The Swan Valley

This morning Gordon picked us up to go for a drive to the Swan Valley. Geraldine wasn’t well and didn’t come with us, unfortunately, so the three of us went for lunch. On the way we drove along part of the Graham Farmer Highway, which includes a tunnel under the city. Graham Farmer was a football player whose nickname was Polly. The tunnel is called, of course, the Polly Pipe!


The Swan Valley is a great wine-growing area, many vineyards with cellar door outlets and restaurants. We had lunch at the Black Swan, very good lunch but definitely on the expensive side (as a lot of things are over here). The wine was good, though. On the way back we called in to the Margaret River chocolate factory, which has an outlet here. Very good chocolate, lots of different sorts, and it would be very easy to spend a lot of time and money in there. We escaped with a couple of chocolates and an ice cream, so did pretty well.

Gordon brought us back to the caravan park via the airport and showed us where to find the hire car return place, and also the way to the airport in reverse from here.

It was quite hot today, about 35 I think, and yesterday was also pretty hot. Tomorrow is supposed to be about 25 so that will be good. Les and I are very pleased that we missed the heat wave at home, it’s been middle 20s here most of the time with just the couple of hot days.