Eagle Bay Exchange Home (Sleeps 10)
View from Deck
Family Room
Exchange Car
Visitor
My Fly Swatter, they can be bad!!
Bootlegger Brewery
Bunker Bay
Smith Beach, beautiful
Don't you wish you were here!!!
Castle Rock
Busselton Jetty 1.8Kms long
Walkway to fishing spots
Lil is miffed, you can tell by the body language
Hello again! All is well in OZ land.
On the morning of Feb 1, we said our farewelll and thank to Chris & Dawn Curnow our 1st HomeExchange’ss, for a wonderful two weeks at their home on 10 hectares,near Waroona, WA.
Chris had offered to drive us to their daughters home in Mandurah, where we arranged to meet Ian Barron, with whom we were making our 2nd Home Exchange with.
Ian drove down from Perth to deliver too us, the keys to our 2nd Exchange Home and car a Toyota Camry. After a few instructions and information about the home and car, Herb installed our GPS, and after 3 hours of driving on good roads, we arrived in Eagle Bay. Lots of ranches and dairy farms on the way down to this very scenic area.
This vacation home is often rented ($3,000. per Week) out so is well equipped and comfortable. From the big covered deck we have a view of the sea which is about a ½ km away. There is lots of green here, with mature shrubs and trees, we have a kangaroo that eats the grass on the lawn as well as a couple of rabbits and there are lots of birds, including our friends the “28 Parrots”, I have had 4 new bird sightings here..
We are about 8km from it in the south-west corner of Oz, called Cape Naturaliste, were the Indian Ocean & the Southern Ocean meet. All along the coast in Naturaliste Bay there are wonderful beaches with nearly white sand and the sea is just like Caribbean, very colorful and warm.
We have traveled too quite a number of the beautiful beaches as the sheltered Naturaliste Bay has many smaller bays which are well protected from the bigger waves. They are exceptionally beautiful. There are lots of parking places, some with shade! So there is excellent access to all beaches. As the kids are now back in school, they are almost deserted. Just some of us “mature” folks.
We have visited several of the towns along this part of the coast and taken in the local sites. Busselton has a jetty with Marine Viewing Underwater Tank, and an interesting history from when ships came in to load lumber. It's 1.8 km long, and the little train to go to the end isn't running for two more weeks. Too bad. It's a long way there and back.
We then went to the “Tuart Forest Walk” Tuart is a tree with a very dense wood and very strong, it has been logged almost to extinction. Got there and the pathway was closed for repairs, so we walked around the barricade and went anyway, you can see Lil was not happy, see the photo!!
We went to one of the local breweries (The Bootlegger) for a sample (and lunch) and is was great, but expensive $59. restaurant food and drinks are almost double to what they are at home. This is the beginning of the Margaret River wine region and there are over 50 wineries within about an hour's drive. After living at Vaseaux Lake for ten years, more winery tours are not high on my agenda (lil).
The weather is sunny and about 28-31C, with a more than brisk breeze, so very comfortable. It does cool down well at night with a good through draft. We are on a slope with a lovely view of the sea above the trees. Obviously, no complaints.
Last week we drove to Augusta, which is our next exchange, and had lunch with our host's at their summer home, which overlooks the ocean. It was great to meet them after much correspondence to set up our exchanges. It is a lovely place and we look forward to going there. That will be the next blog.
Sunday Feb 13. today, the couple who we have our next exchange with in Augusta, brought down their car so we can drive to Augusta on Tuesday. Very good of them especially as they came from Perth, three hours north. They brought along friends, who we will be doing our last exchange with before we leave for home . They will all be at our place in September for their exchange's.
On the morning of Feb 1, we said our farewelll and thank to Chris & Dawn Curnow our 1st HomeExchange’ss, for a wonderful two weeks at their home on 10 hectares,near Waroona, WA.
Chris had offered to drive us to their daughters home in Mandurah, where we arranged to meet Ian Barron, with whom we were making our 2nd Home Exchange with.
Ian drove down from Perth to deliver too us, the keys to our 2nd Exchange Home and car a Toyota Camry. After a few instructions and information about the home and car, Herb installed our GPS, and after 3 hours of driving on good roads, we arrived in Eagle Bay. Lots of ranches and dairy farms on the way down to this very scenic area.
This vacation home is often rented ($3,000. per Week) out so is well equipped and comfortable. From the big covered deck we have a view of the sea which is about a ½ km away. There is lots of green here, with mature shrubs and trees, we have a kangaroo that eats the grass on the lawn as well as a couple of rabbits and there are lots of birds, including our friends the “28 Parrots”, I have had 4 new bird sightings here..
We are about 8km from it in the south-west corner of Oz, called Cape Naturaliste, were the Indian Ocean & the Southern Ocean meet. All along the coast in Naturaliste Bay there are wonderful beaches with nearly white sand and the sea is just like Caribbean, very colorful and warm.
We have traveled too quite a number of the beautiful beaches as the sheltered Naturaliste Bay has many smaller bays which are well protected from the bigger waves. They are exceptionally beautiful. There are lots of parking places, some with shade! So there is excellent access to all beaches. As the kids are now back in school, they are almost deserted. Just some of us “mature” folks.
We have visited several of the towns along this part of the coast and taken in the local sites. Busselton has a jetty with Marine Viewing Underwater Tank, and an interesting history from when ships came in to load lumber. It's 1.8 km long, and the little train to go to the end isn't running for two more weeks. Too bad. It's a long way there and back.
We then went to the “Tuart Forest Walk” Tuart is a tree with a very dense wood and very strong, it has been logged almost to extinction. Got there and the pathway was closed for repairs, so we walked around the barricade and went anyway, you can see Lil was not happy, see the photo!!
We went to one of the local breweries (The Bootlegger) for a sample (and lunch) and is was great, but expensive $59. restaurant food and drinks are almost double to what they are at home. This is the beginning of the Margaret River wine region and there are over 50 wineries within about an hour's drive. After living at Vaseaux Lake for ten years, more winery tours are not high on my agenda (lil).
The weather is sunny and about 28-31C, with a more than brisk breeze, so very comfortable. It does cool down well at night with a good through draft. We are on a slope with a lovely view of the sea above the trees. Obviously, no complaints.
Last week we drove to Augusta, which is our next exchange, and had lunch with our host's at their summer home, which overlooks the ocean. It was great to meet them after much correspondence to set up our exchanges. It is a lovely place and we look forward to going there. That will be the next blog.
Sunday Feb 13. today, the couple who we have our next exchange with in Augusta, brought down their car so we can drive to Augusta on Tuesday. Very good of them especially as they came from Perth, three hours north. They brought along friends, who we will be doing our last exchange with before we leave for home . They will all be at our place in September for their exchange's.
Beautiful beaches! Great Weather that we wish we were having. It looks like your exchange places are really nice and the people you are dealing with. Have fun! Watch for Sun Burns, and kangaroo crossings. Luv, Bob and Adrienne
ReplyDeleteHi Herb and Lil...Thanks for your newsy updated Blog. We look forward to receiving them and visiting that part of the world through your eyes. I enjoy telling our Aussie son-in-law about your adventures. Enjoy, enjoy and keep on having lots of fun. Love, Bob and Pat.
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