Margaret River - Prevelly

Morning of schoolwork. Mammoth cave is full of fossil bones of megafauna that washed into it. A jaw bone from a giant wombat was fossilised into the wall. There was an audio tour (sounnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!).

Had 4 course lunch at Voyager estate, boys had 3 courses kids deal. Pretty damn nice(& fancy).

Tasted some wine, bought two boxes of wine, way too expensive(but it was 2 boxes). Kids got a 6 pack of fancy grape juice. It was fancy/extra fancy/way too fancy (fancyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...). o and it ain't Bunsbury it Bumsbury.

Back at Prevelly, we walked to the nearby beach and caught the sunset.

Pretty Prevelly.

Prevelly sunset.

12th Nov - pretty slow on the schoolwork boys, dammit! I was trying to blog, and Marie was getting pretty annoyed at the slow progress. We gave up at around 11.30, then headed to Cowaramup via Ellensbrook at Mokidup. Ellensbrook was where a water stream got to the sea. There is a historic homestead. It was owned by the Bussell family, I guess of Busselton fame. Their daughter looked after local Aboriginal people there, now it is just a museum run by National Parks. There is a waterfall there normally, but I guess things are currently dry.

Lunch at Cowaramup. The whole town has gone Cow mad (Cowaramup, get it??), with cow statues everywhere, and toy fluffy cows etc for sale. The local Black Sheep cafe is really good.

Finished with wine tasting at Stella Bella wines. The lady helping us was from Ireland, and lovely. She's moved here, married an Aussie, and having a baby in April. We bought 2 boxes.

Back at the camp, at Louis's insistance, we had to make friends to get people to play Ultimate Werewolf. I found two Frenchies, Simon and Claire, who were good enough sports to put their dinner on hold for three rounds of it. Louis and Ollie both had a good laugh, seems like a hit. Louis was the werewolf two times! Claire once. The werewolves won twice.

On the way out, we stopped at the Greek Orthodox church. The view from up there is over the beach.

The guy who owned the whole estate was a ww2 combatant in Crete, who then was  then protected and looked after by the monks at Prevelly. So when he came back he built this as a thank you. He got an award for his services to the Greek community.

13th went to Lakes cakes with the slowly shrinking water body and the suspended table. It used to be the floor, for centuries clearly, as the rock formation is extensive. The combined weight of the two columns is estimated at 5.5t. The roof is thick with straws. 

The rain patterns are changing. It used to fall heavily, which would penetrate into the cave. Now it rains lightly, so it is absorbed by the land above. There are 12 species of endangered micro krill down here, which are endangered by the caves drying up around here.