Thursday, Oct 16 - to Narrogin

Pics: Shingle Lizard, Cream Buns, Eden Valley Alpacas




Clear, getting partly cloudy; 75 degrees. Mark got up at 5:30 to do a little birding, but we slept in, packed up and checked out at 7:30 when Mark returned.

We drove east on good back roads about 100 km to the town of Moora where we had heard that we could get fresh baked pastries at the Pioneer Tea Room. I finally had a cream bun which I had heard of for years but wasn’t sure what it was. A lovely soft bun filled with rich whipped cream and jam! Wonderful! And a jam tart and hot chocolate which came in a tall glass of hot milk with thick melted chocolate on the bottom. I was bouncing off the walls with that sugar high!


The countryside got much lusher with tall gum trees and wheat fields. Mark pulled off suddenly and we saw a foot-long Shingle Lizard by the side of the road! It tried to scar us off by hissing and sticking out its blue tongue!


Bob started driving as we worked our way south through Wannamal, Toodyay, the pretty old town of York and Pingelly where I took over the driving at last. There is so little traffic that I figured that even I could handle driving our huge car on the “wrong” side of the road. At Norrogin we turned north a few miles to the Eden Valley Farmstay and pulled into the drive of a 100 yr farm house with an even older cottage behind it. Amy, the sheep dog, raced over to greet us and we watched some parrots for a while until Barbara Harris appeared, very embarrassed as she had fallen asleep.

Not surprising as her husband is out of town on a geology trip and she is in charge of their 300+ acre farm, 400 sheep, cows and a few alpacas, plus the B&B She took us for a drive through fields to show us the friendly herds and the wool barn. She is a spinner of wool and she is hoping that I can fit in a visit to her spinning studio. No wireless!
We drove back to Norrogin for food shopping and pub dinner at the Duke of York Hotel.