Weekend away - Saturday

We were all up by 7, woken by Nakita's squeaky bed !

We decided to go to Walpole and do the tree top walk. After driving for 1.5 hours it hit us that we hadn't seen any houses, petrol stations (road houses) or anything except trees.........trees as far as the eye could see in all directions with a straight road running for miles through the middle. All of a sudden we came upon Walpole, a buzzing little place, a small street with a few cafes and shops. Just outside we found the valley of the giants treetop walk. This is a part of the forest where narrow walkways have been built leading up to the top of the trees allowing you to have a 'birds eye' view. It was incredible and some found it scary ....Tallulah and Nakita ploughed on and loved every minute, no one scared of heights here !!

We then went on towards Denmark, calling into a toffee factory along the way. On entering Denmark I realised that, after travelling for miles through forests, the first thing you come to on arriving at civilisation is always a bottle shop, no matter what town it is, always a bottle shop ! We stopped in Denmark for a lovely lunch but everything else was shut for a Saturday afternoon (of course!) so headed back.

I saw a sign for 'Peaceful Bay' which sounded good so I made Paul stop and it was worth it, the scenery was lovely and the sand a wonderful white. Back at Walpole the place that on the way in was buzzing, was now dead !! It was like those country and western movies where you know a big fight is about to happen !

Along the way you come across a few roos in varying stages of decomposure (roadkill isn't removed) and Paul and I tried to convince the girls that the bones were those of naughty children who squabbled in cars and whose parents had thrown them out. The girls did bicker a bit during all the time spent in the car but in the UK they couldn't do a 20 minute journey without killing each other and here we are talking hours after hour travelling, so they were pretty good.

On the journey back to the resort  http://www.karrivalleyresort.com.au/index.html we decided to take a short cut across an unsealed road ie no tarmac. Nakita thought it was a wonderful massage and Paul thoroughly enjoyed bouncing the ute up and down, although, by the end, the black ute was completely red !

At the resort Nakita kept bugging us to take a walk up to the falls so off we set, a little late, which wasn't a good thing to do as it was getting dark by the time we reached them....and there were no falls as we hadn't had any rain ! Still it was good exercise, Nakita did struggle quite a bit and Tallulah kept reminding her that if she was on 'The Biggest Loser' it would be tougher than that !!! Nakita then got scared on the way back as it was dark and spooky and there were lots of strange noises but it was good fun, I'm glad we did it and we all were soundly asleep by 9pm once again

11:11 - Mon 31 March 2008