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. ?
Nice to be on the road again, stopping at Meckering, a town that had been destroyed by an earthquake in 1968.
It’s now a nice tidy town with a free camp in the centre, there is a beautiful memorial rose garden, which attracts the birds and tourists. 
Next day we stopped off for a wander around York, as it was new years eve, we couldn’t spend as much time as we would have liked there, so intend to call back in on our way back up to Kalannie in a few weeks.
On the road again, and not far out of Perth we check into a park owned by the seventh day adventist church at Maida Vale, we needed somewhere secure to leave the van while we have a week in perth. Off to the fireworks on the Swan River to celebrate the start of 2019. Hopefully it will be a good one, and lots more adventures.
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