Saturday, November 26, 2011

::Perth Day 4: Margaret River - Perth::

Day 4. Good Morning Margaret River! Temperature is 14 degree celcius and it's quite sunny out there.
Start our trip in Margaret River.. Where all the regrets for the day begin..
It's very difficult since every places operate from 9am-4pm.
Even caving also starts at 9am and we have to wait! Entrance fees is AU$22.. we skipped anyway.
We hop to Lake Cave. Entrance fees is AU$22 too.
But we are here since we have the free entrance into their interpretive corner, get from the Leeuwin Lighthouse ticket we bought yesterday.
Ok.. Forget about caving trip. Let's change to wineries trip.
The first wineries we stop by, since we pass by them.
But we did not went for the wine tasting. Should say, they are not open yet..
We continue to Leeuwin Estate.. one of the seem famous wineries. We have the free wine testing. Nice!
We wanted to join the tour bcoz I want to know how they produce wine, but the tour start only at 11am..
We dont have such much time to wait :(
Wineries .. :)
So we skipped and went to next door. Are they rivals actually?
The entrance and surrounding is so grand. Very neat and tidy with plants.
Classic. I love it :)
Wine testing counter.. where we had few glasses for free.. kaka..
Actually they ask us to spit it after test, commenting it is dangerous for driving. The barrel there is for spits.. but we swallow it anyway. feel it's a waste to spit it out. lol.. After happily bought 2 wine for our parents, we then head back to the town of Margaret River to grab some lunch and do some shopping :)
Another quiet town.
We grab a AU$13 set lunch from Chicken Treat (fast food). 1/4 chicken which is very tiny, fries, mash potato (from machine) and chicken burger. Uh-oh.. not so nice.
Stop by Fudge Factory.
I always thought factory should be something like my company? Big gigantic mass production place?
I always thought this is named as open kitchen shop? Hrmm.. 
Nth special but we end up spending AU$22.50 for fudges. LOL!
Brought home for families and friends testing, which I don't even think it's enough for distribution of 5 ppl. Now that I think back, I felt that it's damn expensive! We then go to hunt for nougat for my ah dear.
We did some sampling but only can afford to buy one bar back.One bar already cost AU$15.
*again, I wish I am filthy rich*
But I really think they shouldn't sell in bar and should sell in small size instead. Sigh..
Next.. the chocolate company! Hohoho~ Chocolates!! A lot!!
We got voucher for purchasing chocolates at the chocolate company, which require us to come 400m here for chocolate wine testing.
Only a sip of it.. Cheeeehhh! But tasted nice though!
End of shopping spree in MR.. it's time to start our driving trip back to Perth. We are getting late already.

It's a regret we are not able to spend longer at MR. Such a waste. If I had more time, I will go to all the wineries for free wine tasting. And go for more 'factories' .. and dine a luxurious dinner with a glass of wine.
And here we are reaching Busselton after more than 1 hour drive..
The Simmo's .. which seem famous in Aussie.
And so we bought one scoop of choc mint ice cream with AU$4. Nice!~
The Busselton Jetty.
Bye bye Busselton =(
It's a regret we unable to go in the jetty and walk the 2km jetty until the end of it. I guess there is nothing much to see, but since we already here, we should at least walk there and decide either to go the underwater observatory or not.
Limited time.. left us without choice. :(
After speeding due to rushing time to return our car.. here we are. Hello Perth City!
Looking for foods inside the town.. No idea what to have coz we need to hunt for cheap worthy foods.
We end up here seeing so many ppl inside.
She took my order wrongly!!! #$%^&& And gave me sashimi rice instead of sushi cost me AU$12.50. Sashimi is very fresh. But I can't accept it eating this few pieces of sashimi with a bowl of rice. Hurrr..
Tuna don.. AU$12.50
The room we slept for 3 nights for AU$235/ 3 nights.
I'm ok with the small room and shared toilet concept. But I can't take it that behind this hostel is railway station and the trains choo choo until 3am in the morning @@

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