Well, we’re in Western Australia.

For those who didn’t hear, we were coming over for the wedding of one of Tegan’s cousins on 30 September, and independently a bunch of our friends were planning a group holiday to WA, and we have managed to combine the two. I’m posting from Dunsborough, which is on the coast north of the Margaret River – a few hours south of Perth and Fremantle.

We flew down on Monday night, spent a few days in Perth and Fremantle – checking out Rottnest Island and the Pinnacles, and then headed down South on Thursday. We spent yesterday getting settled and went to Cape Naturaliste (a popular whale watching spot, but we didn’t see any) and then to the Ngilgi (the first ‘g’ is silent) Caves, which are beautiful and very interesting limestone caves in the area – not as big, grand or old as the Jenolan Caves, but very good nonetheless.

The seven of us are staying in a luxury holiday home which has proved so far to be an excellent base for exploring the region. Today being a little windy for outdoor exploring, we’re heading off to tantalise our tastebuds with some of the local culinary delights – wine, cheese, chocolate, olives, fudge, more wine…

Highlights so far:

• Riding bikes around Rottnest Island (and seeing quokkas)
• The Pinnacles – amazing limestone formations (about 3 hours north of Perth)
• Hanging out with good friends
• Ngilgi caves
• Taking lots of photographs (hundreds of digital shots already, and almost four rolls of real film so far)