Western Australia – Day 10 – Elizabeth Quay and Matilda Bay Reserve

Next stop was a short 10 minute drive to Elizabeth Quay, though parking was painfully expensive (AUD12.60 for 3 hrs – ouch!). The area is a mixed-use development project, and you could easily spend hours exploring not just the Spanda

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Western Australia – Day 10 – King’s Park

Day 10, and one more day left to our vacation to WA. We planned to make the trip to Whiteman, north of Perth, to visit the Caversham Wildlife Park in the earlier versions of our itinerary, but after that was

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Western Australia – Margaret River Hideaway

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,

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Western Australia – Day 9 – Dawesville Foreshore Reserve

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

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Western Australia – Day 8 – Exploring Natural Sights with Margaret River Exposed

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

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Western Australia – Pemberton

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

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Western Australia – Forest Lodge Resort

Of the four properties we stayed at over the 11 day trip, two were Airbnb which we’ll blog about separately, while the Pemberton and Margaret River stays of four and five days respectively deserve their own extended reviews, since they

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Western Australia – Day 7 – Margaret River Exploration: MR Chocolate Company, MR Nuts & Cereals, Rotary Park, and Temper Temper Fine Chocolates

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,

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Western Australia – Day 7 – Margaret River Exploration: Millers Ice Cream Farm and Cheeky Monkey Brewery & Cidery

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

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