As we headed out of Advent Park at Maida Vale the next day, I took a couple of photos of the black cockatoos, they just love the avenue of pine trees here. 
They pick the fresh pine cones from the trees and rip them to bits, 
they have a real feeding frenzy on them. Mundaring was our first stop.
This little, up in the hills, timber town, has the best kids park I have ever seen, sculptures set in natural bushland. 
Sandpits with working implements and animal sculptures to sit on 
Bike tracks all through the area and even a post with bike repair tools hanging on it. 
Lots of unusual sculptured seating
and an awesome twin flying fox. 
Being a kid at heart I had to take photos of this fun place. 
Too many to show them all, but you’ll get the idea. Another interesting little town, and not all that far from Perth .We had some lunch and headed out again.
Our next stop, was York. We booked into the caravan park there, as we wanted to stay a few days. We liked the town, when we called in on our way down south, and decided it was as good as anywhere to spend Australia Day and Chris’s birthday the following day. The caravan park had 3 or 4 other vans in, when we arrived. A lovely bush setting. The amenities block was a bit old, but clean. We set up and went for a look around town. 
Not sure what these sculptures in the park are about, but I still took a photo. Then for a look through the grand old town hall. Beautiful building.! 
From upstairs you can view other old buildings. Across the road there is one of the many old pubs in town. York is the oldest town in WA, and so full of wondeful old buildings. Next it was a view of the town from up at the lookout. 
The following day we had breakfast in the park and celebrated Australia Day with the rest of the towns folk.
A nice day for everyone, especially the little ones, who happily chased bubbles in the air.
in the afternoon we just sat around and relaxed with the chooks, and birds .
The following day was Chris’s birthday. I managed to make him a very unspectacular cake the evening before, I didn’t have any candles, so made do with smarties. 
That evening we went out to the Settlers for dinner. 
It’s an original old pub that is now a beautifully restored restaurant and accommodation place. 
Made the right choice as the meals were good and the live band was great. So long since we’d had such a good night out.! Even played our wedding song and we had a dance. As well as that chris was made feel special as the owner and staff presented him with a dessert cake, topped with a sparkler. 
And of cause everyone sang happy birthday to him. 
It was a lovely night, made more so by the great staff. 
As it was a long weekend we ended up staying in York for the monday as well.
It’s a popular town for tourists, and we certainly enjoyed our stay. We left the park on tuesday about lunch time, only stopping in Northam to do a grocery shop, before getting back to Kalannie that afternoon. So holiday over it’s back to work for Chris, carting fertilizer from Jurien Bay back to the farms. Not sure whether there will be anything interesting for me to put on blog for a while. But you never know whats ahead, eh. ?
and the following morning had a walk around the beachfront,
before hooking up the van and going for one final drive around Albany. I wanted to take a photo of the Painted silos in town, before we left the area. 
Different to say the least, but nonetheless, still a tourist attraction. So many silos are being painted around the country now, bringing travellers into their area. From here we travelled the short distance to Cosy Corner East. 
However we didn’t stay there. Just took a couple of photos and left to find another spot further along the coast at Torbay, as we hadn’t been in there before. turned out to be a great bush camp. There were a few other campers there, but mainly overnight backpackers, no caravans, as its quite sandy and not a very big area, so most caravaners wouldn’t go in there. 
The beach is accessed by a sandy track, there is also a inlet nearby that is good for both swimming and fishing, lots of bream being caught at the time.
Chris had a hearing appointment for the 23rd, so we could only stay for a couple of nights, but we had a nice couple of lazy days on the beach. 
Although we bush camp alot we still eat well, and I like to cook in webber when we aren’t travelling each day. Cooked a nice piece of pork, while staying here. Chris did his usual taste test, as you can see. 
The night before Chris’s appointment, we stayed closer to Perth at Logue Dam in the National park, was almost dark when we arrived.
Seems to be a very popular are for boaties from Perth. However we were out of there early the next day and into Myaree to drop the caravan off at Graeme McMullens’ workshop. He did some work for us, while we had another day in Fremantle. Rather cool and windy day. but all went well with Chris’s hearing. After picking up the van that afternoon we had another night at Advent Park, just out of Perth. Not long before we will be back at Kalannie, and Chris back at work, after having nearly a month of travelling.
Well worth the stop. 
After we came out of the caves we did a bush walk back to the car park, so had some exercise for the day.
After that we called into Hamelin Bay, had a walk around and a bite to eat. 
It’s my kind of beach, crystal clear, calm water. Next it was a stop at Cape Leeuwin, and a walk up to the lighthouse. 
Cute cow eh,?! On the pathway.
These walkways weren’t built last time we were here in 2007.
So much has changed, a lot of remote areas are now quite developed, to bring in the tourist dollars.
The photo above shows the area that we camped in back in 2007. Now due to change, caravans have to park in a marked out area up the road
quite good, private spots, with toilets not far away, but further from the beach. Cosy Corner is a very popular place, on the south west coast, and one of Chris and my favourite in Australia.
Beautiful beach surrounded by natural bushland.
On one of my walks, I came across a flowering gum in full bloom as well as lots of other shrubs, just love staying here.
Couldn’t have asked for better weather while we stayed there. I think we have only had 5ml of rain since we left home nearly 12 months ago.
After setting up on our site, we drove into town and meet our friends. Had a lovely afternoon driving around all the points of interest, and catching up on our adventures over the last 4 and a half years. They have sold their house and travel permanently.
It seemed to take forever for the sun to go down, to do our light walk.
Finally about 8.30 we entered the memorial park, and the whole experience was very moving as well as beautiful.
A wonderful tribute to our WW1 veterans. As you walked through the field their stories were told through an app on our phone. The lights also changed colour as the story was told. So well done, and great that we made the trip to experience it. We spent a couple of hours there before saying farewell to our friends. I’m sure we’ll meet somewhere again on our travels.
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