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!

The Perth Hills and King's birthday

G'day Mates!

We are still running around with Danny, not anymore at this time of course as he is back already for a few weeks, but we had a good time and I want to share that with you....

On the 24th of April we decided to go to Kalamunda to the information centre as I had read that in that area, which is called Mundy Regional Park, you can do some nice walking.

So after picking up some walking trail maps, we headed of to the Lesmurdie Falls where we had planned to have our lunch first. Unfortunately all the picnic tables were occupied so we just went to see the Falls......

In the distance you can see Perth....

Due to the lack of rain, there was just a little stripe of water........

We found a nice park in Kalamunda itself and had our lunch before our walk; the Rocky Pool walk, which was a walk of 5 k's return with beautiful views.....

We saw and heard some Kookaburra's, we always have to laugh when these birds open their mouth..... 

here the pair is......

we walked along a little creek always beware of snakes....

Hawkeye on the watch for the enemy....

and there is Perth again.....

That was really worth while the walk....

Yeeeeh!!!  27th April; Kings Birthday (King of the Netherlands of course),

so all dressed up we are going to Perth.....

At the train station Danny has to check if his belt bag is securely attached....

with train and bus, the three musketeers are on their way to Kings Park (coincident on Kings Day?)....

Later today we are going to party, first we visit Kings Parks.......

Looks like they are about to start a duel....

Kings Park is one of the world’s largest and most beautiful inner city parks. It is rich in Aboriginal and European history.

We enjoyed the sweeping views of the Swan and Canning Rivers, the city skyline and the Darling Ranges to the east.

We visited the State War Memorial.....

and because it has been Anzac day the 25th, the memorial was packed with flowers....

We entered the botanic garden, had our lunch and walked the federation walk....

On the edge of the garden, on our way back to the bus stop, we saw this beautiful tree and I couldn't resist to make a picture with hubby on a root so you can see how big it is!

Yeeeeehhhh, its party time; we had a few drinks at The Aviary which is a bar on a roof top in the centre of Perth.....

Movie time;

Here they are preparing an "Oranje Bitter", which is a drink, usually drank on King's Day but in Holland you can buy it at the liquor shop, here they made it themselves....

(didn't taste the same though but it was nice)

On our way to the train......

Wonder what Danny has there on his phone.....

That was it again folks, see ya next time!

Cheers!