Riviera Motor Inn Busselton

Day 1 of the Oz travels and I guess the rest was work but that was a lot of fun too and a great job. I Had got a van from work that they were selling so all I needed was a few supplies, jerry can and gas a ig ass water container and I hit the road. The first stop was Mandurah where I had lunch on the beach and a pit stop then in Bunbury for a look about but there ...

... Matthew, un'ultima notte accampati in cinque nel van, e poi arriva l'alba. L'alba di un nuovo cammino, un nuovo capitolo di questo libro infinito che io chiamo viaggio; il sole che sta sorgendo portera' nuovi posti, nuovi amici, nuove avventure. Io e Carmen diamo uno sguardo con un pizzico di tristezza al van che si porta via tre indimenticabili amici, mentre Bianca si rituffa verso sud. Guardiamo la strada di fronte a noi, ed il viso ci si illumina di nuovo con un sorriso.

... River. Upon arriving, we were looking forward to having dinner with Jeannie and Howie. This is an option they provide to guests who arrive on Friday evening for the weekend. Jeannie cooked up a fantastic two course meal consisting of Beef Wellington for the main course and a Hazelnut Meringue for dessert! Our toughest decision for the evening was selecting a bottle of red! Not so easy, especially ...

We had an early start to catch the bus up to Busselton (not helped by drinking far too much wine and lager with a group of Irish lads the previous night!) Fortunately the trip was only a short one..... We visited the famous long wooden jetty, the longest wooden jetty in the Southern Hemisphere and 2nd longest in the world at 1,841 meters (nearly 2km!), the ...

Just when you thought our lives sounded a bit too cruisy we decided to take a little camping trip down to Margaret River. We packed up Priscilla and headed south. MR is a delightful place and the main reason for going....the vineyards. we jumped on a tour named "wine for dudes" run by a guy who was definately a dude alright, his opening line when introducing us to wine was "there are only two things you need to know when wine tasting...whether you like it... or whether you ...

... there either which was a shame. I got myself some food from the BBQ and a drink and sat and listened to the speeches then luckily a woman recognised me as I was helping her in the changing tent and I got chatting to her and her husband (and slyly introduced to a male friend of hers who was my age and 'just happened to be single'....how embarrasing!). She invited me to go rowing with her club tomorrow but I'm leaving early to head back to Perth.

... record time and were in the car 10 minutes later.

Simon wasn't too impressed with our late arrival - I wouldn't have been either if I'd left work early especially - but didn't make a big deal about it, top man that he is ;)

Once packed we headed off for Busselton, which is co-incidentally the ...

... of walking in the door we were given a tasting of our choice of 12 wines (or we could "work our way down the list of all 12"). We chose some chardies, a rosé, merlot and cab sav. Delish! Smacking our lips together with a bottle of their finest rosé in our hot, little hands we returned to the beach. RogerThat were just as thrilled as we were about our wine tasting discovery and decided to join us on a wine tasting tour of the region the following day. There's ...

... enough fishing, eating and swimming and decided to leave.... the engine wouldn't start.... an hour passes.... our shoulders are hurting so we decide to flag down another boat - after discussing which was the best way to get their attention we decided on the jump up and down, waving arms and shouting for help should do it!!! It did, but they had no luck with it either so we had to call the boat centre and get them to come out and tow ...

... de Pascal, Seb et Marie. Je ne les ai recroise que vite fait les jours suivants car je suis alors devenue trop occupee avec mon nouveau bracelet VIP (siouplait!). Merci a Josh Lewan, surfeur pro de Byron Bay, et mes amis israeliens numero 1 et 2! J'ai ainsi passe les 4 jours suivants a lezarder au soleil aux cotes des Jax/Maz Quin (NZ), Fabio Gouveia (BR) Bobby Hansen (NZ), Tom Innes (AUS), Mark Ochiluppo (legende australienne et grand gagnant). L ...