This is really a test post, first to make sure that we can get onto the web via wireless, second to make sure we can upload posts via blogjet and thirdly that you get notified when a new post is uploaded.

So it’s Sunday morning and we’re sitting outside the van having just returned from breakfast at a restaurant a few ks up the road.

We arrived on Friday after an uneventful 6 hour run down.   The Bushtracker owners group (BOG!) organises these ‘musters’ and early evening is nibbles and drinks (BYO of course) time, a general sort of meeting hour when you can just sit and natter about travelling, places to go, what to do, caravan issues, etc.   So far we have learned quite a lot of good things and have been able to provide some information to others, all very useful and very friendly.

Yesterday, we went on an Eco boat tour across the Nornalup inlet and out to the ocean entrance.   It was a beautiful morning, the water is crystal clear and with blue skies and white sand –  just perfect!   We have brought our boat down here previously; on that occasion the weather was exactly as it was today but it changed very quickly and we had a very wet and bumpy ride back to the jetty!  

Our guide / cook / eco professional, Garry Muirs, is from a local family who were either the first or second family to settle in this area.   He was an absolute mine of information on the flora and fauna but also on local history.   Leonard Tolstoy lived here for a while and had connections with both the Russian and British royal families, it was a fascinating story and we shall track the second edition of the book that is being released.

This is another really beautiful part of the south coast.