Planet Ruby Starrs

I just want to say loving all the comments.. we read them all even if they aint acknowledged...  as I'm posting from my phone I cant see if people are reading anything I write or not 🤣🤣 doesn't matter... but its always nice to hear back.   This is Dr Fred under a huge Morton Bay Fig tree.. huge butress roots- beautiful trees. We've finally met up with friends in Kalbarri and the eclipse is looming... more adventures to come ....

Hanging out in Geraldton which appears to be quite a nice place. Much bigger than anywhere we have been (other than Perth).   However its Easter Sunday and most places are shut except... the art gallery.  We have just enjoyed a really wonderful installation/ art work called  ' The Peregrinations of a Citizen Botanist' by Susie Vickery.  To be honest the title nearly put me off but I'm a sucker for galleries so we thought we would have a gander. Susie Vickery is an extremely talented and clever textile artist. Using embroidery and natural dye techniques to produce stunning artworks which in this case tell the story of the 18th century french chap Jaques-Julien Houton de Labillardiére  who came Australia in 1792 on a ship as a Botanist.   This is still potentially a bit off putting until you see the work... Beautifully curated and intregrated automatated textile 'tableaux' (for want of a word) telling the story from a very different perspective.. ie...

We have had quite a few exciting days not exciting as in wild or reckless adventures but we have found some very nice places to camp.  We came across Lake Indoon as a recommendation from The Visitor Centre.  I cannot praise visitor centres and libraries enough - they are the backbone of every small town we have visited.  The chap at the visitor centre said Lake Indoon is quite pleasant and he was not fibbing..  it was extremley pleasant... only one other camper... masses of space, trees, bushes a lot of evidence of kangas, (although we didn't actually see any), a few scattered Emus and an Osprey hovering directly above us at one point almost close enough to touch. It was a peaceful place the odd rattle of the wind turbine adding a slightly spooky atmoshpere once the sun went down.  We sat out quite late drinking wine, echidna spotting but the echidnas continue to be elusive... still a very magical place. (All this for approx £5.36 per ni...

We are exploring the coast north of Perth now.  We stopped a couple of nights at Cervantes - a small sleepy development with a huge holiday camp...  to be honest all the coast is a bit like that... lots of small sleepy developments most of which have some older more ramshackle buildings but they are surrounded by completely new buildings that look or feel like second or holiday homes...  We went to the shop in Cervantes for an ice cream and we walked through the small town.. we didn't meet a single soul and yet the holiday camp was absolutely packed to the gills! We would have prefered to be on a smaller less commercial camp but they are less common around here and consquently full...  this was ok and we had a nice spot almost on the beach ...  Using the holiday park as the base we went to the Namberg  National park to look at the Pinnacles. It was a glowering sky promising more torrentail rain (we had serious rain the previous day)  ...

We had a great weekend at Margaret River staying with some friends in their house.  ....Dr Fred went climbing 2 days running - Wilyabrup (pictured... Dr Fred halfway up..his climbing partner on the top) and Cosy Corner and now he's totally knackered but he did have a really good time.   We had a little wander around Margaret River.  It's a small bustling town with quite a lot of nice shops and a couple of interesting galleries plus some interesting street art. There was actually one painting in the gallery I would loved to have bought but I don't think we could have carried it home...(or justified cost). I nearly bought a load of tat for the girls but decided that tat could be bought anyway so I would wait.  There were some nice coffee shops and a very beautiful tree - see photo it looked like a conifer with dreadlocks...  On Sunday we went for a walk at a  coastal cove called Cosy Corner.  After brewing up on ...

Second post today... the rock posts are just interludes.. FINALLY!!!  More kangaroos.... there loads more but it was too dark to photograph them.... We camped in a site at Windy Harbour and it sure was aptly named... serious gales confined us to quarters.. we did a short walk on the beach but I had a dreadful headache so Dr Fred went off to explore the headland on his own... the rock here was very different to the granite we had become used to. It was more fossilised sand dunes quite crumbly and eroded into fantastic shapes and patterns.  As a campsite Windy Harbour did the job but it wasnt the best.. but for one night it was ok.. in the morning we got up and the weather was loads calmer and there were no kangaroos to be seen!!!  We drove to the headland where Fred had walked the day before - the rocks were pretty amazing .. there had obviously been a huge cave made out of the fossilized rock which was everywhere and it had partially collapsed making a huge wi...

Here are more rocks from Dr Freds perspective... scroll on for glorious granite ....  ( when taken with the proper camera they are too large to load on this computer so I have to resize them which may affect quality). Bluff knoll from various angles.... Shelly Beach bouldering around the headland Peak Head Granite Cliff Stoney Hill Albany Headland... Tower Hill Near Denmark....