops walk in the Valley of the Giants. Next we visited an Alpaca (sort of like a Llama) farm where we saw Koalas, Kangaroos, Emus, a Dingo, a Camel and a South American Bison as well as the usaul farm type animals. That was pretty cool, and I managed to get up close to one of the Koala's and stroke him, he was still half asleep, they sleep for 20 hours a day, that's nearly as much as Rich (tee hee!!) So, been a bit hectic over last few days, good job we had that long rest in Perth!!

Next stop was Albany where we've just been chilling on the beach this morning and that's where we are now. We're heading up North next, to the Ningaloo reef so got quite a lot of driving in front of us before we get there!