The Avon Valley to Esperance
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...