Tour De South West Australia
Once Grace and I figured out that it was going to be too much work to hire a car and drive across the Nullarbor. We decided 10 days of driving around south western Australia would be a great adventure.
We hired a car and set off on the wrong side of the road, first stop Wave Rock. A 15 meter high granite cliff that is shaped like a wave. It was interesting all of the rock formations around there were neat Grace and I felt we were back in Moab only we did not have our bikes with us. Oh well another day missing our bikes, we will have to make due with a couple of pairs of running shoes instead.
While we were here we checked out everything else Wave Rock and Hyden (the closest town) had to offer. This included Mulka’s Cave; a cave with aboriginal hand prints on the rock. We also did the tourist thing in Hyden and took some pictures of their metal art structures.
Esperance and Lucky Bay – ‘where kangaroos suntan on the beach’
Phil found Lucky Bay in a tourist mag and it said it had the whitest and best beaches in Australia so we had to go there. What’s another 50km east to the National Park after driving 500km. Lucky Bay was amazing and it was the first time we saw kangaroos in the campsite and how slow they can move.
About 7am the next day we headed to the beach; after a 30 min walk along the beach we find a nice quite bay. The waves were awesome and the water was nice we jumped waves for about 2 hours.
That afternoon it started to rain and it rained a lot. We met a lot of nice people from all over Australia here and even had dinner with some of them.
Walpole – Tree Top Walk
The tree top walk is a metal structure that takes you up around 60M high in the trees pretty cool walk to do once. Then on to the ancient forest which is a walk through tingle forest which had all been burnt so the base of the trees were all burnt out which created a space that we could stand under.
Margaret River – Wine and Cheese Country
After the last few days hanging out in the rain we decided to stay at Edge of the Forest motel in Margaret River. The guy here was super friendly and told us all the best places to go. We stayed in the motel for 2 nights and then camped for one night as we had such a great time here.
We checked out some wineries, Mammoth Cave and of course the beaches. We also found a great trail to run called Pine top trail, which reminded us of home with all the pine trees.
Mammoth cave is an impressive, gothic-like cave that could easily be described as the perfect home for a caveman. It was 500m long and 30m deep. Walking through the cave was quite amazing.
Favourite wine in Margaret River was Madfish and Redgate (reds). Favourite cheese was sweet chilli cheddar.
Busselton – Snorkelling
The little town of Busselton was super nice and had some great beaches so we rented some snorkel gear and went out to Meelup beach. This was great Phil saw a salmon and we saw lots of other fish and sea life here.
On to Bunbury not far away we found a mountain bike trail system so we went for a 12km trail run on the mountain bike trails. The trails were awesome although with all the tight corners and round pebbles I’m sure we would have crashed on our bikes here.
Back to Perth after 10 days and 2500kms it was quite the tour. We never did find the Interstate back to Perth but we did swim in a pool called the mighty Indian Ocean.
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