All Good Things Must Come To An End

"All good things must come to an end" is what we say after every hike. And this extremely good holiday amongst the tall trees has come to an end.

It rained hard last night and early this morning. We were stuck in our tent till a break in the rain around 7.30am. Pleased to confirm that the tent is water tight, and we stayed dry in the tent. We packed up camp as quickly as we could, and put our breakfast of soggy muesli into Tupperwares to eat later. The rain held till we got into the car when it did a quick dump, but cleared up enough for us to decide on a last short hike. Our last tramp amongst the tall trees, in Boranup Forest. This 6.5km hike was fairyland, as there was an abundance of pink fairy orchids. We spotted a trio of donkey orchids and a couple (2) forest mantis spider orchids.

Plan was to spend a few hours after lunch in Margaret River township, looking at the shops and galleries. After 2 weeks on hikes virtually to ourselves, campsites isolated from other campers, and small quiet towns of Walpole and Pemberton, glitzy Margaret River was a sensory overload too much to bear. We left after 15 minutes and decided to drive straight home.Read more