The Vines Perth

... boom in the mineral extraction business in the north of the state. Many people have their homes in the more temperate areas around Perth, (relatively speaking that is!) and fly regularly up and down to work in the mining industry. A new area to the north ...

... around it. A forty minute drive West next, to Marks parents lovely home in the centre of their vineyard. Stroll under the vines picking table grapes to taste. Lovely dappled light through the vines. Back home then and freshen up for Thai Restaurant ...

... a tiny little corner of the country. So much more to see and do! Staying with an old friend from home just outside Perth. He's currently lodging with a Zimbabwean family in a place called "The Vines" around 35km north of the city. The family are ...

... or so sitting on the porch of this abandoned house cooling down and eating lunch, and a few stolen grapes from the surrounding vines. Store bought grapes will never taste the same these were sooo good! On to Kate's next blunder...(Perth seemed to be ...

... Katherine via Shark bay, the Ningaloo reef and the Kimberley before heading south to Uhuru. Originally I was going to head east from Perth through the gold fields and the Nullabor desert to Port Augusta, but there's not a great deal to see on this route. ...

... to meet someone who is in the middle of one... I have so many questions! We will be staying in a mud cabin 4 hours south of Perth. Ella and I may have finally mastered the walk left, turn door knobs and keys to the left, open gates to the left, turn ...

... there. After sampling the two wineries, we had lunch at Riverbank Estate. We ended our "tour" at the Margaret River Chocolate Company. Perth continues to impress me each day I spend here. I'll let the fotos (especially the food porn) I captured tell the ...

... Out was a wicked day in the sun listening to many talented artisits including our favorites like: The Herd, The Streets, The Vines, The Killers, The John Butler Trio, Muse, TOOL, and so much more!!!!!!!!!  What an awesome day with ...

... wine tour commencing mid morning in the Swan Valley (for the overseas folk - one of the wine regions just outside of Perth.) We travelled around in a mini van for most of the day hitting various wineries (Baskerville Estate, Sitellas, Carilley Estate and ...

... , in the park we saw Gija Jumulu - a Boab Tree (750 yrs old), which travelled 32,000km from Telegraph Tree (Western Australia) to Perth. This was the longest land journey of a tree this size in history! Gija people in East Kimberley gifted the tree to the ...

... ; This was quite entertaining but we were glad the tour was only 6 hours! The Swan River was beautiful, unfortunately as it's winter the vines are not bearing fruit or even leaves..or even vines!  Still, the scenery was very nice!  We stopped at ...

... nbsp;Despite MOG, Margaret River wines are generally thought to be among the best in all of Australia. Because few of the vines are irrigated, the concentrated flavors of the wine were amazing--particularly with foods we hadn't enjoyed in a very long ...

... Dam We wanted to study the history of architect CY O'Connor. This amazingly brilliant engineer designed a dam near Perth and then built a pipeline to Kalgoorlie to provide water to the gold mining regions. His amazing contribution to Western ...

... on with Helen's friend, Pam, to do a wine tour of the Swan Valley.  We bought a case of lovely wine called "3 Vines" at the Lancaster winery.  The 3 vines were: Chardonnay, Chenin Blanc and Verdelho.  They are apparently picked at lower ...

... encouraged to go in and taste the wines. Sandalwood is one of the larger ones and they use their huge acreage not just for vines but also for massive high profile concerts. Sting, Michael Buble, Aretha and a whole host of other stars have performed there. ...

... eat SuperNoodles at university so I've got no plans to start now - even if they are cheap beyond compare. Day 128 - Perth - Rockingham - Mandurah - Bunbury - Fremantle A day of real freedom as we hired a car fo the first time this year. While ...

... that live there and fly about, and a big fountain to sit beside. Very relaxing. Also, Graham has got a job, in Pemberton, 5hrs south of Perth. It's for 3 weeks also, pruning vines. Will have updates in 3 weeks time once we have finished our ...

... baked scones with cream for them. We later roamed the farm and picked lemons from the orchard and grapes from the vines, the kids thoroughly enjoying these activities. Maegs was chased by geese looking for more bread after she ran out whilst feeding ...