Back in holiday mode

This blog is back, temporarily, in holiday mode. That is: we're still alive -- not dead yet -- so we are off to enjoy ourselves :-)

There's Deb, still suffering from a cold. She's had a cold -- or a series of colds -- for months now. Plus a pulled muscle in her back. There's Deb's sister, her heart valve seems to work fine, up to a reasonable rate of bpm. More worrying is her sore hip, knees and feet. There's me... fit & healthy and not dead yet.

We're all ready to walk the Cape to Cape coastal trail. 120+ km of rock and sand and possibly gravel. It'll take a week. Should be a doddle :-)

Deb's sister doesn't want to spoil it for us. What if she has to pull out ? So she drives by herself to the start. If she can't walk all the way, she can drive home. (If Deb or I can't walk all the way... too bad.)

It is -- according to google -- a three hour drive. Deb and I set off at 9:30am. We drive down SW Highway rather than Forrest Hwy, Forrest is an unpleasant high speed freeway. SW Hwy is more of a pleasant drive in the country.

We stop for coffee and a shared scone in Pinjarra, at the Heritage Tearooms, a favourite place to stop.

Lunch is at May Gibbs Cafe, just before Harvey. Another favourite. Deb always stops to walk around the gardens. We share a BLT, enough for the two of us. And delicious!

Then coffee at the Capelberry cafe in (you guessed it) Capel. Excellent coffee.

Is the Capelberry "hipster" ? (I'm reviewing hipster cafes in a separate blog.) The cafe appears to be repurposed from an ordinary shop, so far, so hipster. The walls are decorated with several paintings but not particularly weird. The menu has interesting items but mostly just interesting variations on recognisable food. Not very hipster.

The waitress seems to be a Japanese with Australian accent, not a professional waitress. I guess a student on working visa. Standard hair style, no visible tattoos... okay, the cafe is not hipster. Very nice though :-)

We reach our accommodation -- Canal Rocks Apartments -- at about 3:15. Perhaps ten minutes after Deb's sister, who left home after midday. Yes, we travel slowly... we enjoy the journey as much as the destination.

The destination is 2br 1 bath on the ground floor. Views across a dead end road to the sea and the curve of a bay, across the water. Very nice !

We settle in. Unpack. Relax. Then Deb gets us moving again, to walk 100m or so to the next resort. We book in for dinner, buy milk, walk back. Cup of tea, relax.

Key worry for the women is the breakfast menu for tomorrow... We buy our own. The cafe does not open very early. They are worried that we will not have enough time to enjoy the good food before we get picked up to go walking... Oh dear, what a terrible predicament...

My own worry is that now -- almost finished this post -- there is still 20 minutes to wait till dinner. Oh well, guess I'll just have to tough it out for 20 minutes.

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Agamedes Consulting / Problems? Solved.
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"You can fool all of the people some of the time. Some of the people all the time. And make a fool of yourself... anytime." … Ginger Meggs
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