11• Perth – Cape Legrand NP

We’ve explored the south west corner and south of Western Australia with a little incursion to Wave Rock and the gold mining fields around Kalgoorlie. Again we encountered beautiful coastlines, stunning rock formations, sand dunes, giant trees, farmland with a wide variety of crops and the amazing outback.

We fell compelled to have a taste at some of the local products such as wine from the Margaret River region, fruits and berries, olive oil, cheese and chocolate (yes, there were some cows as well), even truffles. We missed out though on crayfish and trouts despite having seen them very closely during an unexpected dive while canoeing!

To keep a good balance with so much indulgence, we kept our feet going. Some of the walks were quite challenging, either by their steepness for Armande (Bluff Knoll) or their height for Jean-Philippe (tree top and sky walk).

Although done at the last minute, our itinerary had to be altered a few times due to either road or weather conditions, closed areas (controlled fires, to avoid the spread of diseases, road work,…) and accommodating some necessary minor repairs to the car and camper-trailer.

By the way, the zip of the camper-trailer cover is now working beautifully. Yeeha!

To spice it up a bit, we went through an early morning small earthquake in Albany (5.4 on the Richter scale) which shook our bed-on-wheels a fair bit.

Some annoying issues have been the flies, the flies and the flies, as well as a frequently cold, windy and wet weather keeping us unfortunately out of the water. The total fire ban imposed at this time of the year has also dumped a bit our spirits. We are missing our dampers (even burned) and lovely evening campfires !

This has been a fairly densely populated region, what’s coming next may be quite different….