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20/4/2018
By Jonathon
At Wave Rock we did some hiking and surfing (on the rock). The rock is shaped like a wave. We climbed to the top and the views were spectacular, it felt like we were on top of the world.
We ate sausages, potatoes and salad for dinner and last night we ate fish. The Wave Rock campsite has a pool which is unfortunately like the Arctic so we couldn’t swim in it.
In the car we listened to a new podcast called ‘Wow in the world’ and we all enjoyed it. It’s about 2 people who tell you interesting facts but it sounds like a story, like a dog uses its sense of smell to tell the time and can detect cancer.
21/4/2018
Wave Rock was a 7 hour detour that Elizabeth and Jonathon were keen to see despite the extra travel time, and we are all so glad that we made the effort. Hyden was a great little town, very proud of it’s ‘Wave’, with odd shops like the World’s largest lace collection and the Toy Soldier Museum. The highlight though was the Wave, and the associated walk around and over it, incorporating a ‘field’ of rock cairns and other rock structures. There were so many flies that we bought fly nets for our hats and already they have been super useful.
For most of the journey we listened to Harry Potter on Audiobook, we saw emus on the side of the road and had to stop when a screw bounced off the jerry can on the roof – a timely reminder to check and tighten all screws regularly. The roads generally have been excellent and although we have seen plenty of road trains, they haven’t been an issue at all, we are hoping this continues.
The last 2 nights we stayed at Mt Trio Bush Camp and did a few walks in both Stirling Ranges National Park and also Porongurup NP, which are about 50kms apart. The weather has been a bit ordinary, in fact we had a thunderstorm and hail on the first night. Stirling Ranges has the tallest mountain in WA, Bluff Knoll, and it was sooo windy, we thought there must of been a waterfall near the top but it was just the wind. It was a fairly tough walk. Porongurup NP was much more lush with tall karri trees and the Castle Hill skywalk was so cool, we had to scramble over boulders to get to a 7 metre high ladder so we could access the skywalk that has been bolted into the boulders. The views were amazing.
Lunch at a local winery was a treat and then it was an easy drive into Albany for Anzac Day.
25/4
Albany was a very pretty city, the location on King George Sound, Shoal Bay and Frenchman Bay is really picturesque and would of been a beautiful and heart wrenching final view for the 40000 servicemen and women who left here bound for WW1, of whom 1/3 didn't return. We visited the Anzac National Centre which was interactive enough to keep everyone interested for over an hour, and then a rainy Dawn Service this morning followed by a typically Aussie RSL BBQ.