Gracetown (exploring more sights)

After the best nights sleep in about 3 days we awoke to birds chirping and even a kookaburra laughing just lovely. We let Dylan sleep in as he looked like he was in a deep sleep. We all ahd breakie and showers and Dylan was still asleep, wow we thought he must need it. Or I was thinking he’s growing as we speak. Finally Mark woke him at 9.40am, now that’s affair sleep.Thats like 11.30am back at home, we said to Dylan, What are you going to do when its camp 2 days after we get back,everyone on camp will be waking you up. Miles you can have this job, just give him a short shove to wake him.We finally got going around 10.30am and bit lazy this morning and drove down to Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse about a 40min trip.Cape Leeuwin lighthouse is on the extreme south west point of Australia and is the biggest lighthouse on the Australian Mainland. We didn’t climb it just did the walks around and the lookouts as well as seeing where the Indian Ocean meets the Southern Ocean. Of course a photo for this was in order around the sign post. By the time we finished here we drove to Flinders Bay for some lunch,we always carry our lunch in the back of the car so we can stop anywhere. A lovely little park and it was sunny so of course,its lets sit in the warmth.

We then started to head back and dropped into ‘Jewel Cave’ and decided to do a tour here. This was fantastic and well worth it, seeing all the stellegnites hanging like crystals from the roof and some were metre and metre long. Our tour guide had said that they grow 1cm a year so therefore what we were looking at were thousands of years old. The cave was well lit up and had steps, actually 250 steps down into it to be precise, and of course another 250 to climb out again, our tour guide had said there’s no elevater out of here. Some areas looked liked coral on the cave and ere lit up with different colours made to look like you were under water,just beautiful. It was interesting that the cave had tree roots all the way through the ground to the cave and almost to the ground level of the cave inside. We could see the roots of the Karri trees and peppermint trees. Lily wasn’t sure of this at the beginning but by the end of the 1 hour tour she was off up the front of the line of people climbing the steps back out of the cave with no help and no complaining(Yeah).

We left the caves and went for a drive to Boranup lookout and through the forest of Karri Trees. They are just so tall and beautiful as you drive through the forest. Karri Trees are really straight trees and basically all look similar but even better when there is a forest of many . We planned on going to the Millars Icecream farm shop for the kids but it was closing in around half an hour and we wouldn’t make it in time.Lucky for us we hadn’t told Lily or it would have been screaming for sure. We did however have enough time to go to a winery caller the Voyager Estate, and were recommended to go there. The gardens and the vineyard was immaculate and had the 2^nd largest Australian Flag in the southern hemisphere flying high. We had a photo taken next to it, being soliders saluting our country.

Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse

Where the Southern Ocean and the Indian Ocean meet

Boys looking at the two oceans meeting

Inside the Jewel Cave

Back for dinner and cooking in the camp kitchen once again.We have been to many camp kitchens in the past 10 weeks and we have voted this one No.1 so far. It has everything. There was another fire and we toasted marshmallows once again. Uno was on again tonight and now the results  are so far leading is Oliver on 1098,Mark 1020,984 is Dylan, the fabulous Hayley on 809 and little miss Lily on 603. We will have more  games the following evening.