Friday, Oct 31 - Margaret River

Pics: our Bushlands cottage, our sheep neighbors, a Grevellia in the garden

Sunny again! We all drove to Margaret River and had a good breakfast of banana pancakes and ham and cheese baguettes. The boys left at 8:45 for Dunsborough to take their whale-watching cruise in hope of getting a few more pelagic species on the trip list and I walked around the village, looking at the shops and settled into a nice bookstore to catch up on email and blog.

I found out that our hot water heater had sprung a leak - every traveler’s nightmare - but that Phebe, our house sitter, and caught it and gotten her plumber to drain the heater before, I think, too much damage had been done…Anyway good to be warned rather than arrive home and find the mess unexpectedly. Hilary and Curry are trying to coordinate the plumber now that I have corrected the House Book with the new plumber’s name!
have corrected the House Book with the new plumber’s name!

I left after a couple of hours and caught a taxi back to Bush lands Cottages - taxis are an appropriate mode of transportation in a wine-tasting area - and relaxed! Took a nap, had a walk around the grounds, seeing cockatoos, our kangaroos, and a glimpse of the ocean. Read and sketched until Bob and Mark returned at 4. Into town for a very good dinner at Ze Arc of Iris restaurant.