Stirling Range National Park

Found a cracking camp right on the edge of the Stirling Range National Park...

spacious.. picnic table ( about time... so regret being bolshy about camp table with hire company 🤣🤣) helpful staff, gas refill, superb camp kitchen, hot shower, wildlife, amazing sunsets and a fabulous pool!!!! Its a good mix of a bush camp and a camping park.. I feel like in in Australia not Bridlngton... although the mozzies in Brid might be less vicious...

Sunset...

We were up at the crack of sparrows.... up on Bluff Knoll carpark at 5.45 am... still no sign of wildlife... but the day was promising to be another 33 plus so an early start was the only way to beat the heat. Some people were already up on the top for the sunrise.. which if i'm honest was quite underwhelming... but really thats relative given we were stood almost at the highest point in WA ... I'm not going to complain.

Sunrise...

Dr Fred set off ...after his morning cuppa...

this was not a walk for me for various reasons so I had another scan across the horizon - stunning- but still fairly quiet and I went back to bed for an hour. The car park got busy..mainly young people dressed fairly inappropiatley... says me still in my nightie 🤣🤣🤣.

I got dressed and went and sat on the lookout did some sketching, reading... looking for echidnas.. and right on time.. just as I thought time for tea... Dr Fred reappeared looking very hot and sweaty.. but feeling amost good...excluding knees... and ankle...

Bluff knoll

The hike was worth the effort though - the views from the top were amazing..he was the only person up there and the rock was better than he expected..... as always these photos are on the camera and require other techology to make way onto the blog...We are expecting to be back in civilisation tomorrow..I'll find better internet and I intend to post extensive rock pictures and far reaching views..

Our camp view...

We were back in camp for 11.00 and spent the rest of the day at the camp chilling, listening to tunes, stalking the monitor lizards and swimming the pool- practically like normal holiday people....

Scotland part 2

The second half of the week continued in much the same vein. We had one rainy afternoon which was actually quite nice to be holed up in the house with the rain lashing the windows. It probably wasn't quite so nice for the two visitors that came on their bikes but they're tough cookies - and its only water- but I did feel sorry for them having to cycle six miles back down the track in the wind and rain, but given Scotland, it wasn't as bad as it could be.

Funchal

So after three days at sea we finally hit Funchal in Madeira. An escape from the ship, and I have to say it was very pleasant indeed. First of all the weather is really splendid. Especially when you know that everybody else in the UK is suffering grim storms and vile winds.. Over here it is between 22 and 25 degrees is really quite warm. Funchal is a pretty city. It's built on a hill it with lots of lovely white houses with stunning red roofs. In order to get the best of it we walked along the sea front until we got to the cable car and we took it up the hill. It was a really good ride much longer than we imagined and it's quite weird because it goes right through the town - completely over everybody's house... So not only do you get a lovely vista of the bay but you can view the beautiful rooftops and get to look in everybody's gardens and to look at their picnic sets.. clean washing nice plants... scratty backyards.... We got off th

ROCKS - in which I share the Hopetoun and Esperance pictures....

I'm about to post a load of pictures of rocks... look away if you are not interested...There are more but its faffy making them smaller to upload so I'm doing it a bit at a time... Enjoy mount Barren rocks on summit Mount Barren Views... Cave Point - unreachable cave Small reachable Cave scree to unreachable cave Frenchmans Peak Cave Frenchmans peak View Frenchmans Peak Summit Esperance Headland Boulders Esperance Headland with fisherman for scale Eperance other headland cave Esperance other headland...

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