29^th December 2016

The weather was warm enough to take breakfast on the veranda and promised to get even warmer as the day progressed.

Breakfast on the veranda

Becks had spotted a dead spider on one of the chairs and "reliably" informed us that there are no deadly ones in Western Australia. Not sure Sheila would take her word for it.

Aussie eyes are watching!

Sheila and I headed up to Dunsborough Lakes Golf Course about 40 minutes north of the house. We paired up with a couple of guys who had played the course once before and with some effort remembered how the fairways linked up. One was an Australian and the other Maori and both lorry drivers by profession.

The course meandered around a housing complex so each fairway was disconnected along its length from the next and boarded on both sides by smart looking houses. Some of the houses even had no boundary fences or hedges so some residents could easily walk straight from their garden onto the tee. True to its name there were plenty of lakes and a few streams.

Dunsborough Lakes Golf Course

Sheila in action

The other odd aspect of the course was that the golf range was a lake. Apparently range balls have a lower density than normal golf balls and float.  The bar of the tavern is orientated so that clientele can watch the action from the comfort of their chairs.

Golf Range Lake

When we left we picked up a text message from Phil that he was going out windsurfing at Surfer’s Point so we headed there to see some of the action before driving into Margaret River to pick up some provisions.

Phil catches air at Surfer's Point