When we woke up this morning, it was sunny and calm (the wind seems to come up in the afternoon), so we ate a quick breakfast and headed back across the footbridge to the “Entrance Walking Track” on 90 Mile Beach. The signs indicated that users go out and back on the same path but there were other paths that led off the main track to the beach. The main path didn’t go to the open ocean so we took the first path that led out to the ocean. It was so beautiful out there – we were the only people on the beach – the only sounds were the waves breaking and the birds. We saw so many

shells
and a lot of

animal tracks (we’re now looking for an identification guidebook so that we can identify them). The end of the walk brought us to a Historical area where there was a lot of

old machinery on display.

The path back was through the forest on unpacked sand – it was harder walking than the beach had been. The entire walk took about 2 hours and we only started to meet other people when we were returning to the starting point of the trail. All the way back, we could hear birds but couldn’t see them. It was like they were playing hide and seek.

On our way back to the condo, we took a few side trips to view the entrance area from a higher altitude. There are 3 viewpoints on the way up the hill out of town and they all have spectacular views.

After returning to the condo (and having my coffee), we headed out to The Wynanga Park Winery to check out their “cellar door” (the wine tasting room). When we arrived, there was a group who had travelled to the winery on the “Corque”. It’s a 90 minute trip up the North Arm and includes lunch at the winery cafe. The owner of the winery, Geoff, transports the tour group from the dock to the winery in a bus and he was just ready to take them back to the boat. We were invited to ride along while he did that – what a ride. The tour group and Geoff were in fine form – and we enjoyed the trip to the boat and back. When we got back, we tasted some of the wine. We really enjoyed the riesling and the muscat and got a bottle of each. While we were there we were talking to Geoff about where we came from and he pulled out a map and got us to sign it and indicate where we were from. His map is getting tattered so we’re going to send him another one as he collects maps. While he was asking where we were from, he said “Oh Canada – maybe you know my cousin”, so we laughed and played along. Turns out that he’s related to Adrienne Clarkson (through a grandfather 3 times removed – so that would be great, great, great grandfather??) so we did know his cousin. It was a fun afternoon and we were glad we decided to check the winery out.

Temperature on Sunday: 23 C, sunshine and a few clouds