Margaret River Region- We are in Gracetown

Our set up in Gracetown

Pack up morning and after such a terrible night, Mark said its 8am, we have 2 hours to get out of here. Great, kids were still asleep; I didn’t feel like even opening my eyes and it was raining and still blowing but not as bad. We got moving and the kids awoke and had a quick breakfast and they went to the T.V room to watch cartoons. It was good we could pack up without the kids there, but it was wet. We didn’t care it was wet, all I wanted was to get out of there, the wind was now really getting to us all, and puts everyone in a bad mood. We got out of the caravan park by 10.30am, so that wasn’t bad, and we headed south, hoping to maybe get out of this terrible weather. No, we went through hail not long after we started and it was cold. Through the heavy rain ahead we could see flashing lights, police or ambulance, and as we passed it was a terrible accident, a caravan completely smashed up and hardly recognizable, a guy was sifting through the remains obviously trying to selvage anything that was left. It looked to be a truck involved also. We could understand why this could happen as Mark had said he could feel the wind howling and I suddenly thought of the Lorimer family when they said their caravan was fish tailing and difficult to control. As it felt like we were back into winter we stopped off at Bunbury and went to the shopping centre. Mark and I wanted the biggest strongest coffee, as we had headaches due to lack of sleep. (Yes I have about 1 coffee a day now). We thought a lovely hot lunch was in order, so it was pies and sausage rolls. Back on the road and it wasn’t far to or destination Margaret River Region. I had spoken to a guy back in Kalbarri and he had said stay at Yallingup, so I rang on the way. No vacancies, only 1 night as it’s the Queens Birthday long weekend here and we wanted about 3 nights. I rang Tauton Farm, a place our friends the Lorimers had been but again she could give us a squeezed in site for 2 nights. We drove and turned left to go check Gracetown Caravan Park, we didn’t ring just turned up. It’s the long weekend and no powered sites. We need power, its freezing and I need my heater and plug in blanket. Ha Ha HA. The lovely lady had said we had no power site and then Mark suggested could we run a lead to get power. Yes this was possible, and we ended up staying here, and it’s a great site close to amenities and a huge camp kitchen… and guess what no wind it had died down and just a little rain. All set up and settled and our dinner in the camp kitchen and there’s a TV and an open fireplace, just beautiful. To it off we are here for Grand Final day and they are having a special day here at the park, a huge screen and free hotdogs, starting at 12.30am. Grand final is on early here as we are 2 hours behind you Melbourne people. Kids are happy there’s a park, blow up jumping pillow and when the people start flowing in for the long weekend I’m sure there will be a lot more kids around. We were the only ones in the camp kitchen at night with the beautiful warm fire. We had a kookaburra visit us while eating and a possum came in a little later. We wanted to watch footy show, but could only stay till 10pm, we were just exhausted.