Holiday to Walpole July 2012

Andrea, Caroline , Caroline's exchange student and myself spent a week away - stayed at a chalet in Walpole on the South West Coast of Western Australia.

We had a great time and as mentioned in previous post, drove around 900km+.

Here are some of our memories.

 

 Town of Walpole seen from The Knoll accross the estuary.

 Mother and baby - who ate carrots from our hands

 Mother and baby

 Andrea and Roni -

 One of two Bandicoots we had also living by our challet. I have only seen these once before.

This one ate some apple.

I think this one thought the camera was something good to eat.

Ronnie Andrea and Caroline...

On the Treetop walk at The Vally of the giants.  Giant Tingle tree forrest.

 Inside one of the giant Tingle trees

 Roni and Andrea at the 'Dinasor Park' - with birds

 Me with a little bird who couldnt fly - and he tried to eat my ear :)

Caroline at Conspicuous Bay.  Thats a fresh water creek flowing into the ocean.  

I fell ove twice here.  Thank goodness no-one saw me. Once getting OVER the log to get over the creek to the other side ... and then gtting BACK on the log to cross back over the creek - Long story -This is where I think I hurt my back.

 Peaceful Bay

 Roni, Andrea and Caroline getting their feet wet.

Looking up at the Diamond Tree Lookout

 Me at the top of the Diamond Tree Lookout - can you tell I was exhausted?

 Me climbing down again - couldnt wak properly when I got down from the last rung and suffered for 3 days after.  Last time I do that!

 Roni in the centre on a giant Karri Tree near the Diamont tree Lookout.

 Two of three Kookaburra's who ate meat from us - even tried to eat it from my hand... gave me a fright!

 We ran out of mince at this time, and the third one waited patiently to see if there was more!

 Walpole Estuary from The Knoll Walpole

From the Knoll again.

 A Blue Wren- Male

 An Emu - there wer a mob of them here, but Andrea didnt think they would show upand only took this photo.

 A male Robin Red Breast

 A small mob of Kangaroos between Bailingup and Nannup by the Blackwood River

at Lewana Cottages

The Dam  - at Lewana Cottages, Bailingup on the Nannup Road

A lot of photos, but I hope you enjoy them.

Need to tidy up my studio again.

We have our very special guest that we are all so happy about,  arriving on Monday for a few weeks.

Her name is Caitlin and she is Andrea's exchange student all the way from Victoria B

Our wonderful holiday in Bali

Yes - this is where we have all been for a week!!

We arrived home on Saturday

We really did enjoy ourselves  as you can see by the photos!

 

A night of Balinese Traditional dancing at the hotel

Andrea with the Dancers

All of us by the pool at the tradition Dancing evening.

 Andrea and I at one of the temples, they say Bali is the home of a thousand Temples.

 Mal and I at the Peninsula Hotel.  We were conned here the first day!  You could only stay here if you were a member...for AU$15,000.00....  we didn't join!!

This was a real learning curve.

 Mal and Andrea at the large volcano in the middle of the island... (I am not too good on names.)...

the lake in the middle of the volcano in in the background.

 Mal on the beach at Legion.

 Andrea in the foyer at the Jayakarta beach resort where we stayed

Covered in huge butterflies at the Butterfly Park

The art work was amazing!

The markets in Ubud

Rice fields

Another rice field

At the Butterfly Park.  It was so beautiful.

I have some more, but I cant find the ones I want - so I will put them up soon.

I did get 22 meters of batik fabric ...

I felt I was in fabric heaven!!!

I have plans for next year :)

...thankfully though we were overweight with our luggage :) the plane home was only partly full...so we got all our things through. 

It was quite an adventure.

Now I need to settle down and get some things done.

I still have some sorting out in the house to do.