Walpole, Albany, Bremer Bay

Don and Judith left front, Joan back left and Brian on the back right

We ended up spending a full week in Walpole and could have happily have spent another one. It was one of the nicest parks we’ve stayed in and once again we were a bit sad to leave. Still, it’s good to leave feeling like that rather than vowing never to return!

After leaving Walpole, we went to Albany where we’d arranged to meet our friends Don and Judith. By the time we got there, they’d met the neighbours Brian and Joan from Taree NSW and the 6 of us had a great time. We met Don and Judith in Streaky Bay last year, and they have just come from there again. This is their first trip to WA and so far they are having a wonderful time-they’ll be away from home for 10 months this trip. I think we’ll be able to catch up with them again further up north or even in Darwin towards the end of July.

Yesterday after a visit to the best farmers market we’ve been to so far, I spent a nice couple of hours showing Don how to set up the blog he wanted to start, then in the evening the 6 of us went out for Japanese. It was the first time for the other 4 (eating Japanese) and luckily everyone enjoyed it a lot.

Russ and I arrived in Bremer Bay about 1.15 today. Bremer Bay is about 180ks east of Albany and about 350 west of Esperance. About 5 years ago, we drove our car over to Perth and called in here to eat our lunch and have a look. It’s somewhere I have always wanted to come back to. Now with 2 weeks here, we can see if it was really such a good idea. The park is nice (with a pizza restaurant lots of travellers have recommended to us) and our site is very big and reasonably private (which will be good over Easter). We are right by the pool, but I don’t think I (or anyone else) will be wanting to use it as the days are getting much colder.