Australia 2016 - Back to Fremantle

On Monday we had another leisurely day in Margaret River, not doing much but reading our books and enjoying it all. We did go into town to check about the book. The owner had forgotten about it, but promised to bring it in Tuesday morning. So we put that on our schedule when we headed out on Tuesday.

Tuesday was about cleaning up the house and getting packed up to return to Fremantle. When we left, we went back to the bookshop. The owner had indeed brought the book, but it wasn’t the one we had read. (We had hoped to find The Voyage of Catalpa to give to Powelsons.) But the one he brought was the transcript of the proceedings that followed the prison escape - right up Larry’s alley for interest! And the owner gave it us for free. All in all a successful transaction and we learned more of the history of this part of the world.

On our way out we stopped at Providore, a lovely place to purchase Margaret River provisions. We purchased some. Then we stopped at a nut and cereal farm store and bought some of their own grown macadamia nuts.  Our last stop in Margaret River was the Margaret River Dairy. We bought some cheese and delicious Passion Fruit yogurt - my current favorite breakfast item!

We stopped further up the way in Bunbury and their fairly new farmers’ market. It was more like a Whole Foods, but there was a lot of local produce. We were astonished by the size of the lettuces, cabbages, leeks, and celery. Humongous! We had a bite to eat for lunch from their deli and then made our way back to Fremantle.

Our first task back at the flat was to do laundry. No dryers here - everything is hung up on the line. Things dry very quickly in this hot, dry climate. Dinner was back at chez Powelson with local Asian food.