South west corner and then east

 We stuck to the coast south of Perth for a while - Bunbury ad Bussellton are the big towns in the area.  They are great towns they seem to have everything and more they are right on the beach!! Probably a little better in summer.

We now have moved into the sort of axed shape bit at the bottom corner of WA - visited Cape Naturaliste Lighthouse and then down through the Margaret River area - we are not into doing the cellar door visits when we are travelling - the bus is pretty cramped so usually if we want a wine or something it gets bought and drunk within hours.  So gathering the occasional dozen from the winery just doesn't work for us. It was however surprisingly hard to purchase local wine at the bottleshops - maybe a bit expensive for the locals or they drink their own!  If you intended to visit every winery in the area I think it would take months they are everywhere.

A little further south and you hit the most south-westerly part of Australia - Cape Leeuwin with one of the tallest lighthouses in Australia.  All along this coast from Cape Naturaliste down the sea-faring history is long interesting and full of sad tails of shipwrecks. (hence the lighthouses).

He turned our noses to the east and find ourselves with this beautiful coastline on one side and the amazing Karri and Jarrah Forrest's on the other side of us it has been a very special couple of weeks.

Another night in the forrest - a bottle of local red and good fire. 

What do you do with some great coals leftover from last nights fire - you make damper (I will tell you a secret I don't actually know what damper is so I just use my scone recipe)  -sorry about the photo I have a new camera and I was playing with the filters and I forgot to turn dramatic off. 

This is pretty amazing!

We went on a treetop walk - it gets to around 40 meters off the ground and the trees still tower over you.  As you can see it rained on us - I suppose trees don't get this big without lots of rain. 

Enlarge this photo and look down the bottom in the middle - that is the suzi car, it just gives you some idea of the size of the trees. 

A lot of the area is National Park  - We snuck  a ittle way into a couple - don't tell anyone.