Tuesday 9th to Thursday 11th April, 2024

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We have stayed in Balinup for three nights, going out to the Golden Valley Tree Park twice for most of the day. Looking at the photos and videos I have taken in the park I don’t feel they really do it justice. There is a lovely feel to being in the park that the visuals can’t capture. However, the photos and videos will be good for helping us remember being here. We went to the world collection the first day.

On Tuesday we spent the whole day in the park, after admittedly getting away quite late in the morning. There are short walks and longer walks, and we took the Pear Walk which takes you gradually uphill until you reach a viewing point, then it is a quick, steeper downhill walk back to the carpark.

I cooked lunch for us, a sausage curry, very delicous. A ranger came and spoke to us about not camping in the carpark and we assured him that we were staying at the Transit Park.

It was disappointing to find someone in our camping spot when we returned in the evening. They had rung the out of hours number and the person they spoke to did not have a way of checking which sites were booked. We parked on the other side next to the oval for the night. Yesterday morning I confirmed our site booking and when we arrived back it wasn’t taken. We like this side because it overlooks the river (dry at the moment) and the little bridge. It also has thick grass which means we are not trekking dirt inside.

Instead of going straight out to the Park yesterday we stopped at the little General Store for some essentials, then went to one of the two cafes. It is called Mr Foster and is very quirky and interesting. I took a photo of the dragon outside on our first evening and was able to get a better photo in daylight.

We had our first cloudy morning today, which meant we had a colourful dawn.

Today we move on to a new location. But, we have our site here until 12.00 noon and are having a relaxing morning. The Bibbulmun Tracks runs through here and we may take a walk along in the other direction as we have already followed it into town on the first evening we were here.