Green Head to Perth

We stopped off at Green Head to break up our trip to Perth. This is an interesting stretch of coastline with myriads of fishermen's huts lining the coastline. How you could return to the city from these glorious locations is beyond comprehension. We walked and explored some of the local beaches such as Window Rock where we cooked up some snags and onion sandwiches one afternoon after visiting Lesueur National Park(photo).
One of the the proprietors of the caravan park, where we stayed, provided us with a mud map of this park guiding us to the locations of various orchards that she had located several days earlier. She has made a hobby of photographing the wild flowers, particularly the orchids. We spent a fascinating day searching through the magnificent wildflowers for which this park is so famous, successfully locating and admiring many of these rare and beautiful flowers (photo - spider orchid). We have been so lucky to be in Western Australia for one of the best wild flower exhibitions in many years, with the display of wild orchids enhanced by recent bush fires that has stimulated the blooming of these intriguing flower, which explains why we returned to the caravan park looking like chimney sweeps.
On the morning that we where scheduled to leave for Perth, with the water heating for a cup of tea, the stormy night erupted into a serious squall that ripped the annex from it's moorings causing pandemonium. We retrieved all the canvas, guy ropes and tent pegs, undamaged but wet and muddied, abandoned the concept of preparing breakfast and packed up and drove off to find a cafe down the road for a hot chocolate and scrambled egg breakfast.
The freezing  gale force winds whisked us down to Perth where we have seen the sights of Kings Park, Fremantle and a wind swept Cottesloe Beach (photo), enjoying the wonderful West Australian Aquarium, highly recommended, visiting the Maritime Museum, and doing the acclaimed tour of the Fremantle Prison, an absolutely a horrendous experience to be avoided at all costs. We enjoyed the sights at Kings Park, as well as great food, coffee and chai latte at the restaurant. We also found a great seafood shop when we got completely lost driving around the suburbs and dined on fresh prawns and oyster in the camp kitchen that evening, to the consternation of other caravan park inhabitants lusting over our lucky find.
We caught up with Linda & Ben (Sue's sister & brother-in-law, who are completing a lap of the park on the tar) while in Perth, and plan to spend a couple of days with them at Margaret River, which is where we are off to tomorrow to stock up our wine supplies and continue our journey, hopefully leaving the wet & windy weather of Perth behind us..