Malcolm, Christine and the family were down for the weekend recently and Malcolm was determined to get the outboard motor on his tinny working. It has only been used a few times in the past eight years. After much resistance and reluctance, it relented and spluttered into life, at first without conviction and then, admitting …
On occasions Rob comes up with the most delightful ideas for an excursion and I became curious when he disappeared into the kitchen yesterday and started making noises not linked to washing up dishes or pouring drinks. Upon exploration I discovered he was packing a snack of Fruit cake and chocolate biscuits and filling a …
26:24.42S 114:27.50E That evening we cooked in the outdoor kitchen near the tent instead of the big camp kitchen and I’m glad we did because we met numerous really interesting people from WA; one lady travelled the world’s universities in her role as an adviser to students on dissertation presentation and a chap had helped …
20:39.40S 116:59.53E Yesterday, here in Te Opu, Rob was busy. He telephoned Travis who lives in The Ritz, the other little homestead not far from the main house and Shipton. Travis has sold all his young bitch’s puppies, one to Perth and the rest within Kojonup. Within minutes of the phone call Rob and Travis …
Pearl buttons to be precise and the town was born in 1883 and rapidly developed into an area filled with Chinese, Japanese and Europeans along with local aborigines ‘blackbirded’ into forced labour aboard the pearl luggers like the perfect model you see in the picture. The industry of pearling was a dangerous one and thousands …
It may seem incongruous but while deadly Covid 19 still grips the world, and the regime in China is sabre rattling over Hong Kong, and Taiwan, and threatening Australia and the US; while Melbourne in Victoria goes at least in part back into Lockdown, we, along with many families whose children are now on school …
After a fortnight languishing around the farm we decided it was time for a day out to Bunbury to research the place as a possible stopover for Zoonie when we eventually sail westwards and then north up the west coast of Australia. By the time we get there we will have passed Cape Leeuwin and …
I am pleased to advertise the beer that accompanied us to our retreat near Kojonup because it is a fine, strong, dark and tasty beer that reminds us of the historic English beer making tradition, and anything at the moment that reminds us of home is very welcome. Once we had settled in to our …
The locals call it Seppings Lake and we first came late one afternoon to walk the loop and see what we could find. Djarat was one of the old spirits known to the local Noongar people. He strode through this soggy part of South West Australia to create the south coast leaving his footprint behind. …
Day pod Tuesday 31st March I tried to contact the camping trip Adventure Company direct yesterday only to have emails pinged back as their addresses were closed; a victim of the shut -down. Just as well we booked the trip through Perth YHA and the manager there, Mel is systematically working through the mountain of …