** MARGARET RIVER **

First stop was at Cowerup to collect a map of the area. Had a look around the CANDY COW lolly shop, then next door there was a providore shop where we purchased some chilli Dukkah to have with bread dipped in olive oil.

Then on to XANADU Winery for some tastings. Very impressed with the place, beautiful gardens and buildings, and the wines were gorgeous. We bought three bottles of red there.

Next it was the through the Margaret River town and onto the WATERSHED winery for more tastings.

From there it was on to LEEWIN ESTATE Winery. This winery is set back in a few kilometers off the road, the grounds were superb and they set up a sound shell for music in the vineyards there, we sat at a table under the tree's and had our lunch (we had salmon and cheese rolls that we had made at home before left this morning). More wine tasting but we didn't purchase anything there.

Then we went to the heads of Margaret River at Prevally Beach and watched the surfies for a while. There was heaps of people surfing as there was quite a swell happening. Next stop was HOWARD PARK Wines. From there we went to EVANS & TATE winery. The Cab Sav there was very nice and we treated ourselves to a bottle.

Then it was on to SANDALFORD Wines. Their wines were very nice and if you bought six bottles of their Emerge label, you could get them for $10 each.
We also stopped at a new winery - McHENRYS FARM DOOR - They have a cafe there and also sell their farm meat. We were impressed with their 3 Amigo's Shiraz Grenache Mataro Blend, which we were able to buy a bottle of for $10.

We were driving along and saw a sign saying "SURF ART" Trish has always had an interest in painting beach scenes so we drove up the driveway to have a look. There were horses in the yard and a sign saying that it was a retirement home for old horse and hippies. When we pulled up at the door it looked like a junkyard and there was a sign saying "Deslie paints on anything" - she sure does, her whole house and yard are 'works of art'. Her elderly father was sitting outside reading and asked us where we were from,, when we said Tassie, he said that he worked at Tarraleah in the 1950's.

Deslie does literally paint on anything, thongs, ice-cream tub lids, canvas, old real estate signs, you name it, she never locks her place up, she said one day she came home and someone had taken one of her books and left the money on the doorstep, the books were not even for sale. I told her I would send her another copy of Papillon to replace the one she has lost.

We finally got away from the 'Surf Art' people and set off in search of Simmo's Icecreamery where we tried the Mars, Macadamia Mocha, Butterscotch and Hazelnut Icecream.

Then it was back to Bussellton in time to watch the sunset over the Jetty. The jetty is 2km long but at the moment it is undergoing a redevelopment and most of it is closed.
more photos will be added when we get back to Tasmania, uploading photos uses up our megabyte allowance too quickly with our mobile broadband while we are travelling :-)