Lancelin to Bunbury

Its been a bit of a rainy time on this side of the globe, we’ve had bouts of intermittent rain for the last few weeks now but luckily with some nice weather in between. We left Jurien and headed to Lancelin to take our last look at the beautiful turquoise sea before going on to Perth City.

Lancelin Beach and jetty

Having a stop at Lancelin Pub

Lancelin

 We had 2 nights at a place called Karrinyup that is a northern suburb of Perth. We really scored with the caravan park there, being in the city pretty well, we thought it would be a bit average. However we had a fantastic site which, as you will see from the photos was right on the lake. Pippa got to feed all the wild birds including a HUGE pair of black swans, which frightened the living daylights out of her (at first). 

can you see us through the trees? nice spot

Pip escapes the swan

View from our site Karrinyup

We took the bus and train into the city and checked out a few of the sights. Pip was very impressed with the Perth Mint. She saw them pouring gold bullion which she thought was pretty cool and weighed herself on the $ scales converting her weight to value in gold. Apparently she is worth 1.143 million.

the Perth Mint

We stayed over with Haydn and Teresa for the remaining 4 days we were in Perth. They took us to the races, good shopping, and fed and wined us. We had a couple of days by ourselves to navigate the wine, chocolate and microbrewery trail, and the art galleries, museums and fore shores such as Fremantle. Perth is a really pretty and we’d imagine quite a nice city to live in.  

testing the chocolate at Swan Valley confectionary

Perth Museum

Pip n Heath at  Ascot Races

We left Perth yesterday for Bunbury. Now this is actually a beautiful spot! I could live here. Bunbury has great beaches, all the infrastructure of a large town, and great coffee and fine dinning precinct. Sadly we didn’t pre book a caravan park and due to the long weekend for CHOGM (the reason we left Perth) EVERYONE is booked out. We managed to get 2 nights at a park on the highway, which is very noisy. So a dinner out at Bianco gourmet Pizzas, a quick look around the town a few groceries and we are off tomorrow morning to Busselton, a whole 30 min down the road. I think we were actually lucky to get a site there too with everyone flooding away from CHOGM and the street closure chaos.