Kalbarri - Perth

(Photo: The Pinnacles)

Kathy - It is amazing how quickly our sojourn in Kalbarri ended. We had a great time with the Dickins. We toured gorges, visited beaches and cafes, sought out the wildflowers and visited a parrot "zoo" - Campbell was very taken with the Macaws until their beaks got too close!

We left Kalbarri on the warmest day we'd had there and spent the day in the car travelling to Perth via The Pinnacles which were much more interesting than we anticipated. Rhys and the kids played 40-40 and in the process Campbell managed to go missing for 15 minutes (he thought he'd hide a really, really long way away) and then lost his sand coloured crocs which apparently he left them behind a small pinnacle. Do you know how many small pinnacles there are?!

We're now in Perth. When we first drove in we couldn't get over all the traffic, houses etc. By the next morning Rhys and Campbell had hit the shops and checking out JB HiFi, Anaconda etc. Its good to see they've adapted back to urban life so quickly!





(Photo: Kings Park)

Today we went to Kings Park which was great - lots more wildflowers and some very interesting garden designs and sculptures which we plan to shamelessly plagerize in our garden (Julie Bishop move over!). We happened to bump into a family from Woolongong at the Park who we seem to be stalking and had coffee while the kids played. Hi guys. Maybe we'll see you in Kalgoolie. We then went on to Freemantle for a nice urban foodie lunch - v. nice.


Tomorrow it is meant to rain in Perth - the only capital city in Australia expecting rain! We're not sure what we'll do as we're so unused to rain. Then we're going to stay with our friends, William and Merran, for a couple of days before heading off to Kalgoolie and then home. Hopefully we have a chance to send another blog before we get home but otherwise we'll catch up some time after 3 October.

(Photo: Lunch in Freemantle)