reflections of our life on the farm and beyond

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Off to Harvey (Day 14)

I know that this is ridiculous, but we are pulling up stumps to travel about 40km up the road!  My cousin Dario works in the construction industry and he is on a fly in/fly out rota.  He is flying in tonight and we are going to catch up with him for morning tea (more about that later).

We called in to say goodbye to Darrel, Kellie, Adi and Matt on our way past.  They are headed for Busselton today for the Easter period.
But, we couldn't stay at Bunbury because the caravan park was booked out for Easter, but my cousin's wife, Jodie, was able to get us a site at Harvey.  So off we went and also checked out a few of the local attractions whilst we were there.  Like.....

  • Did you know that May Gibbs (of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie fame), lived here and it is said that her inspiration for the popular duo came from her time living here
  • Harvey Info Centre is home to the Moo Shoppe....quite an extraordinary amount of cow things here (yep, we bought some!)
  • The local cheese factory - HaVe Cheese - has won some state awards and has some of the most creamiest soft blue cheese that i have ever tasted (and nup...still don't like blues!).  There are also camels out the front of the factory
  • Harvey is the home of the Big Orange.  I'm sure that there are a few towns that lay claim to this one!



Total kms today: 75
Total kms travelled all up: 4,288

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