I'm joking....we didn't buy property although tempting, and Michael was dreaming of becoming a butcher but didn't get to the chopping, but I did join a knitting group and met the most beautiful people and did actually make a jumper!!!!!!! Justine the lovely lady that owns The Wool Shop held my hand through many stitches and you can just sit on the big comfy sofas all day if you want and just knit, knit,knit. She has many classes that you can just come and meet the locals while knitting and drinking coffee from Yahava and having a good old laugh. I know me knitting, but it was more than that for me, the people of Margaret River are really special. They all look out for one another and are the friendliest most thoughtful group of beings. All the people we have met here have touched us deeply, we feel like we are part of their community and have opened their hearts to all of us. After all the travel and incredible people we have met along the way, we will have treasured memories of this place.
Having the coast and the beaches right at you door stop you have the best of both worlds. The surfing here is unreal, and we did travel north to Cape Naturaliste which rugged but beautiful.
South to Cape Leeuwin, Augusta where the tallest lighthouse in mainland Australia is at 39 meters high and 176 steps later, it was very impressive. We did the tour and it was well worth it including the eeriness of past light keeper's ghosts.
Margaret River has some impressive caves to see if you have time. We went to Mammoth Cave and at $50 for a family and an audio tour was good value. This cave is millions of years old and active stalagmites and stalactites it was really cool to see. The kids loved it, they could go at their own pace and at such history and findings of fossils we all were really impressed with the scale of how big this cave actually is .
On the farm today the owners daughter is bringing some baby rabbits to farm this afternoon which we are all excited about, she's going to start breeding them for meat. We have extended our stay 3 times this week we can't seem to bring ourselves to leaving this place. Phoebe has started knitting so we are having an afternoon session overlooking the hills and pulling the balls of wool out while we look at the woolly sheep. Spencer is going to finish naming all the sheep, you should see all the little lambkins with their mums. They don't go very far from them and the cheeky ones play chasey which is so funny. There are no male lambs as they go off to slaughter at about 6 months old. Sheep only live to 8 or 9 and they have their babies around Easter so it has been a real treat to see the babies with their mum's. Michael has been getting up and close with permaculture so there might be a farm in the distant future.
So we reluctantly leave Margaret River unless we wake up tomorrow and extend again???? Having fond memories and nearly losing us to this place we will catch up next time from Albany and Esperance.
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