Greens Pool and Elephant Cove

We decided to go back to Greens Pool so the whole family could enjoy this fantastic place. This time we had our picnic on the rocks (I don´t like sand...). After lunch we visited the Elephant Rocks, just a couple a hundred meters from Greens Pool. Amazingly cool rocks, very much alike elephants. Unfortunately we didn't bring the camera today :-(

Greens Pool

In the evening Kalle and Oskar went out running, great way to end the day!

Riding and Greens Pool

Started off with fresh bred from the local bakery, thanks to mum! Pernilla had an early start and prepared packet lunch for the family. Vera and mum had booked a full day horse riding and the rest of us went to Greens Bay, it turned out to be a stunning place with rocks and sand with crystal clear water. The new freesbee made debut today, great fun!

Saggö anyone?

Denmark, almost home!

After a couple of fantastic days in Margaret River we jumped in the car and headed south to Denmark! On our way we stopped at the Valley of the Giants, this refers to the great trees you can find in the forest here.

Red tingle tree

Red tingle trees can be up to 60 m high and 400 years old! After an informative walk through the woods we climbed up to the tree top walk, 40 meters up in the trees. Beautiful scenery!

Relaxing i Margaret RIver

Another relaxing day at our chalet, today we had PE on the schedule!

Basket!

Perfect climate for drying your laundry

Baking day, Winemaking and Cave tour

I love baking! Its easy and so rewarding to smell and eat home made bread. Every morning I try and make bread for breakfast, one thing you cannot make when you are at home. Time is not enough, or the energy…J Klara was looking for something to spill energy on so today we not only made the morning bread, we also set a dough for making cinnamon buns. With cinnamon in our hair we set off to visit Swallows winery, very small winery, only 5 acres, and 3000 bottles per year. Owned by Tim and his wife and he picks and make the wine himself. They have also built a very nice chapel called The flower chapel. The walls are filled with aquarelle paintings of all the wild flowers in Western Australia and Sue painted them.

Flowers in the chapel

Interesting to know more about how to make wine. Swallow focus on Cabernet Merlot and Cabernet Franc. You harvest the wine, put it in a machine and remove the grapes from the stalks. Then you put it in a barrel and add yeast for 1 week or so, stomping and turning it around before you press it and bottle it.

Oskar the winemaker

(or at least something like that). One wine plant can grow and be harvested for approx 50 years.  After watching the pond with green frogs and more paintings, next stop was Jesters flat, home of horses and offering horse trails.

Frogs in the pond

Almost everywhere we go you can see the traces of bushfires. Trees and bushes are black and if you make bushwalks your feet gets black. The last stop of this tour was the Lake Cave, a small but exciting cave. We joined a guided tour down in the dark, interesting!

Down we go

Staying longer in MR just hanging around

We had a lazy day in our chalet, did some shoolwork, jogging, reading books and baking bread, Super!!!

Yummie

Bunker bay

A daytrip up north to Bunker bay was on the agenda today, after a playing around at the beach we visited the the Cape Naturaliste Lighthouse.

Bunker bay

Nice scenery, here like everywhere else you can see the effects of bushfires. We where not alone, millions of flies where our companions during our walk at the cape...

Cape Naturaliste Lighthouse

The trees never give up