222choppy: Kangaroo Count Dead:8 Live 1

Monday, October 24, 2016

Kangaroo Count Dead:8 Live 1

This morning we headed for Augusta -just a small seaside town - and then on to the southern most point of Western Australia at the Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse. We wondered about doing "the tour" of it but the place is swarming with Asian tourists so we declined and went for a cuppa at Augusta.

We have seen cow models at Cowaraup and witch models at Witchcliffe, but thankfully no models at Dead Point, although it proudly announced "Wheelchair Access".

Our next destination was Pemberton. We had to pass through Blackwood National Park - very scuffy firedamaged forest, unrelentingly the same for KMs - which is why I guess we took to counting dead kangaroos

Pemberton was another small quite old fashioned town. We enjoyed our lunch here including olives and oranges thatAndrea gave us and cheese from the factory we visited yesterday.

We drove through more National Park with some magnificent stands of Karri (a eucalypt - not a kauri). We slewed off the main road to go to the Diamond tree which is one of the karri trees in the district that you can climb. Dont know what you would do if you met someone coming down as you were going up! Duncan didn't go too far up. It didn't look very "Health and Safety Approved"!

The highlight of today's travelling was finding Truffle Hill Farm and Winery. We enjoyed a truffle fasting platter and some very elegant wines in a tasting flight. Truffle is a condiment, not a food so we had it in mustard, aioli, oil and honey

Again GPS let us down, but with a stroke of luck we spotted a brand new road saying 36km to Margaret River - a very, very straight road. It must have saved us 100km of travel!

That night we went to Miki's Tempura Kitchen at 6.10pm precisely. We chose the degustation meal with wine matching. Unfortunately the wines were of very poor quality. The initial dishes were very exciting but then we had a very long wait and received a very poor dish.