The skate park in Margaret River....

I think he would have stayed there all day....

Sunset on our way home....the whole sky was coloured in gold and pink....

....the gorgeous sunset made the drive so much more enjoyable.

 

Early morning puzzles...good pals...

Flynn loves his racing cars...

Margaret River children's playground ...it has this lovely old train that the boys like to  visit...

...and the playground is next to the Margaret River....

...good climbers....

Cowaramup Primary School....I thought their motto was excellent.

 

After walking Ethan and Will to school, Flynn and I stood and watched  these 28s having a bath...

Flynn enjoyed climbing on every cow we passed on our walk to the park.....Cowaramup is known as Cow Town.

Mum's home, after work.....

What a smile!

 

Morning walk to Smith's Beach...

So spectacular...

Not so spectacular...

Mandy on the beach....sensational sky...

Mandy and Peter on the beach....

I walked up the beach to look at the rocks...

....and I spotted a Southwestern Carpet Python all curled up asleep between the rocks.

Beautiful waves...

We saw a pod of dolphins catching the waves....

Hopefully we will be back again soon.

Arrived in Cowaramup in the late afternoon.... so happy to see the Stokes family...

 

Rain!!!! Pete and I couldn't remember when we last saw rain....

...not really good weather for our road trip to Dunsborough...but so nice for a change...

After our arrival in Dunsborough and a brief hello to Mandy and Graeme, Pete and I set off for a swim. So happy that it  wasn't raining down in the south. Before a swim we went for a peak at the ocean...this is looking north from Sugarloaf Rock. I just love this coastline.

Beautiful Point Picquet...the sun came out... great swim.

Getting ready for the party tonight....Margot, Mandy and me...all three of us in blue and white.

Pete, Hugh, Graeme and Jeff...a serious discussion I think.

Me, Laura, Mandy, Tash and Margot.....it was a fabulous night!

 

What to do on a hot day in Perth....

After spending the last two days in our cool air-conditioned house while the temperature outside rose above 40 degrees, I suggested to Pete that we visit the new Western Australian Museum....Boola Bardup.

We have been wanting to visit the museum since the completion of the new building and renovations to the old building (in 2020). It was awesome...a marvellous building and I'm so pleased they built it around the old building...

The number of amazing exhibits are overwhelming....we didn't come close to seeing everything...this is a camel skeleton. I didn't know that the largest population of camels in the wild, estimated as more than 1 million individuals as of 2023, is found in neither Arabia or Mongolia but instead in the Australian desert. 

A history lesson...in a film clip on these blocks...

So many stunning spaces...

Another film clip ...

I'd say I enjoyed the Wildlife section the most...

Every museum has a model dinosaur ... this one is of a Titanosauriform sauropod.

The old and the new...

This was exceptional...a wonderful art exhibition....of  paintings by Shane Pickett, a painter  of the Nyoongar lands.

 

City Beach this morning....large crowd of ocean swimmers...several competitions happening...

Happy Birthday Marjolijn...only on special occasions do we enjoy a coffee after our swim...

Good friends !