Highlights of our days with Danny! Too much goodbye's

G'days mates,

Here are our last days together and some pictures of things we did in between, of course the beach is always one it the relaxing and lovely things to do....

Mandurah is also a great place to visit....

And then Little Creatures in Fremantle, one of our favourites only such a shame the beer is soo bloody expensive in Australia otherwise we would have gone there more.....

On our way to......

More Beer; Bootleg Brewery in the Margaret River Wine region; also a great spot to visit especially when they have life music, check out their website when you want to go;

http://bootlegbrewery.com.au/

Always expect Wildlife .....

And then...... it looks like our whole life exists of saying goodbye's.....

Another goodbye....

We have left our house sit in Bertram in which we have been for 8 months so you can imagine, it's hard. Not only for leaving the house but also because we know we are going towards Victoria soon and so we will have to say goodbye to our "adopted" family.

When the owner is coming home, yeh, we have to go out!

We have had a tremendous time with them which we will never forget. We now are a few weeks in Dunsborough but the day of leaving will come, no doubt. It will be hard, very hard but..... we will just do one more sit for them in October for a week, after that our travels will continue and we will have more love and great people in our memory and will cherish that.

Dunsborough, Meelup Beach, Cape Naturaliste,

G'day Mates,

I hear you thinking; "we've seen this title before" and yes you are right but, this is a totally different story as this is with Danny, the previous one was with Sheila, and now we did different things.

For instance, Meelup Beach, now the weather was very windy so then you get a total different ocean look;

Movie time;

At Cape Naturaliste we walked a short bit of the Cape to Cape trail, our walk is 7 k's return and went from the Lighthouse to Sugar Loaf Rock.

 The Cape to Cape walk itself is 140 kilometre and traverses along the ridge and beaches of the Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park following the coast from Cape Naturaliste, Dunsborough to Cape Leeuwin, Augusta.   

The walk takes in amazing views of sea and landscapes including wildflowers in spring and the stunning Indian Ocean.

What are they looking for?

Something is hiding under a rock....better leave it Danny as Australia isn't the country to grab under rocks.....

Was he bitten....?

Of course we had our lunch with us....

Ever heard of a Moaning Frog?

This one is singing, the one what was hiding in the ground in the outside shower of our holiday house, was moaning whole night and keeping Danny awake because his bedroom was next to it. Crikey, what a noise they make! 

The moaning frog is native to the coast of south-western Western Australia. It inhabits sandy swamps, where it burrows for protection from predators.

 The males call from under the ground....

 Look at the little bastard, they are soo small you wouldn't believe the noise they produce!

Being in the south, Busselton and especially the Jetty, is always on the "to do" list....

The, in the mean time our favourite; "Dunsborough to Meelup Beach track....

and our favourite lunch spot.....

Suddenly we saw something beautiful in the sky....

where the sun was shining through the clouds a whole spectacle of colours appeared.... 

Isn't it a nice picture to end with.....

see you soon...

Cheers

WA Shipwreck Museum, Fremantle

G'day Mates,

Today I only have a short story but to my opinion a very interesting one. Not that I tell you so much but I just want to get people who live in the neighbourhood, but also tourists who visit Fremantle, to persuade to go to this beautiful museum. And guess what! It's for free, but of course they would be very pleased if you donate and that's worth doing because it's a great museum.

OK, enough talking, I provide you with a few pictures and the rest you really have to see yourselves..

The WA Shipwrecks Museum is recognised as the foremost maritime archaeology museum in the southern hemisphere and is housed in 1850s-era Commissariat building and has since been restored to its historic glory.

Steeped in history, the galleries house hundreds of relics from ships wrecked along WA's treacherous coastline, including the original timbers from the Batavia (wrecked in 1629), the de Vlamingh plate, and also countless artefacts from the Dutch shipwrecks Zuytdorp, Zeewijk and Vergulde Draeck.

Can you imagine, we are not great museum people, except for Danny as he loves museums and we can give him all the credit as he dragged us to here and we don't regret, anyhow, I have been reading a lot of this stuff and sometimes had goosebumps from the cruelty they did in those days....

The "De Vlamingh plate"....

(There is a whole story about this plate and one of the volunteers of the museum explains it all) 

Here you can see how the Aboriginals tell what they saw.....

On a balcony you can walk around the shipwreck on which you have a great view....

and the plaque explains what you see......

The Dutch VOC .... 

Once again I ask you to go and see this museum, I promise, you won't be disappointed....

AND....... don't forget to donate!

Cheers!