Here are some of the outings we've been taking advantage of the past few weeks. The Herdsman Reserve is always a fun and accessible place to visit. I like to think of it as our backyard. This boardwalk does a loop through a paperbark swamp and for the past year or so it has been partially closed due to some damage done by vandals. We visited it a month ago and found that it had been repaired. The boys were thrilled.
Stopping off at the favourite bridge for some pebble tossing.
Last month the boys and I got together with Merlene for a potato roast up in the hills. It was the same spot we visited two years ago and Eliot had not forgotten his important job of gathering sticks for the fire.
Peter got in on the action this time around.
Helping Merlene light the fire.
The boys were pretty good with the fire and kept a respectful distance.
While we ate, Red-tailed Black Cockatoos watched from the trees and ate their lunch above us.
Our next trip was to New Norcia, a monastic community north of Perth founded by Spanish Benedictine monks in the 1840s. It was a really interesting place, sort of the last thing you'd expect to find in the Australian bush.
Attempting to get the wiggles out by doing cart-wheels in the grass.
The monks made the bricks on site, though they didn't bake them hot enough and the bricks are weak and subject to erosion. Eliot found this very interesting.
The ground was very rocky and Peter Garbage Man went right to work gathering up the rocks.
And of course there's the beach. We just never get tired of the beach.
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