A view weeks we have been on holiday. We went out of Perth for a week without any family obligations or business reasons.
We (Kylie, her mother Dorothey and I) drove 600 km north to Kalbarri. This is a National Park on the coast. In the middle in of the National Park is the village Kalbarri at the river mouth.
It is more a holiday village with a couple of campgrounds and lots of accommodation. Kylie arranged a apartment in the Kalbarri Beach Resort through her work. Cheap and cheerful, but it beats camping for a change.
It was a week of relaxing, nice foot, canoeing, whale watching and drinking wine. Below are a couple of pictures of this week.
On the way to Kalabarri (nearly there, only 61 km to go)
Flowering Banksia
On top of Red Bluff (Hooge Rooie). The Dutch VOC merchants used this red hill on the coast as a navigation beacon on the way to Batavia (Jakarta).
Playing dolphins in the breakwater.
Kylie and her mother on top of the vantage point on the hill behind Kalbarri.
Since the eighties they feed the Pelicans in Kalbarri every day. This one was hanging around after breakfast.
Klyies mother tries to fly my 3.5 square meter training kite. Wasn't so successful unfortunately.
During whale watching we unfortunately only saw one whale. Fortunately this one did not jump on our boat like the one in Florida.
Wild goats in the Murchison River Valley. Goats have been imported by the earlier colonists in Autralia for food. Not all of them were eaten and escaped. (I rather eat kangaroo then goat...)
Natures Window in the middle of Kalbarri National Park.
For Kylies and my birthday we've been to a fancy restaurant. Here the waiter is burning Kylie's mums desert.
Shortly after the holiday Kylie and her mum gotten tattoos. They both have Alan's initials on their wrists.
Back from holiday it was time to empty out the bar; in other words: time to make cocktails!. On the picture Kylie is making coffee Martini's ..... yum oh!
On the way back from Kalbarri we had a quick look at the beach in Geraldton. Usually a good place for a kite surf. Unfortunately this day there was off shore.
On the beach we found this guy. He was doing a test drive and decided to drive straight into the seaweed. Bad idea because you can't know if there are hole or soft spots underneath. He ended up hopelessly bogged. A few snatch straps and bow shackles later he was mobile again.
On top of "Hooge Rooie" searching for whales.
View over Z-bend, part of the Murchison River
Our canoe guide Davo accidentally caught a fish. The fish decided to jump straight into the canoe!
The Murchison river is very low at the moment. It basically exists out of long ponds, connected by little streams.
At the sea shore; different colorful crabs.
"Mushroom Rock"
Sunset over the Indische Oceaan
"Hooge Rooie" (Red Bluf) from sea (a lot redder when the sun is low).
The feeding of the pelicans... of course it attracts a lot of seagulls.