Island Aqua Park

We left our holiday park at Gracetown and drove to Busselton and saw a long jetty. (Note from parents: it is the longest timber-piled jetty in the southern hemisphere at 1,841 metres long.)

Then we drove back to Perth and went to Hillarys Boat Harbour with Clare and Isaac. We went on huge inflatables and we went on it for my birthday party! We wore life jackets. It was like a ninja course. I jumped in. I fell in. I jumped off a tall platform. There were monkey bars. It was fun!

After we had tea we went back to Clare and Isaac’s house and they gave me a doughnut cake!

Surfing and chocolate

Today we went to Smiths Beach and had a surfing lesson. It was very fun and on our first try we stood up! We got very good at it. We fell in multiple times. The waves were really big and strong. After that we went body boarding.

Afterwards we went to a chocolate factory! We ate loads of free chocolate! There was milk, white and dark chocolate. We liked the milk chocolate best.

Cape Leeuwin

We left our holiday park and drove to Cape Leeuwin lighthouse. This is where the Southern and Indian Oceans meet at the furthest south west point of Australia. To the south is Antarctica and to the west is Africa. I saw where they met through a telescope. I also bought a tiny one that works very well.

Inside the visitor centre we spelt out names in telegraph flags. Then we practised morse code and learned about radio signals.

Valley of the Giants tree top walk

In the morning mummy, Martha and I did a walk called the Coalmine Beach Heritage Trail. In the 1930s settlers came to live in this area and would have walked this way to the beach to go fishing.

Then we drove to the Valley of the Giants and did a tree top walk. It was built to protect the tingle trees roots. The walk went up to 40m! The trees were giant. It was sometimes windy so we had to take our caps off. We walked along a metal track and platforms. We did it twice.

We then did a small tour of the forest. We saw lots of big trees. Some had holes in them caused by fires.