South for the Winter Day 5

Day 5 The Final


I really don't want to go home, I'm more than comfortable staying right where I am! I guess someone will come looking for me if I vanish!


The car is packed and ready to go. We head home to the reality of life, I can feel the stress levels picking up when we get to Armadale.


And the Mochmeister is overjoyed to see us come home to him after a week of playing with his Nan & Pop.

South for the Winter Day 4

Day 4


I'm going to buy a Lotto ticket today, I'm feeling lucky!

Pam & Peter come to have lunch with us, we went to The Goose in Busselton. It was very nice, we were over looking the sea and the Busselton Jetty. We went for a walk in town, got a Lotto ticket and headed into Dunsborough for a drive.












Came back to the hotel and went for a walk around the grounds, spent a little bit of time at the beach then headed into the Cafe for coffee and cake.


What an afternoon, it's been great.

South for the Winter Day 3

Day 3

Great weather for the ducks! A front has hit us and we are in for the day. A good time to catch up on some reading, take advantage of the spa and watch a movie and having some newly bought Chenin.

If you look closely enough you can see the ducks taking advantage an unused pool - they were having a great time.

The bar doesn't open until 5pm so we got ready and headed down before dinner. Had a few more cocktails and put the bar manager to the test. He was a nice man, he even gave Andrew a free Tolblerone cocktail.

The food was great and huge meals we just can't have an entree and a main meal - let's not even discuss desert! On our last night we are going to go to the Atrium Brasserie for dinner - it's been recommended and the fact that very few people were dining there made it even more personal.

Everything was great.

South for the Winter Day 2

Day 2

Today we headed to Dunsborough, Augusta, Yallingup, Margaret River, Cowaramup and back to Busselton.

Wow, Dunsborough is really growing. There's new estates popping up everywhere, no longer is it a sleepy little town. We hit the road after a brief drive through and headed for Torpedo Rocks. That was magnificent you can see as far away as Canal Rocks - if you look hard enough. A little further down the road we got to Slippery Rocks at Yal

lingup. Have a look at how high the sea spray was...it looks like rain. There are fantastic houses with the most spectacular views of the coast, now there's a sea change!

Off to Canal Rocks, such a great place! I had this great urge to throw a line in the water, I wonder what I would have caught. We left Canal Rocks & headed down Caves Road to Augusta. It's a long road but I found my winery - Flying Fish Cove so we stopped I had a few taste tests then bought a case of Oscars Leap & 3 bottles of Chenin Blanc. There were so many different wineries we couldn't possibly have stopped at them all. When I get low I'll be back.

Kept on driving until we got to sleepy Augusta, we went to the Historic Water Wheel. The area is just so great, then headed over to the light house and back into town for some lunch. Found a little place called The Colourpatch - Andrew had fish n chips, I had the chicken panini and had serious food regrets when I tasted Andrew's fish - the BEST I've ever tasted.

Got to Margaret River WOW has that grown. It's a thriving metropolis now all the mod cons of the city, it's almost as busy as Fremantle on the weekend. We drove on through checking it all out and carried on through to Cowaramup or Cow country as the locals call it. We stopped there and went to the Candy Cow - got Mocha a little stuffed cow and bought some fudge it's tastes so good you'd make yourself sick. Then popped in next door to the Cowaramup Gourmet Food Store - some fantastic stuff. Found the Madfish Winery there also, we'll definitely be coming back here!

Heading back to Busselton, we found the Margaret River Cheese Factory and I was just so excited at finding Flying Fish Cove I didn't look for anything else :-)

Back at the hotel we relaxed in a nice spa, got ready for dinner, headed for the bar where yes I had a Jojo Ivory, then another then another. We had another great meal then back to the room for more relaxation.

South for the Winter Day 1

Day 1

Well this past week Andrew & I took a week off and headed south to Busselton. We stayed at the Abbey Beach Resort which was very nice indeed. Nice room, nice view of 3 pools and the cafe. We are right on the beach so even better.

Being off season, it was really quiet, which was fantastic absolute peace! We've taken a walk around the hotel grounds and it's just huge. There's room for everyone to do something, art gallery, kids playground, tennis courts, gym, indoor heated pool & spa, squash court, great food & 2 bars.

On the first day we headed into town for a bit of shopping, did some relaxing then went to the cafe and had a scrumptious dinner then went back to the room where we lay & let our dinner go down. We discovered the cocktail for the week was a Jojo Ivory of which you know I had to have.