Waddi Farm Stay Resort

Okay we had rain again overnight, and we had to pack up today, but it wasn’t too bad as the wind intends to dry out the canvas. Packed up by 8.30am and we thought we’ll try the Pelicans once again at 8.45am as we left the caravan park and yes this time there were 6 Pelicans, so we did see more on this day the kids all threw them some mule, as they call it. Left Kalbarri and headed towards Jurien Bay, but weren’t sure if we were going to stay there or not. We had found in our Camp Australia Book a farm stay and we thought if we go slightly inland it would be something different. We stopped off in Dongarra for lunch and the bakery was open, always lovely to get fresh bread for lunch and of course around the corner is a park, how perfect was that. On the road again, and we had another idea, lets go to Jurien Bay and check it out and then drive to the farm stay which was not that far anyway, so we popped into to Jurien Bay only to see skydivers land almost on top of us on the beach. However the smell of the beach was enough to put us off. We just couldn’t stand the smell and we think it was the seaweed or algae on the seaweed. Thankfully we are not staying there tonight, we all thought. We missed the turnoff to ‘Waddi Farm Resort’, and drove 30km south and didn’t realized we had missed it, we turned around and came back until we finally found it. A 5 km dirt track into the farm, and there is only a couple there and a backpacker, and we could set up anywhere. This place used to be the biggest population of Emus in Australia. The wildflowers here are just amazing, and the colors too, pinks purples, even blue flowers and they are all wild. We set up but not fully and left the car attached as we would head off the next day to the ‘Big Smoke, Perth”. The kids went for a walk and found a barn and they looked through the window to see there was a pool table, foose ball table and Air hockey, but couldn’t get in and came back and got Mark.’ Dad can you take us to the games room, please”, so he did, They didn’t come back for awhile and when they did, it was funny really but it was locked up so Mark made Dylan climb through the window and open it up from inside. Well Dylan was so highly stressed as he thinks his broken into the games room. I had said when they returned; well by the sounds of things you did break it. Mark and Oli didn’t care but Dylan was so worried. The owner was half cut, when we arrived as we could smell the alcohol and cigarette smell on him, and even Dylan noticed. He charged us $30 for the night and when typing in the amount on the credit card he put $300, so there was the first sign he was pickled. The boys enjoyed the games room anyway, after Dylan got over his break-in. Bed early as it was the first night I felt really cold, as the sky was so clear, no clouds. I actually had to get out the heated blanket, which I first talked about at the beginning of the blog, and slept with that to kept slightly warm. Silence at night and we could only hear the odd cow.