Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
If you ask Hannah on what she thinks is the biggest highlight of this vacation – even though there are still two more days left to go in this 11 day stay in Western Australia – she’ll say without hesitation,
The second stop we made was in Dawesville, a suburb of Mandurah and located between the Harvey Estuary and the Indian Ocean, according to Google’s write-up of it. We drove along Estuary road until we came to a spot that
Day 9, and we’re on our last leg of our 11 day vacation. We checked0out from our stay in MR – the Margaret River Hideaway – and slowly made our way back up north back to Perth. Unlike Day 2
H and P loved the first animal feeding on Day 7 so much we went for it again on Day 9. More fun pictures!
There are perhaps about half a dozen well-known ‘show caves’ in the Margaret River region, each having its own special look, feel and accessibility into the cave itself. We were uncertain which one would suit H and P best, and
There’s a great deal of natural beauty in Western Australia. Like Pemberton, we hunted around for an off-road tour of the natural sights in Margaret River. There seemed to be two tour operators specialising in this tour type and working
The Margaret River town center certainly looks a lot more developed today in 2017 than I remember it from 2003, with lots more shops and eateries, and also more human and vehicular traffic than before. We had plenty of opportunities
Many tourists don’t really spend more than a day in Pemberton, if at all even – a sentiment also shared by Collin, our guide during our half-day tour with Pemberton Discovery Tours. Most of the time, visitors are just going
Picture-heavy post, as after the Cheeky Monkey Brewery & Cidery lunch stopover, we checked out four other places in succession. The third stop for the day was 8 minutes away along Harmans Mill Road – the Margaret River Chocolate Company,
The animal feeding ran from 8:30AM to just past 10:00AM, which left us with the rest of the day to explore the immediate vicinity of Margaret River. We would be going on a private day tour the next day that
The most important reason why we chose Western Australia as our holiday destination for June 2017 was the availability of farmstays, and the animal feeding experience became one of the most significant activities that Hannah especially looked forward to. The
The first whale-watching experience I with our Ang Mo bud had was in Gloucester in 2010 – site also of the famous disaster fictionalized in the year 2000 George Clooney The Perfect Storm – and I had a second trip
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