Busselton 2009

October 19th, Arrived in Busselton, after travelling down the coast road and stopping at Bunbury for lunch, we booked into the Kookaburra Caravan Park. This is a Council Park, very well kept, clean amenities and very cheap. Originally booked in for 3 days but now staying for 8 days. We walked across the road from our Park to look at The Jetty. The Jetty is 1.84 klms long and has an underwater Observatory at the end, to allow visitors to view the great variety of fish in Geographe Bay. Unfortunately, due to rotting pylons and a fire that burnt a section of the jetty down to the waterline, you can’t get out to the Observatory. They are currently working on a replacement jetty walkway, so a lot of pile driving being done, but it will be some time before the repairs are completed. We enjoyed a look through the Jetty’s Interpretive Centre Museum and Gift Shop.




October 20th, A very quiet relaxing day, caught up on the shopping and washing. We joined our new friends, Nerrida and Rob for a few enjoyable drinks at their Motorhome, before having a late dinner.

October 21st, To-day I went to the Busselton Museum which is at the Old Butter Factory. The Heritage Butter Factory building has ten display rooms packed with photographs, equipment and memorabilia covering everything from Agriculture to Whaling, with a display of the 1920’s Group Settlement Scheme.

October 22nd, We met with Nerrida and Rob at the Caravan Park Office at 9.45 am to go on a Bus Tour of the Margaret River Wineries. Our Tour Guide was Gerry from Cellar d’Or Tours and after picking up all the group we had 10 people, a good sized friendly group. We visited 5 wineries, had a platter lunch at a micro Brewery, visited an Olive Farm, the Margaret River Chocolate Factory, a Cheese Factory and were given a souvenir wine glass, a bookmark and a biro pen. The final thing was a chance to win a bottle of wine, we weren’t the lucky one. What a great days outing we had.

October 26th, I’ve spent the last few days writing up the period of our travels from January to June 2009, I have posted the update, so if you wish you can go back in the Blog you can read it. We packed up to-day ready to move on to-morrow. We expect to stay overnight at a Roadhouse before moving on to Albany.