First stop was back where we saw the Dolphins yesterday, not a great result, they were there but we're not playing and they were swimming a lot of the time under the rock I had sat on yesterday, whereas today we are on the dirt track road and although we possibly took 60-70 photos, everyone of them has been deleted.........
We then head back towards Augusta, driving 75kms to Hamlin Bay where we hope to see some sting and eagle rays, we get there and start to have lunch first, then whilst 'Dishwasher Babe' is doing her bit, I go to check out where the Rays could be......... Whoosh....... Dishwasher Babe is now in the way, I've been, I've seen and I'm back to change into my swimming gear, chattering away like an excited child. Two minutes later we are both on the beach, click, click, clicking away, I then get in the water with them and they just swim right up to me, hover over my toes, decide I must be off and then swim away again, I chase after them with go pro videoing under the water and they look as if they patrol a specific area around the boat ramp. After about 10 minutes of me squealing, touching them, they touching me, including their tails swiping me twice, a fisher-lady walks down towards me, enters the water and holds three fish she had just caught and filleted down under the water, whoosh 2 with a flap and a flick a ray is over her hand and the fish are gone whilst she is stroking the Rays head, she then repeats this process possibly a dozen times, 50% of which she had me right up next to her and the rays. Can I get anymore excited, not today I can't........... Having spent longer at Hamlin Bay than expected I'm now in a rush to get to our next stop off near Margaret River, called Berry Farm.
We arrive about 3pm so only have an hour before it closes, it's basically a Berry Farm cafe, only they encourage the, you guessed it, Blue Fairy Wrens to frequent the place. We get there order tea and a scone, whilst I have a Boysenberry Pie and ice cream at which the waitress says, if you cannot finish it, we can give you a bag to take it home, hmm must be big I thought....... We sit down and whilst we are both happy due to the Ray experience, there are no Blue Fairy Wrens to be seen, possibly a bit late says 'Birdie Babe' we are sitting there and sitting there and then I see a splash of Blue behind 'Blue Babe' I'm up over the other side of the terrace with a table of eight Chinese who are or at least sound more excited than us, little 'Better late than never Babe' is now clicking away whilst shouting instructions to me not to get too close and frighten them away.....
Frighten them away, you are having a laugh........ Our drinks and food arrive whilst we are away from the table, we return and start to consume said purchases when a Bright Blue Fairy Wren lands on the table between us and starts helping himself to the cream for the scone, next second there's another one looking as if she might put a pattern on my hat....... The food is left for awhile whilst close up photos are being taken and yet still they come and land on the table, the chair backs and the cream pot, in fact we actually gave up taking photos of them, as we had enough and so as to finish our food before they closed, hence why no dinner for us tonight. We are the last to leave, without a doggie pie bag, I would add and head off to the Town itself to look for a decent restaurant for tomorrow night, we look and look but decide to ask the campsite people, when we check in, it's not going to be easy, put it like that.........
And so on the last night of her 59th year of breathing, she is sat in a pitch dark Forrest, surrounded by 100+ feet trees, no TV signal on a Friday night, 14,500kms away from home but she is content with life, happy with her lot, comfortable with herself and apparently only wants for one thing,
'A good man' anyone know where you get one of those?
Eagle Ray
Sting Ray
The Business end
Afternoon Tea anyone!
I'm also looking for a good man!
