Pic: Katy's Marron, Blue Loft Cottage
Awoke to pouring rain and thunder! Drove into town to a bakery where Bob had a delicious slice of pizza and a custard tart and Mark and I had muffins. We split up and Bob and I walked in the rain to a tourist information booth for maps and hiking guides and settled into a store with an ethernet connection and caught up on emails. We met up with Mark who had discovered that Simpson, his wonderful 15-year old cat, had been dropped off at his house on Sunday due to a miscommunication! Due to the wonders of Skype, he was able to talk to his neighbors who will feed and care for Simpson until we return. Whew!
We decided to try and take some walks in the national parks nearby as it was only drizzling. We drove the Karri forest loop through tall beautiful salmon-colored Karri eucalypts and finally saw the Varied Sitella, a small black and white bird, that Mark and Bob had been trying to find. We drove by the fancy Karri Valley Resort and made a reservation for dinner. Bob and I drove home, stopping at the Beedelup Falls for a quick walk, and found ourselves on a wildly swinging, narrow suspension bridge over the small falls, made it over and returned to the A-frame to change and back to the Resort. I finally had a chance to order “marron”, the local crayfish and got one that weighed one pound! Just like a “chicken” lobster and quite good, although the thorax was filled with salmon mousse and I didn’t get to find out if marron have tomalley or not.
TV, bed and hopefully a sunnier tomorrow.
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