Cowaramup

Tuesday, 14 June

Today we visited Busselton, about a half hour drive from  Cowaramup. The sun was shining and I even had to put my sunglasses on to drive!

Our first stop was for coffee at The Lockup, a cafe in the old courthouse.

Second, and most important was the famous Busselton jetty, the longest timber-piled jetty in the Southern Hemisphere, built around 1865. We decided to walk out and catch the little train back. It was so good to walk that jetty on a sunny, calm day.

Quarter of the way I took photos looking back and forward. We stopped to talk to a couple of blokes who were fishing for squid, with no success. They said the water was too murky. We finally reached the very end after about 40 minutes and a distance of 1.841 km.

There were some paintings of the local whales which showed their size. Judy stood at the tail end of the humpback whale and I took a photo from his nose.

The little train was an easy ride back and took more than 15 minutes. It’s a very long jetty!

As we wandered down the Main Street the sky clouded over and we made it into a cafe just before a most tremendous downpour. The people on the jetty would have been drenched!

By the time we’d finished our cuppa the sky had cleared enough for us to get back to the car without getting wet. We headed back to Margaret River to check out the weir but the road that Google insisted was there, wasn’t. As it was raining again we gave up and came back to our cabin for a cosy last night in Cowaramup. It has been a very pleasant stay in this part of the world.