Surfing, wine tasting and the ocean

We saw so many things this week that it is hard to even decide with what to start! In the beginning of the week we cycled into the Margaret River region known for its wines and surfers. On Monday we did a trip from Yalingup to some wineries and did wine tasting. Well that was delicious! We tried lovely whites and reds and bought a bottle for the evening. If you want to see one of the wineries, please see Rivendell or Deep Woods.

Margaret River, the city, was our goal on Tuesday. Again it was a rainy day unfortunately, but i was fine. We cycled all the way from Yellingup to Margaret River through the wine area and bought 2 bottles ;-) And had a coffee in Gugelhupf place in Yellingup.

As we arrived to MR we got to know that next day the Surfing competition of the best surfers in the world would start! Well how cool is that to be here and watch it! Of course we went there and spent the whole day on the beach watching the guys fighting with the 4-5m high waves. The atomsphere of the event like that was very relaxed, with families watching, surfers giving their signatures to the fans or even let the young fans carry the surf borad.

After relaxing the whole day, we left MR towards Augusta. We are using side roads to avoid the main traffic, since because of the surfing competition and school holidays the high ways are quite busy. Luckily for us no highway means lovely views. Farm land, wine plantations and since we had rain everything is as green as in Europe in this time of the year! Amazing for Western Australia.

On our way to Augusta we travelled on a Caves Road and indeed there were a few caves one can visit! We were in Calgadarup Cave and we liked it a lot! 

A few kilometers further south we found a great camoground to stay for a lunch, but since it was so good we decided to stay there overnight! That is the really cool thing about travelling with no time constraints as we do! If we like the place we stay!

From the campground we went for a small ride to the beach and that was the landscape of our trip so far! The place is called Conto and should you ever have the chance to get there, just do it.

That is also here we celebrated Doros b-day.

Next day we got to Hamelin Bay with sting rays and dolphins all over the place. We feel a bit lik in a zoo here.

We are leaving now the Ocean for a few days and go throug amazing woods towards Pemberton.But please do not think Australia is flat like a pan cake. The ride from Hamlin Bay to Pemberton was really hilly with a lot of up and down.

We saw large trees, and Peter even climbed up a 53m high tree! 

Here again some impressions:

That is were we wrote to you today! See you soon!