We are just leaving Shannon National Park, a fair way from the last place I blogged. For the last 3 days we have stayed in a lodge in the national park, quite secluded from anyone else and we really enjoyed being able to spread out. The activities we did included the Great Forest Tree Drive where we saw huge Karri, Marri and Jarra trees and visiting the G—– tree, which is 60 metres tall. Some of us climbed the ladder of steel pegs that had been driven into the tree, all the way to the top. The view was amazing and the drop was dizzying!

Backtracking a bit, I’ll give an overview of the couple of weeks. From Toodyay we drove through Perth and stayed at a caravan park in Fremantle where the weather cleared up considerably. We drove back into Perth and hired some extra bikes so that the whole family could ride through King’s Park and eat lunch at a kiosk there. During out time there we also visited SCITEC, a Perth version of Questacon and we watch a presentation about astronomers. On the Sunday we went to church and then the girls shopped in the Fremantle markets and the boys walk down the street to the Maritime Museum and did a tour through a submarine.

In Margaret River we stayed at a working sheep farm the doubled as a caravan park and we took a day trip to Augusta where the wind was very strong and the water was COLD!! We got a treat at the lolly shop at Hamilin Bay and visited Cape Leuwin, the most South-east point of Australia!

We also did some recreational activities as mum put it, riding for the girls and mountain biking for the boys. Poor dad was sore the next day! ;D

Our next destination was Pemberton and the national park we are leaving now. We are bound for Albany with about 2 and a half weeks left to the trip! I am determined to enjoy these last few weeks of travel before we return to normal life, even though the whole family is pretty tired.