After sampling the wine we went down to the windsurfing beaches in Margaret river and sat on the cliff top to watch. It started off with mostly surfers then as the wind picked up kiters went out and once it was too much for them the windsurfers took over. There were some pretty good guys out including Scott McKercher (world champ a few years ago). The launching spot looks interesting, about 2m wide gap in the reef to launch and recover from!
Also managed to hire surfboards near yallingup and get a surf lesson. It turns out we're not half as good as we thought we were! They had us on foam boards relearning to pop up.
From yallingup we traveled further south through some forests that went on for ever and stayed in some very remote towns.
We're now in a place called Denmark, where we saw our first live kangaroos as a family of three hopped across the road in front of us. Becks was then primed with the camera and we saw some more again in a field but still not quite close enough. We then turned up at the campsite to find the place swarming with them. Plenty of pictures to follow no doubt.
Other things we've also done in no particular order are:
Go to the most south west tip of Australia where the Indian and southern oceans meet. Lots of flies there.
Climb the 75m Dave Evans tree, nice views.
See plenty of parrots. So tame they will sit on your shoulder, not ours unfortunately but some kids that were feeding them.
Find plenty of deserted beautiful beaches.
See dolphins.
Going to a honey farm where I located the queen bee amongst all the workers. A great personal achievement.
Now enjoying some honey mead and contemplating our plans for the next two weeks. Becks is due to start work on 3rd December, I'm still waiting to hear about my job and most crucially our windsurf kit is still on a ship somewhere in the Indian Ocean.
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