• Towards Margaret River

    September 4, 2025 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C

    After checking out of the Hougoumont Hotel on another sunny day, we drove south out of Fremantle, passing the rainbow container arch.
    There was much more traffic on the road south of Fremantle than there had been north of Perth.
    At Busselton, we walked the length of the longest timber-piled jetty in the Southern Hemisphere at 1.841km. Southend Pier is 2.100km long.
    We had our snack lunch at the beautiful Meelup Beach. My lunch included a leamington, popular in Australia and NZ, which comprised a coconut and chocolate covering of sponge. A magpie and a ringneck parrot had their photos taken.
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