November 18th Monday

Hi All,
We're now at Walpole. Almost seems strange to be on the way again, almost 3 weeks in Fremantle with the caravan parked up Matt/Nicky's drive. Very quickly feel back into work mode although its hard moving your day back as its light about 4.30 am no daylight savings and temps of 30+. Fremantle is a loverly city,we enjoyed a few meals out with Matt/Nicky and the weekends avoiding the heat. The beaches are really packed after work and the weekend
Thanks again to M&N for there hospitality and the use of his tools

We left Freo (3 weeks and I'm a local) and drove to Nannup. We met Frank and Jill earlier in to trip at a camp out of Kununara and again at 80 mile beach, we took up there offer to stay a few nights. Nannup is a loverly backwater town of 500 people and we camped at there farm 5kms out of town.

Nannup was a central spot and we did day trips to Margaret River,Augusta, Bridgetown( great cidery and brewery there) and Cape Leeuwin ( the most southwest point), Bought some wine at MR as you would and enjoyed one with Frank and Jill.

After 3 nights we needed to keep moving the 3 weeks in Freo had put us behind a little to be in Adelaide for the house sit at Xmas. So we have come direct to Walpole seeing sites on the way. The weathers alittle cool 18/8 and will stay that way for a few days. The camp has a great setting on an inlet lots of fishing/swimming/yatching etc with pelicans and rotunda on the jetty. Will be magic in the summer

Today we went to "The Valley of the Giants" Huge Tingle and Karri trees 400 yrs or more that have suffered from fires,insects etc to be hollowed out see photos. The area is so well done with an aerial walkway, about 360 m long so you walk mongst the trees 40m off the ground, as well as walking through the trees on the ground.

Tomorrow we start towards Esperance will take several days, as usual, but wedding anniversary on Saturday so need to find somewhere nice for a meal

 sunday at South Beach Freo

 Busselton Underwater Observatory at the end of the Pier

 The Busselton Pier 1.8kms long

 Lighthouse at Cape Leeuwin

 Walpole inlet motorcamp

 Giant Tingle tree

Same again




hope you enjoy the pics as much as we did taking them

Regards to you all Marian and Clive

9th November 2013
Its been a while - we arrived in Perth two weeks ago.  Clive was offered some building work through Matt whom we have been staying with, so we brought our stage of travel from Geraldton to Perth forward - flexibility is the name of the game !
I have taken the opportunity to have a week with Marsha and family - just lovely to reconnect with them all.  Finn starts school in January and is becoming a grown up young man.  Neko is terribly cute and has an amazing vocabulary for a not even 2 year old ( 21st Dec).
They have both transitioned into having me around with absolute ease so its lovely to know that they havent forgotten me/ us over the last 6 months.  Neko just called out to me ( I'm babysitting) " Nanny I need you" !!  She also has me totally won over as whenever she wants something she says " Please Nanny" in the cutest way !!!!  Works in her favor every time.
So, Clive's work will finish middle of next week then we will move ourselves along the south west coast of WA, heading to Adelaide by 18th December, where we will do a housesit for a week as well as spend some time with Brendan.
When we leave Adelaide we plan to head to Melbourne following the Murray River.  Conscious that it will be through the school holiday period then so think it may be slightly less crowed inland rather than coastal. It will also give us another part of Victoria that we haven't seen already.
 We are now seeing a real change in the scenery where there is actually green grass and pastoral land, in stark contrast to red dirt and very limited bush/ general growth.  no pics this time - don't have the camera stick with me.
Love to you all
Marian