Alliteration is a literary stylistic device, but in this case ‘Round the rugged rocks the ragged rascals ran’ ideally nominates some of the activities undertaken on a recent limited seniors’ tour of the south west.
We joined Bill and Wendy Moodie on a day-trip to Augusta and surrounds, for all of us it had been a decade or more since we had been in the area. The old relics refers to the now fossilised working parts from a long forgotten era and seen here on the beach at Leeuwin.
For us it was fortunate the BOM had failed to accurately forecast the weather for the capes that day, so lunch was taken outdoors on the lawn of the Augusta Hotel with views overlooking the Blackwood river where it flows into the Southern Ocean.
Hamelin Bay with its now derelict semblance of a jetty was also a picture evoking thoughts of perhaps taking a beachfront cabin next spring.
And the majestic Boranup Forest which never fails to impress showed her mighty form and colourful grandeur amid the dappled late afternoon sunlight; the splendour of nature that has a certain stateliness which all admire.
With days end and seeking for further amusement we paid and went into Amigos Mexican restaurant in Dunsborough where we had margaritas, coronas, dips, tacos and burritos.
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