Nov 5 - 11

5th November Sunday
Week 29
This morning we shared a coffee with our camping/ travelling friends Mark and Julie, Teresa and Al at The Local Grocery Store coffee shop, before they continued further to the rest of their holiday.

Our plan today is to remain at Mount Barnett for another day and enjoy the sunny weather, sightsee the town and generally relax.
6th November Monday


Sue’s Birthday (gift from Russell)

Staying in and around Mount Barker today, and looking forward to a drive out to West Cape Howe winery for a wine taste testing. The presentation of this winery was spectacular, the grass was very green and so manicured, and the lake was an open invitation for Billy.

Yes, Billy couldn’t resist the water, but he had no idea how deep it was or how he was going to get out. In he went and a bit of panic set in when he couldn’t get himself out……but he did on his own.

After he finished the enjoyment of rolling on the soft grass we finally made our way to the entrance of West Cape Howe winery and what a place.


On entering the winery foyer the beautiful open spaces invited you to sit and relax either on the supple leather couch, or up near the bar area for wine taste testing. We chose the leather lounge and put our feet up on the wooden table with glass in hand, casting our eye around the award-winning estate.

Artists from around the vicinity have a lovely display of work including amazing iron wrought and laser cut images for sale. We spent a bit of time looking through some books they had on display aptly named Wine Dogs, which kept us amused for some time as we turned page after page reading the lives of how a dog’s life is on a winery, and the stories that unfolded.
We did finally leave the beautiful West Cape Howe winery and continued our drive to Mount Barker lookout for lunch, and the views were endless on such a clear day.

After lunch we drove back down into Mount Barker for the rest of the day and looked forward to dinner out to celebrate Sue’s birthday.

7th November Tuesday
This morning we leave Mount Barker and make our way towards Albany for the whole day as a lot of things to do. Our caravan TV aerial is faulty, so we shall be replacing that today and installing it somehow without a ladder.

Sue was just sitting at the coffee shop waiting her coffee when a complete stranger just handed her a King Charles Spaniel puppy to hold while she went into the cafe. Of course this dd not go down well and Sue just hatter the experience.   NOT.

Late this afternoon we returned back at Cosy Corner and plan to stay for the next 6 days.
The weather has continued to stay sunny and the beach and ocean beautiful as usual. We had friends drop into Cosy Corner for a visit on Thursday who we had spent time with at Mount Barker, but unfortunately there was no spare spots to camp.
These photos are the improvised version of what we used to access the caravan roof, by using the 4wd back tyre to stand on to reach the roof of van here at Cosy Corner. Billy of course found all this activity so exhausting he just lay down on the black sand and had a sleep.
On an afternoon we drove down to a very close section of track to another beach and what a gem! Turquoise clear water and no one else on the beach.

These are the views we always have when we go for our beach walks every morning.

Russell was not too excited about doing an oil change and then replaced the fuel filter, but we did go back to the beach as a reward.
On Saturday afternoon the weather forecast was predicting strong winds and possible showers, so that maybe the last of our sunny days for a while.