Fri, 8th Dec, 2017 Bob & Margaret’s, near Mandurah to Silver Sands Resort, Mandurah, WA

7.30am 19.6 degrees, clear sky and cool breeze.

Had breakfast – Kaylene was impressed with my fresh scrambled eggs, straight from the chooks here, for breakfast.

Headed along the path to the Cut to find some dolphins. She loved the beach and luckily the weather is just perfect today.

Unfortunately we only saw a couple of dolphins in the distance but she was impressed with that as she hadn’t seen dolphins in the ocean before. A lady had warned us she saw a metre long snake but we only saw a couple of bob-tailed skinks.

Back home – Margaret’s lovely front garden looks so peaceful.

Had morning tea with Bob and Margaret and chatted till lunchtime. After lunch Kaylene and I headed into town. I detoured after crossing over the Cut Bridge to check out one of the older canal housing areas – built in the Tuscan style. Then we headed to the beach and found a car park with a view over Avalon Beach. As we were admiring the view I spotted dolphins racing along the edge of the rocky reef off shore. They were zooming then after a few jumps and rolls settled into the rhythmic up and down as they continued northwards. Kaylene was very impressed. You can see them if you zoom in on the second photo.

Zoomed in and managed to get one shot with a dolphin in it.

Continued along the beach to Falcon Beach – no more dolphin sightings. Then we headed to the Spud Shed to get some vegies and fruit – I wanted some more yummy mangoes. They didn’t have any big ones left that I got for 99c but there were smaller ones for 3 for $2 that looked the same, that is like a Bowen Mango. We got some meat from there too as their prices are so much cheaper than Woolies and Coles.

On the way home we went into a newer canal area on the inlet side – much nicer homes in here.

Loaded up the truck with bags and food etc and headed off for our holiday week. We have a ground floor 2 bedroom unit which is very roomy and has a full kitchen.

I went back to pick up Steve and the last of our stuff – bit of a process moving house!! Shane and Doreen came over for drinks and to catch up with Kaylene.

That lead to a BBQ by the pool but as the pool and spa closed at 8pm we will have check that out tomorrow. Very nice – we think we will enjoy this ‘luxury’ for a week. Thanks Kaylene and Rick – only sad bit is that Rick couldn’t join us. Hopefully we can take him detecting next year when his back is all better again.