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We're back! Basically we got bored of the country and wanted to come home, check our mail, and play with our new appliances like the pathetic, soul-less city folk we are.
That said, we had a fantastic time. Cam has put some photos up here but has yet to go through the hundred gazillion "pretty shot of ocean and/or trees"s. Becuase it was SO PRETTY. On the first day we took the "scenic route" the few km up the coast to the lighthouse on the Indian/Southern ocean border and ended up spending all our time on detours to the Oh So Pretty beachy bits.(*)
I'm such a liar. At the wedding I was going on about how I hate beaches and don't eat chocolate, yet spent the first day gleefully climbing rocks and paddling feet on a beach, and the second eating as many free samples as I could find. More accurately: I don't like beaches unless they have at least one of: islands/sandbanks that I can paddle to, interesting nature, or large smooth rocks I can clamber over. I do like, say, beaches with a natural spring going through a wetland then over a limestone encrusted water wheel, rock pools and lots of big smooth interesting looking granite rocks, with wooded hills behind and rocky islands ahead(**). It's just that when people say "do you want to go to the beach" that's not usually the sort of beach they're talking about. Also they generally expect me to swim, blech.
Also I ate very small samples. It is taking all my will not to devour the small piece of fudge I bought from margaret river.
While we were gone I gained the ability to control animals with my mind (ie we visited a birds-of-prey sancturary. It was cooler than it sounds) Oh, and the post title comes from the name of a restaurant whose menu was in the chalet we rented. We did not try them out :)
We still haven't unpacked, preferring to spend our time playing with the sewing machine.
Anyway, I'm feeling a little overwhelmed by all the things I want to do (unpack, answer email, etc) so I may end rather abruptly right.....here.
(*)And then missed the lighthouse tour, decided it was all too much effort and instead went to the equally pretty (in a very different way) Jewel cave.
(**)The sand being in parts glittering with mica and in others red with feldspar and dotted with strange karstic structures like sandstone teeth doesn't hurt either. Heh. First year geology really got under my skin but of course my description may be way off :)
That said, we had a fantastic time. Cam has put some photos up here but has yet to go through the hundred gazillion "pretty shot of ocean and/or trees"s. Becuase it was SO PRETTY. On the first day we took the "scenic route" the few km up the coast to the lighthouse on the Indian/Southern ocean border and ended up spending all our time on detours to the Oh So Pretty beachy bits.(*)
I'm such a liar. At the wedding I was going on about how I hate beaches and don't eat chocolate, yet spent the first day gleefully climbing rocks and paddling feet on a beach, and the second eating as many free samples as I could find. More accurately: I don't like beaches unless they have at least one of: islands/sandbanks that I can paddle to, interesting nature, or large smooth rocks I can clamber over. I do like, say, beaches with a natural spring going through a wetland then over a limestone encrusted water wheel, rock pools and lots of big smooth interesting looking granite rocks, with wooded hills behind and rocky islands ahead(**). It's just that when people say "do you want to go to the beach" that's not usually the sort of beach they're talking about. Also they generally expect me to swim, blech.
Also I ate very small samples. It is taking all my will not to devour the small piece of fudge I bought from margaret river.
While we were gone I gained the ability to control animals with my mind (ie we visited a birds-of-prey sancturary. It was cooler than it sounds) Oh, and the post title comes from the name of a restaurant whose menu was in the chalet we rented. We did not try them out :)
We still haven't unpacked, preferring to spend our time playing with the sewing machine.
Anyway, I'm feeling a little overwhelmed by all the things I want to do (unpack, answer email, etc) so I may end rather abruptly right.....here.
(*)And then missed the lighthouse tour, decided it was all too much effort and instead went to the equally pretty (in a very different way) Jewel cave.
(**)The sand being in parts glittering with mica and in others red with feldspar and dotted with strange karstic structures like sandstone teeth doesn't hurt either. Heh. First year geology really got under my skin but of course my description may be way off :)
