Margaret River

 

What a lovely farmers market they have. We had a good look around and bought a few things, then checked out the local shops and stuff. We had t'd up with Nicks mate Patto and wife Jess to catch up for dinner, and we were both excited to see them again, after nearly 8 years.

We had an explore at the shops, very tourist driven main street, but many interesting shops to look through. We restocked at the Coles, and got informed at the information centre. We even found a little health shop that sold vegan pies and vego food's, so we had lunch sorted. Nicks was nice, but I'm a bit suspect on the pie I ate.

We went for a lovely stroll on the beach and took the dogs for a big walk, the sun came out so we had a little nap on the beach for an hour or so to soak up the sun, we found a nice little spot, tucked away from everybody. This beach was full of surfers, Prevelly Beach. I was inspired to do some surfing lessons, but after a bit of research, discovered they we out of our budget. So we shall keep an eye of for a second hand board, and a wet suit.

We spent a great night catching up with Patto and Jess, and meeting their adorable daughters Lara and Sophie. Jess and I ended up hitting the sack round 10:30 and Nick only came to bed round 1ish, so I believe that he and Patto had a great time catching up, and drinking a few beers. They have an awesome house just a few streets off the main strip, prime location. This was a morning shot taken as Patto was heading out the door for work on Monday morning, thanks Jess my camera was flat.



After another beach walk, it started to rain so we went exploring the many breweries in the area. With so may to choose from we narrowed it down to two. I was designated driver. Cowaramup was great. its very flashy, nothing like our beloved brew boys back in Adelaide.

 We feel like we may have chosen to sit in the kiddy chairs as they were the smallest one's in the place, and no-one else was at the but all the rest was pretty packed (bring on the inner child)

 The stout was fantastic according to Nick.

 

 

 

Next we headed to

 

Where we were drawn to sit by the fire, again when looking around we noticed that there we kids toys on the table, and the chairs were smaller than the rest.....

mmmm tasting paddle

After buying some pickled walnuts at the shop( eww they were gross, but felt the need to give 'em a try) we moved.

We spent another night with Patto and Jess, a lot earlier to bed for us all, being a Sunday night.  We packed up and headed off early the next morning, with a jar of home made apricot jam, its soo yummy, thanks Jess.