Margaret River weekend getaway

Alrighty, sorry for the bit of absence, was down at Margaret River for the weekend, or rather for a good bit of the weekend! Was suppose to stay till Sunday but we managed to cover most of the stuff we wanted to see plus a handful of vineyards as well, therefore we called it a wrap on Saturday night and came home one day earlier!!

The trip was fantastic, the wine was great, we visited quite a few, which were...1) Driftwood estate..2) moss brothers...3) cape lavender ( ok it's more of a lavender farm but they have lavender wine as well)...4) rockfield estate...5)berry farm (to die for scones plus scary birds that attack you and your food)... 6) Leeuwin estate...7) Voyager estate...9) watershed estate...10) evans & tate and of course we visited the Chocolate factory, the cheese factory and a few other cute stores!!

we went whale watching at augusta but to our dismay we didn't spot any. but ph well the view was teriffic, reminded e alot of the great Ocean road in Melbourne, the lighthouse was very pretty, although I think it doesn't beat those greek island ones. but then again as joel mentioned i have a liking for "things that stick out of sea" hmm well ok sounds a bit crude but hmmm...

the place we stayed at was really nice, it's called Magnolia Studios which is actually a garage turned bedroom (with all the essentials, like a toaster and coffee making facilities) owned by a family, nice lady! called robyn, her daughter was so sweet as she stood out near the entrance so we could find the house. we actually had to go to Quest apartments for some help as we couldn't locate it and absent minded me had forgotten to bring the telephone number!

We were going to stay at the local bed and breakfast but we had to cancel it , the lady running that was not very nice and given a chance, I would not stay there in the future, don't think I should do any naming as she relies on the bed and breakfast for her bread and butter and she lives alone, still she was pretty nasty and by all means was I being very nice about it till I got fed up and told her off because she was insinuating that we found some place else and didn't want to stay with her, and so I pointed out that we could have drove off and not drop by to pay the cancellation fee, that kept her quiet.. sheesh Australians!!! Actually to think of it we were this close to driving off but then my conscience got the better of me, and i thought that well if she was a widow and really did rely on this to feed her then we should pay the fee but if she was lying then it would be bad karma to her, least my conscience is clear, even my cousin said I should have driven off!!!

anyway the drive back was pretty smooth, we took the inland route which was shorter unlike the coastal route which we took when we drove down on friday. W made a few stiops here and there to refuel and to qipe off the squashed and very dead bugs which were splattered all over our windscreen!

oh and I think Scott and I have found the nicest hot chocolate around, it's at the Busselton cafe, near the busselton jetty, which yes we paid $2.50 each to walk the longest jetty in the southern hemisphere. It was a cold day and my ears felt as though they were going to dettach themselves from my head!!
But still it was such a pretty sight to be far form shore and to see the seagulls, I think Mom would give this a miss come November as I think the wind would mess up her hair too much = )

oh well, going to get some rest, thank goodness scott drove most of the way, he managed to finish his 25 hour log in period for his driver's.. yay!! now all we need is that car... =p