Hello once again!
March has been and gone - how time flies! The month for us went exceptionally quickly as we spent 2 weeks of it in and around Denmark WA, taking the van so we could do a bit of bush camping as well as staying with John and Silvia. It was great, even though the weather wasn't and we had a lovely time, so we have loads of photos! (There's quite a lot of our Denmark grandkids at the end at their school's Autumn Equinox celebration)) While we were there, I played bowls at the local club and won a bottle of wine in a raffle the first time, then on the following Friday won the Scroungers so received 2 bottles of wine, chuckle! Mike did some walking while I bowled.
Firstly though, here's all the other general news:
John and Silvia celebrated their anniversary and we babysat for them so they could have an 'overnighter' in Nornalup by the river. They had a great time, and managd to get some canoeing in too!
Jo is still busy 'arting' in various places, and Lizzie won a prize for her Numbat picture at the Beverly Art Exhibition. She has also done very well at school and is off to Italy with some of her school mates for an educational visit very soon. Alex is still drawing beautiful pictures under the tuition of her Art teacher and is also enjoying teaching Senior Citizens. Simon won a $500 gym membership in a competition for a photograph of his shadow on a bike.
As there are so many photos of our holiday I will put them up with captions underneath. If you want to see just the photos, just click on the first one and it should bring up a window where you can view them one after the other by clicking on them.
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| Maisie at John's - keeping in touch! |
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| Maya playing in her bedroom |
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| John giving us an early (rainy) morning visit in the van |
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| Cosy Corner |
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| Cosy Corner picnic area |
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| A friendly Corella....... |
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| .....and Blue Wren near the picnic table |
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| A view of Cosy Corner from the lookout. |
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| Peaceful Bay |
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| Peaceful Bay |
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| Peaceful Bay - view of the Lifeboat Station from the lookout |
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| Peaceful Bay |
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| Sandy Beach, Walpole - near the inlet...... |
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| .......where we camped |
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| Amazing patterns on an old cut branch on the walk..... |
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| .......from Sandy Beacth to Rest Point |
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| Rest Point...... |
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| Mike inside a big tree near Walpole |
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| See below...... |
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| Maisie looking up to the top! |
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| This one is too big to hug! |
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| Peaceful Bay again - not very peaceful to-day!..... |
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| On the climb to Mt Frankland Fire Lookout |
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| View about 1/2 way up..... |
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| .....getting nearer the top..... |
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| ....the directional dial at the top! |
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| Ditto |
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| What a wonderful view!........ |
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| ...and who's this spoiling it, chuckle! |
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| The highest point......... |
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| ....and the high tech equipment above |
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| You can just see our walking sticks against the directional dial |
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| Coming back down - we'd climbed 300 steps and these 25 ladder rungs to get to the top! |
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| Some of the steps going back down |
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| All the info at the bottom! |
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| Rowleys Pool |
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| Our camp site at Fernhook Falls |
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| On a walk to Mt Pingerup, near Walpole...... |
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| ....Marsh Bottlebrush in bloom on the way.... |
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| .....tired but happy, at the top! |
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| Maya, Emil and John playing together |
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| Hardy folks on a wet day on the Denmark River |
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| Yes, we did manage a swim at Ocean Beach!.... |
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| ...surfers in the distance (you can hardly see them!) |
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| Tide patterns in the sand |
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| Steps down to Conspicuous Beach and cliffs..... |
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| ....view of the cliffs from the beach..... |
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| ....a pool behind the dunes...... |
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| .....the beach - it was one with squeaky sand when you walked!..... |
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| ....view from the dunes of Maisie on the beach |
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Steiner School Auntumn Equinox Celebrations (Silvia did a lot of the organising for this). All siblings were in the same colour - our lot wore blue
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| The Centrepiece |
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| Benjamin |
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| Maya |
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| Emil - centre standing in blue shirt |
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| Benjamin on the rope ladder above quite a deep gully! Very plucky! |
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| Emil's turn... |
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| ...then Maya.... |
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| ...and this was the gully view from the bottom on the ladder to the rope bridge! |
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| John bringing out the lunch food, and Silvia in the stripy hat in the background in charge of the 'littlies' |
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| Emil and John playing at the Sustainable Living Exhibition |
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| The paella we made for the family on the day before we came home |
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| And we hope you all had a Happy Easter as we did! |
See you all again next month :-)
