We drove down to Margaret River on Monday afternoon and caught the sunset at Surfers Point. It’s an excellent surf spot, though unfortunately there weren’t any surfers in the water. But the sunset was lovely.
We’d developed a nice routine the last few days of hiking a bit in the morning before rewarding ourselves with lunch and afternoon wine tasting. Tuesday was another fine day of this. We returned to the Cape to Cape trail, this time parking and walking across the mouth of the Margaret River, which was just a big sand bar in the summer dry season. We soon came to my favorite section of the trail. The far point in this picture is Cape Mentelle.
We continued; this is looking back at Cape Mentelle from the north.
We came to some stairs that went down to the beach and shoreline.
There were plenty of rocks to climb on.
Back on the trail, we came upon a monitor lizard. Someone on Insta says it’s a Sand Goanna… He moved along to let us pass.
We had lunch at the recommended White Elephant Cafe. Great food in a beautiful setting.
Afternoon wine tasting included Voyager Estate with its lovely formal gardens. We also visited Leeuwin Estate winery and ran into Cam, our AirBnB host (along with Nadia). We didn’t even know he worked there.
We did another morning hike on our last day in Margaret River before driving on to Denmark.
Note the Cape to Cape trail sign in this one.
A (probably) local guy passed us on the trail, and he was stopped a couple of minutes later to point out this python. Thanks for the heads up! This guy slithered off after a couple of minutes; he was much longer than I would have guessed.
On the drive to Denmark, we stopped at Jewel cave. It’s a large (several kilometers long) cave discovered in the 50s. This is the largest “room”:
They call this “bacon”
Here are the “organ pipes”
And other fun stuff in a cave…
We continued south to the far southwestern “corner” of Australia and the meeting of the Southern and Indian oceans. It’s also the end of the Cape to Cape track with the Cape Leeuwin lighthouse.
