Margaret River

This was my first weekend of my holidays, and so me and 4 friends (Maria, Anna, Gorill and Elodie) went on a Roadtrip to Margaret River. It was good to get away since my last week has been very busy and most people have left or left this weekend. So it would have been very sad to stay in Perth anyway ;) This is a picture of my flat's last night together.

Margaret River is a small town about 400 km south of Perth. It is known for its beautiful landscapes (very green, and great beaches) and especially for its wineries and some other food factories. We left early on Saturday morning and started off with visitin the cave NGILGI in Bunsbury. The cave was found in 1899 and is 45 m deep. It was a really amazing cave, full with huge Stalagmites and Stalagtites. It is amazing how many there were and how old they were, considering that a Stalagmite or Stalagtite grows about 1cm in a 100 years.

After the cave we went to an Olive Oil factory, where we tasted some olive oil and bruschetta and had some coffee. It was so nice sitting on a terrace, drinking coffee and having a great view: on the one side the ocean, on the other side fields with lots of kangaroos. I've never seen that many kangaroos before, maybe just once at a Wildlife park, but this was completely different since the kangaroos were in the wild. The one kangaroo had a baby in her pouch.

We then went to our hostel in Margaret River. In the evening we went out to eat, since it was Maria's birthday. Afterwards we went to the local tavern, which was supposed to be "the place to be". For us it was more "the place not to be" because there was just one weird guy after the other, but it was defenitely an interesting experience....

On the next day we basically just went from one wine or food factory to the other and tasted us through their products.... we started off in a Fudge Factory, went to a nuts& cereals factory, chocolate factory, cheese factory and a bunch of wineries....So as you can see it was a very tasteful day....

Now I am back in my empty flat...It's weird not to have everyone else around, it's so quiet now.

It's just 2 more days in Perth and I'm starting to realize how much I still want or have to do... But my trip on the east coast is coming closer and I'm starting to be excited about it.