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9.27.2013

#9 Margaret River-Voyager and Chocolate Factory and Busselton Jetty



After whale watch in Busselton, we headed back to Margaret River to visit wine yard and chocolate factory.

Margaret River is famous as the land of wine making. Xt and I were not really attracted by the wines.Basically, we do not like alcoholic drinks except Jolly Sandy. Yet we felt that we must at least visit one wine yard and taste their wines! How on Earth can we miss this?

Voyager was chosen, mainly because this wine yard has spectacular gardens.


The garden was stunning! All the grape trees had lost their leaves though. All left behind were this blackish dried trunk.We walked around the gardens and happily took some photos as if we had forgotten our main purpose.


I particularly love tree without any leaves. Just have to say it looks so vintage!

Like a children!



Our prime problem here was nobody was there to take a photo for us. Regardless anywhere we went, basically we wouldn't see any crowds. Not like the attractions in other countries, always flooded with tourists.

One thing we enjoyed for the fact that we weren't surrounded by people, was that we could quietly indulged ourselves in the natures. Enjoyed this very low-paced journey.

On the dull side, no one else was there to be our cameraman. >.<

Except on one day they were having the 'City to Surf' events that the whole city was overflowed with people, all wearing tracksuits (mostly with singlet and short pants) in the early morning. Me and xt, in contrast, looked like people from the South Pole. /.\

Ohh, I've dragged too far. Yea, back to the topics.

Say Cheese!

Still, very pretty garden.


With my favourite BALD trees!


LOL.Real fresh Tulips. They looked so beautiful and flawless in which I thought they were fake. Turn out to be REAL.




Orchid lah.

Having some plans?

Those bald branches are grape trees.




Aha, my favourite shot!


Yeay, finally we realized why we are here.we came for wine tasting. Voyager welcomed visitors to taste their wines for free.



You were free to choose three types of wines which you like. We know nothing about wine so we just randomly picked some. I picked two and now I have forgotten their name. LOL.

I think I prefer sparkling grape juice hehe.:D  I had two glasses of sparkling juices and I bought one home. Still, non-alcoholic drink was the choice.

Then we stopped by chocolate factory. They invited visitors to taste their chocolates as well with the choices of dark chocolate, milk chocolate and white chocolate. Xt preferred Milk Choco while I loved dark choco.




Kangaroo's paw. Flower of WA.


Chocolates come with different shapes and sizes.




And I had my Simmo's Icecream here! Mango flavor. One big scoop $4.50.




So I randomly grabbed some chocolates with me back into the car and wrapped them in tissue. The weather was so cold that the chocolate wouldn't melt.That was one thing I like about this icy cold weather. This reminded me my melted chocolate in Langkawi=(.

This time, I could leave them in the car and  pop one into my mouth anytime I like! *Phew, feeling contented.*







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Early in the morning, after saying goodbye to Kim we headed to Busselton Jetty. Another rainy freezing cold morning. Busselton Jetty is the longest jetty in the Southern Hemisphere.

We intended to have a walk on this jetty but after we got out the car, we immediately regret. So freaking cold, and we made our move back into the car :(

And then we realized, weather restricted people.





p/s: Travel bugs poisoned me deeply, now I've no cure but just keep travelling.

9.19.2013

#8 Perth City Attractions


#1 Rank one goes to the King's Park. It is a botanic garden with diverse species of plants. With its outstanding collection of Western Australia flora, it attracted millions of visitors each year. Of course, we were one of them.

King's Park was not an ordinary botanic garden. Despite its big area with 300+ plant species , it has became a recreation spot, for pleasant walk, jogging, picnic and barbeque.


Bizarre candle-look-like plants.








Due to the fact that it was still winter, only some of the plants blossom. We were still in luck to see some early blossom spring flowers. The flowers would definitely give this park a spectacular view in the spring!!

What's got our attention is the Boab tree.A tree that is 750 years old which weighted 36 tonnes. Imagine how huge is it?! It was transferred all the way from Warmun (I have no idea about the place), but it was indeed a long journey (3000km) to Perth. It was then placed in King's Park. They took one week to transfer the tree.

Bad news is the tree tissues was damaged during its way to King's Park. So the Park's botanist is still trying to fix it by removing the damaged tissue of the tree. And thus you will see a rough surface on one side of the bark. It was quite 'geli' to me./.\

But no worries, the Boab tree would gradually recover under the supervision of the botanists. I hope it did.


Again, our cacat self-captured glamorous pose!

Rough surface of the Boab


King's Park overlooks the Swan River so we got some nice views here.




Camwhore session in the park.



I absolutely love the winter tree look.








Hehe, a shot of us.

I love this photo lol

And more....




Embrace the green :D




#2 Monger Lake

They said the lake is famous for black swans? But unfortunately we didn't see any. But we spotted a numbers of birds, but we don't know what's their names.

I got nothing else to say about the lake except it was really beautiful.

The lake water reflects the blue skies.:)










#3 Heirrison Island

The island with wild kangaroos.We took yellow bus and stopped at no.31. Then we walked by Swan River until we saw a bridge. Cross the bridge. Heirrison Island is on your right.

We were lucky to see a couple of dolphins in Swan River on the way to meet the wild kangaroos.


Yes.They were kangaroos, birds and ducks on the island. According to some reference, kangaroos are  normally active at evening.

We went on morning and so I guess the timing wasn't right. We only saw around 5-6 kangaroos on an isolated small island of a lake. So we just watched them far far away.






Yellow is the dominant colour here.



Photo on bus!



When I came home, mum told me wild kangaroos are dangerous. Yes, wild kangaroos are unpredictable and they can be dangerous. Plus, I watched a video about a kangaroo trying to drown a dog.=(  He looks really evil in this video. :/








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