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Margaret River


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Decided to stay in Dunsborough that night drove for about 3 hours to get there. Poor Denis on his lack of sleep from the Irish Coffees! Dunsborough is very weird quite little spot. We were the only people in the hostel. Decided to get an early one so we could do a bit of touring the next day.
Landed Early enough in Margaret River did a bit of driving about, saw some serious surfing they were wearing helmets and the waves were absolutely massive! Headed off to see one of the famous caves down here a bit later on. Mammoth Cave. Really cool and cold :) spent an hour or 2 touring about here did a bit of bush walking too! lol!
Booked ourselves into a wine tour the next day and headed back to the hostel.

Up early to head off on our wine tour! They supplied us with a steak/Chicken BBQ first something to do with RSA (responsible service of Alcohol!) Denis Happy enough with the steak! went to 3 differant wineries the water shed, redgate and belammey... great fun! Tasted at least 5 differant wins in each place.... we didnt do the spitty thing! such a waste! :) drank some lovely wine and some really differant ones... one made with chilli! Also stopped off at a venison factory, a chocolate factory (yummmmmy!!! :)) and a cheese Factory! oh yeah and finished up in a micro brewery doing a bit of beer tasting!great days craic! stumbled home at 6ish!

Headed back to Perth the next day, picked up Sarah beautiful day so headed off to the beach Cottesloe, did a bit of a walkaround and back to Sarahs new flash pad for a bit of dinner!

Booked ourselves into oneWorld BackPackers, Lovely hostel really friendly and helpful staff. Dropped car back the next day at a total loss as to what to do next.....we had been thinking about going to bali or making our way to Broome as perth is getting a good bit colder now. Walked past a travel agents the next day with big posters for Bali on a budget....went in and came out with a 3 week trip booked :) thought we were getting it for half price but that turned out to be too good to be true... stil tho got a good deal and as we have no plan and loads of time we say Why the hell not!
Booked ourselves into Dorm room back in Billabong after forking out that cash :( Sharing with Paul our Liverpool friend and Raj - a fijian guy (70 +) over here to meet his cyber girlfriend!!! he turned out to be The ultimate snoring champion! He was sleeping on the bunk below me and i swear the bed actually shook! never heard anything like it... little nicky has got nothing on this guy. The possesed human chainsaw. Thankfully he left the next day.
Headed to fremantle on a ferry the next day for a bit of touring about, some seriously expensive real estate along the river. way out of our budget!! Back at the hostel later that night decided to have a few bevies, Met Paul and a gang of Tyrone ones and limerick schoolmates and a few from Galway and Norway! Turned out to be champions league final at 3am that night so headed off to the casino to watch it. played roulette then lost all our winnings on one game of black jack! watched first half and headed back way too late for us oldies!

Chilling out for the next few days til we head to Bali on sunday :) :)

Posted by denlou 23.05.2008 01:49 Archived in Australia

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