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February
17
2008

Bridgetown Part 4 – BBQ

Last week John and Vanya invited us along with a few other families to give thier new BBQ a run. The kids had a great time playng together and in particular riding the motor bikes. Even the littlies had turns of going for a ride with John.

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February
12
2008

Site update – More features

I have added some new features to the site:  «—click here to read more—»

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February
3
2008

Bridgetown Part 3 – Lake Towerrinning

Late yesterday afternoon we met up with the Talbot family and two other families for a few beers and to try our luck at catching marron in the local river, we didn’t have much luck with the marron, but had a great time sitting by the river telling yarns and having a few drinks while the kids played together. Afterwards we continues on at Steve and Fran’s place till quite late that night. While there we organized to meat up with the Talbot family the next day and go for a drive to check out Lake Towerrinning. The lake is about an hours drive north east of Bridgetown. «—click here to read more—»

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February
1
2008

Bridgetown Part 2

February already!  Back to School!  Still Bridgetown!

Jayson started schooling for 2008 this week, considering its the first week back it seems to be full on. Unlike last year where he was knocking the days work over in less than a couple hours, this week he has been spending 6+ hours a day to get though it. In saying that, he has done 5 days work over 4 days, Monday being a public holiday. I think he is going to be a busy boy this year!

January has come and gone, yet we are still here in Bridgetown Carvan Park. We had initially intended to stay for 10 days, then a further few days, then a further week, and now its over a month later and we are still here and happy to stay a little while longer. The weather is great, the park is quiet and friendly, we have made friends with the park owners Brad and Sue, a couple of other long term guests and socialised with many of the other guests that have come and gone over the month. We haven’t travelled far from Bridgetown in the past couple weeks, other than the odd 30k trip to Manjimup to stock up on groceries.

We have had a couple nights of entertainment by a solo musician who plays the guitar, «—click here to read more—»

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January
16
2008

Site Update – face lift

I have made some changes to the site over the past couple days. Most are cosmetic changes such as the header picture, font colours, background, etc.
One of the more useful changes is the calendar in the side bar. The calendar highlights today’s date, displays day numbers in bold red for dates on which posts where written, clicking dates will display posts made for that day.
You can also scroll months using the links bellow the day numbers, to jump direct to a particular month you can choose the month from the Archive list bellow the calendar. The calendar will change to the month you select from the archives.
The side bar now shows on the Photo/album pages also.

Feel free to add a comment !  or make suggestion

I have made a lot of code changes so if you find any problems please let me know

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January
6
2008

Bridgetown Part 1

We have been in Bridgetown for the past week and are due to check out of the park in a couple days time but we are considering staying on longer. With a population of approximately 4000 people, Bridgetown is a reasonably small community based in the Jarrah timber logging area, however the town’s attraction to tourism is its heritage style. Bridgetown CBD is set in the valley of very hilly country along the Blackwood River, the surrounding homes fill the hill sides land with most block having a fall of 1:10 to 3:10. Having friends who live here makes it an attractive place for us to stay for a while, however it is also conveniently central to most towns in the south west part of WA. We have been for several day trips to Perth, Busselton, Bunbury, Margaret River and many smaller towns in the area.

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December
28
2007

Albany to Bridgetown

We left Albany on Boxing day and stopped at the Valley of the Giants.

Boxing day was quite warm down here, reaching 41 Deg C. We arrived at the Valley of the Giants before midday so the day had heated up. We grabbed some drinking water and head off to walk the tree tops and valley. Although it was very warm, the trees did offer shade which made the walk more comfortable. «—click here to read more—»

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December
27
2007

Albany – Our Christmas

We would like to thank our dear friends, John, Vanya, Bonnie, Penny, Grace, Mary and Harriet Talbot for making our Christmas a time to remember. Christee-Lee and I discussed on a few occasions our concerns about Christmas on the road, we were concerned that we would all miss being at home with our families. Although we do miss our families, we had one of the most enjoyable Christmases ever, and by far the high light of our trip so far. As we drove off from Albany we were wishing the Talbots were coming with us, we were all missing their company.

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