Margaret River – Cape Leeuwin

Today was a slower day, a bit of catch up on rest.

Three of us head south to Augusta and Cape Leeuwin light house. Its really hard to get the compassion in my head right, what is actually south feels like north, and vice versa. My head has it sorted by lunch time

It’s a pleasant drive south, not hot, a few scuds of rain, sunshine, cold wind. Four seasons in an hour weather.

Tge lighthouse is the tallest on mainland Australiaz built in 1895 and still a working lighthouse. It’s made of local linstone quarried not far away. It’s not been manned for many years but I think the stat’s show its effective, up until 1895 30+ ships are known to have perish on the 13km stretch of rocky islands off Cape Leeuwin, and since 1895 only one has perished. A navy destroy ( not the ship that perished) was hit by a freak wave in 1945 and ten sailors died. Its a hard remote beautiful bit of coast line. The wind is howling from the south and white top waves are everywhere, I can’t tell where the Indian Ocean meets the Great Southern Ocean visually but a line on a board shows me where it is. Apparently some days you can pick the line where the twon oceans meet, but not today.

We drive back and have a nice lunch at the bakery at Witchcliffe.

The Navigator is keen to have a look at a craft glass place, its only the edge of Margaret River. It’s called Melting Pot Glass, and it’s an interesting place. Nice Glass work, ramble tamble property, and very relaxed proprietors. She buys a couple of very nice glasses for our “places we’ve been cabinet”

The afternoon is spent shopping, looking in windows, checking out the condensed Margaret River shopping precinct. A few books are the purchases of the day.

A few drinks are procured and we watch Melbourne Storm steal the NRL game from Penrith. Tonight we eat in.

Kings cards tonight is won by a gloating smirking Don, he averaged 6-7 a hand and won by a mile. His day has come, hopefully tomorrow it will be gone.

Ciao from Margaret River. Tomorrow we head to Mandurah.

Pauolo