Thursday, March 18, 2010

We drove down to Busselton over the weekend to check out a house we were planning to rent when all the kids come over for the Christmas holidays, and it was a good thing we did.  The house was only steps to the beach, but the beach, well, it was quite a surprise.  The sand for as far as you could see (and it was a very wide beach) was covered with decaying sea grass, and it smelled awful.  The water looked black, it was so full of churned up bits of sea grass, there's no way anyone would want to go in it.  So, we drove a bit further down to Dunsborough, and found a big house with only a 5 minute walk to the beach and town, and no sea grass.  Much better.  We also noticed lots and lots of "for sale" signs near the location of the first house, and we assume it's because of the mess on the beach, not exactly something that would drive up property values. 

While driving home, we passed an interesting business, with a sign that announced "Car, Boat and Dog Wash."  I would have loved to see how they put a dog through the wash, too bad it was closed.   We also almost hit a kangaroo on the highway, or rather, he almost hit us as he hopped across the road.  Luckily he landed right behind our car, and not in front of it.  And we saw our first wallabies, cute little guys that look like miniature kangaroos.