Busselton

Busselton is some- what similar in lay and size out as Bunbury with its main street near the fore shore and its industrial and larger shopping requirements on a strip behind. Busselton is a pretty town with quite a bit of history in some of its old buildings, which are currently being beautifully restored. Busselton like Bunbury sits in the Geographe Bay but it doesn’t have the surf beaches as it’s a bit more protected by Cape Naturaliste. The Busselton jetty being one of the longest in the southern hemisphere has also just finished refurbishment and it’s now a popular tourist attraction. We walked out to the end… 1.7 klm each way. Pip wasn’t that impressed with walking she wanted to catch the train but we thought the exercise would do us all good……..”I wish we caught the train too!”

We had a drive to Dunsborough, Cape Naturaliste and Yallingup (beautiful surf beach) checking out the brewery and olive farm. Also took a ride out to a cheese factory for a taste of the vintage cheddars and bought about 1.8kilos of the stuff. We now have s@*t loads of cheese and olives.

Yallingup

We are enjoying the weather while it lasts, as there is a forecast for rain at the end of the week. The weather seems a bit up and down the last few weeks going from quite cold at night, needing sleeping bags and doonas, to 4 nights later and we are under only a sheet and every window open trying to catch a breeze.

We are staying here now until Sunday as there is an agricultural shows here over Friday and Saturday. Mike though Pip would enjoy the show and the rides. The carnival crowd is camped up all around us in this park, literally, we have dodgems, super ball, hotdog stands and fairy floss vans, in fact I wake up each morning thinking “I’m at the show”. They’re all waiting until they can get into the show grounds to set up. Pip has had offers of free rides and games from at least half a dozen of the “carnies”. Mike had an offer of a job for a few days (manual labour setting up the big rides) he said uhh let me think for a half a sec..NO! Thanks.

The caravan park we are in here is more like a national park camp ground, its really lovely green grassy sites with Peppermint trees over hanging through out the grounds. We have spent quite a bit of time here just hanging out reading and relaxing then taking the short walk to the town to spend money. They have a great art store so Pips craft supplies have built up enormously.

How old is this Pip asks?

referb of the old buildings

Kookaburra park

We still love the gypsy life but I must admit I have had some caravan envy lately, as we are really short of storage space in this van. We have actually looked at vans for sale just in case we were to find something that would suit us (all great for couples not families) with more storage BUT… if we find something that has great storage and is small enough for our little jeep to tow we have to compromise living space which to us is more important……so we continue on in our van that at times looks like a backpackers hostel.

These photos are taking a seriously long time to download and although I have all the time in the world it is testing my patience so I'm sorry but I might have to add more photos from a different destination.