West Oz – Pt IV: Margaret’s & Yallingup

The last part of our adventure. After an uneventful drive from Esperance to Albany and an overnight stay (apart from the speeding ticket I have decided I like Albany a lot). We headed north toward Margaret River and Yallingup – renowned wine territory and in size at least much more like the coastal holiday destinations we have been in Australia before.

Many more towns to pass through on this part of the drive, a great coastal stop in Denmark (again, amazing coastline and beach) but the memorable part of this day was the short cut we took that resulted in 40kms of backcountry unsealed roads with a logging truck on our tail and grave doubts in our mind the whole way that we would get to the end of the road and it would be a dead end – it wasn’t a dead end, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger and we arrived at where we were staying and it was one of the coolest places I have stayed at – check out the link (Smiths Beach) and look at the “gallery” section.

Each of the days that we were here we visited a few wineries in the morning (and brought a case each day – some awesome shiraz and cab savs from this area), spent the afternoon at the beach and the pool where we were staying had a quick visit to the local providore followed by Kelly making an awesome dinner and enjoying a bottle of the wine we had brought that day. The drives between wineries were fun with fields of what from a distance look like sheep but turned out to be kangaroos and another being deer (a venison farm).



We had a few days in Perth to end the holiday, we explored around a bit more and found some neighbourhoods that we really liked, went to the beach, Luca went to Zoo with Em and Corey, we celebrated Emmy’s 11th birthday and finally we were ready to go home.