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The Avon Valley to Esperance

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Hello Fam and Friends, I am writing these next few chapters in hindsight as we have already arrived back to Mansfield early November.  I regret that I haven't written in 'real time', one reason is for accuracy and secondly, you may have wondered if we had not been totally lost somewhere in WA. I realised somewhere around late August that our trip stopped being a holiday adventure, but rather the way we now live, and this has become our response to those that ask if we are enjoying our holiday, to which we reply, it's a lifestyle we have chosen.  Very liberating really, with a holiday, eventually you come back to what you left behind. Leaving Buntine Rocks, we travelled south to Toodyjay ( Toojay)  and left the mid-west wheat belt, scrub and wildflowers behind us.  This was replaced by wooded native forest, rolling hills and pretty, historical towns that were in fact only 85kms east of Perth.  These villages are frequented by city day trippers to enjoy the coun...
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Busselton and Wildflowers

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Dear Fam and Friends, We left Ben, Victoria and boys at Benger after having had a fabulous time at their farm.   We were so sad to leave, and this made us realise that we were missing our own families more than we had realised.   The weather had turned very miserable with freezing winds and rain, all of which added to our feelings. It was only a 100km south to Busselton, taking a pretty drive in from the main coast road (Highway 1), rather like Gippsland’s rolling green hills, although I’m sure it browns off in summer.  As mentioned previously, there had been extraordinary rainfall throughout the region and the paddocks were saturated; a mix of dairy and stud cattle farms predominantly, with plenty of lush pasture.   At Busselton I had booked through our time share a two-bedroom Sebel apartment south of the city, beautifully located on the beach, if only the weather had been more hospitable, we could have enjoyed the walks along the beach front, but the cold weathe...
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