Beth's Oz Adventure

After leaving Kalbarri last week, travelled 10 hours south to Fremantle, just south of Perth. There I discovered a place to live and work where not only is accommodation free but employment is paid and work is only 6 hours a day. Plus great on site facilities including gym, theatre, meditation & art classes. Also only 2 people per room and room service also included, plus opportunities to purchase a range of herbal teas! Yes this is the Fremantle prison, now closed to prisoners but open to the public since 1991. There I learnt all about convict life and some of the great escapes that took place. And after deciding that spending some time in the slammer might not be so bad after all my next stop was the nearby chocolate factory where I carried out my first heist!

So am now hiding out in Margaret River, right in the Southwest corner of Oz where I have discovered the heist was not necessary as this is chocolate / cheese / wine heaven with tasting opportunities at every turn (literally - on the 50k stretch of road down here there is a sign to a winery at almost every side road!). Am wwoofing here with a family (John & kids - Angelique & Leon) a few k's out of town on a 4 acre property surrounded by forest complete with vege garden, chooks, 2 kangas with Joey's, bunnies, a pool and a trampoline! Beach just down the road too. John is a herbalist so have been doing lots of herb type stuff including pressing / bottling the tinctures and gardening.

The cappuccino strip in Fremantle

Yes in Oz even the Millipedes can read

Pool cleaning action!

Unfortunately one of the previous wwoofers made a terrible error when mixing up the herbs....