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Up early as picked up by Tony for a wine tasting tour visiting 4 Vineyards Xanadu, Redgate, Jarvis Estate and Edward’s finishing of with a drink and snack at a local brewery pub. Half way we stopped for lunch at Olio Bello. Certainly a great tour with several tastings at each sight. Nice lunch as well and Tony was a good Organiser. Certainly Margaret River is a great place for wine as there are numerous vineyards around this town. Western Australia is a great place for wine 🍷

Had another chill day looking through leaflets on things to do but did go to Augusta to check out and climb the Leeuwin lighthouse

This was a rest day and had a walk to Margaret River town and had some lunch. Then went onto Busselton again to walk on the mile Jetty as the cruise had left.

After breakfast went to do a tour of the Jetty and Aquarium, however it was all booked up due to a massive cruise ship arriving! Had a walk round Busselton. Do decided to go to Ngilgi caves near Dunsborough.

After the caves drove to Margaret River to RiverGlen chalets. Stopped off at cape lavendar cafe where everything was purple and contained lavenders Jacs favourite colour and plant. Had tea and cake

Happy to be surrounded by her favourite things for tea

After checking in at Redgate Chalet at RiverGlen resort went out to woolies in Margaret River to get provisions for our stay. Cooked chicken skewers on BBQ and chips and salad. We also drank some local Rose wine from Flame winery Margaret River. After a busy day off to bed

Up early to check out of our hotel in Perth on our trip down South. Went for another 400m swim in the WACA pool and then joined Jacs for breakfast at the WACA cafe. Then drove towards Busselton stopping off at the Dolphin centre and aquarium at Bunbury Interesting tour of the aquarium.

After a coffee and piece of cake drove onto the Hilton Garden Hotel in Busselton.

After the 223 km drive went for a walk to explore Busselton and decided to eat in the hotel before going to bed

Up early and went to the West Australian Cricket Association (WACA) Aquatic Centre for a swim and a tour of the Gym. Had a 600m swim 🏊‍♂️ in the outdoor 50 m pool which overlooked the magnificent cricket ground as did the gym

After swim walked through the Queens Garden and had breakfast at local cafe near hotel. Went back to hotel and we went on a walk into Perth to visit the Booloo Bardip museum and spent a few hours in this lovely museum that went through all aspects of Western Australia.

On the way back to the hotel we saw a group of Iranian supporters to take over Iran in support of the Shah and went through a Japanese event

After breakfast at the Exmouth bakery filed up the hire car at petrol station in Exmouth. The petrol is going up daily due to the war in Iran. Nearly doubled since arriving in Perth at the start of the war. Onto Leamouth airport to catch the flight back to Perth (post trip note – this airport was seriously damaged a couple of the weeks after we were there by a category 4 Cyclone. This cyclone also devastated our chalet resort and much of Exmouth and we were lucky to see Ningaloo before this) Flight on time and arrived in Perth after a couple of hours

Up Early to drive to the Tantabiddi Jetty to join the snorkelling tour on Ningaloo glass bottom boat, We were guided by Lucy Tait but it was very windy and choppy in the sea but good snorkel

To be continued with selected video later from snorkeling escapade

Carried on to Jurabi Turtle centre along the coast. Suddenly hit by flies and out came the nets

We then drove onto Yardie creek for a hike along the gorge. Very hot 🥵 in high 30’s C. This was the end of the road.

Then went onto the Vlamingh Head lighthouse for a quick tour before going back to the chalet to pack and an evening meal at the resort. Busy day

Easy day as a bit sunburnt from snorkelling – still windy and did a bit of shopping in Exmouth and had dinner in Blue Lips fish and chips shop for fried snapper and other additional items such as squid

Up early for 200m swim in the resort pool. Went into Exmouth for coffee then onto two snorkelling beaches – Turquoise bay for drift snorkelling but the currant was strong . It was very sunny and mid 30’s C. Spent 30 minutes drifting down the bay. We then went onto Oyster Stacks which was better for snorkelling but it was a choppy seas. Some shots of the snorkelling,

To be continued with videos of snorkeling

After this drove down to Yardy Creek for a short hike down the Gorge. Back to the Hotel after this and picked up a pizza at Whalebones and had a local beer