Now this is more like it. Love farm life. Beautifully relaxing. Animal feeding at 5pm was a real hit. Cows, goats, a very sad donkey, two giant pigs and sometimes a sheep. All very polite except for Bullet, a 100kg black pig who likes fingers.
Taunton Farm is most conveniently located between The MR Dairy Co. and 3 Oceans winery.
Off to collect cheese with our new best purchase.
Amaze n Margaret River was the second stop of the day after Koffee at Yahava and a few choccy samples next door at Temper Temper. Hudson is super keen to lead the family through the huge hedge maze which was planted over 20 years ago. Thats some forsight. Round and round, go left, dead end, we finally make it to the middle viewing platform. This is no help. The man at the beginning said 15 minutes if you were travelling well. Lets just say we are not travelling well. We hear another groups elation at finding the exit. Makes the group a little disheartened. Huds wants to push on alone. Mum stresses out. It's a bit hot. Finally we are out.
Didn't really stand a chance.
Quick trip through Margs, down to watch the kitesurfers at main beach and river mouth.
Dinner with our genetically blessed neighbours. Danish man meets sweedish girl whilst ski instructing in France. Have two cute kids Constance and Edward and take a holiday is the Souwest to escape the fog in Singapore. By the way, those Maui/Kea vans that you see everywhere are $320 a day! A day!!!! Must be money is sales.
Moving day. Off to Augusta.
Flinders Bay. So pretty. In love with Augusta already although I hate caravan parks that charge a bomb for kids but have no facilities for them. I don't mind $11 a night per kid but not even a playground.
Straight to the main tourist attraction Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse and where two seas meet. We try to enjoy the self guided walking tour but one child who needs to push around too fast and the other who is hogging the speaker means I may have missed a few stations. Gorgeous view.
Off to the second main attraction Jewel Cave. Unfortunately there had been a fire in the new cafe/discovery centre a few weeks earlier so we wait under a marquee getting bitten by march flies. Jewel Cave is worth a visit. The tour is amazing, fully guided and very informative. The walkways head down 40 metres into the cave, through low points and spectacular natural wonders. Hudson absolutely loved it. Juddy did not love it when they turned all the lights out. Sorry other group members. What goes down must come up and sadly Judd only wanted Daddy to carry him. Up 400 stairs.
More fishing, swimming and riding.
One last fish on moving day sees us drain the auxillary battery and no fish. The 2 1/2 hours spent chasing the kids around was not well spent and I was not happy.
Caravan lesson 132 learnt and onwards to Pemberton.
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