WHAT LOCALS KNOW – Make your own adventure with my own secrets

I see the margaretriver.com and other website suggesting things to do in the Augusta Margaret River region.

I agree with most of these must see and do’s, but I have my own local secrets that only a girl born and bred from a family that is born and bred can know.  Sure, some are hidden and should perhaps stay that way, but I am not one of those who believes we shouldn’t share.

Now that I own and run 4 cafes of my own around my home town, each with stunning local scenery, I am going to be biased, but I also have tips on other places, their highlights and must-tastes.

The absolute beauty of this area of the world is we trust you to find your own adventure, so please respect our secret spots and ‘Do the righty’

Take only photographs.  Leave only footprints. Take deep breaths and relax into country life.

CAPE LEEUWIN LIGHTHOUSE

So your may be thinking this is where the road ends.

I call Bullshit (Pardon the term, but I’m a chef and dairy farmer’s daughter – we call it how we see it).

This is where the adventure starts.  Late start, sure… 8:45am is late down this way.  By now the cows have been milked and the hay is fed out to the sheep, but the crowd is still coming from the North on day trips so you get the meeting point of two oceans with a big tall lighthouse for protection to yourself.  Plug for the cafe- Bacon and eggs and a darned good coffee are quite the thing on a cool morning with a strong sea breeze. The Cape gets wild -She’s not named Lioness in Dutch because she’s tame and well-behaved, and that’s what we love most about her… In Winter she often sports magnificent double rainbows – Just amazing no matter how many times you see them.

After spending a good half hour or three on the Cape, stop by one of the gorgeous coves on your return to town.  The Waterwheel is a great spot to get that old-worlde photo of nature taking over human creations.  Skippy Rock Road is a dirt road, but it is the spot to take a great all-seeing photo from up high on the Leeuwin-Naturaliste Ridge of the oceans and lighthouse.  From May-December you can spot a whale or twenty on most days, especially during the winter months of July and August.  Such a great time to be alive – These magnificent beasts are travelling North to have their calves and get warm during winter, some hooking up with new boyfriends (competition pods are amazing to watch, with the bull whales fighting for supremacy as a mate to the cows) then travelling back past with the new kids heading home for a belly full of krill.

Now it’s your choice to rest your tootsies (feet) at your accommodation or head on past town to