The south-west: trees; treats and tiring days

Hello from Adelaide, South Australia. Oh yes, we've finally made it out of the state of Western Australia and have made it back over this side of the continent. Hurrah. We got into Adelaide last night and were delighted to find that our caravan park is not only lovely but that it rents out TVs - so last night we were snug in ol' Tinksy watching crap Aussie TV and scoffing bacon sarnies. Bliss. First impressions of Adelaide: sunny, green and lovely.
We've taken a week to get here from Perth. We set off last Tuesday and headed to the Margaret River region in the south-west. This is a wine-growing region known for it's attraction to foodies, so we spent a day with me in my little element. We visited a cheese factory, a chocolate factory, a venison farm, an olive grove and a vineyard - with tastings at all! We picked ourselves up an award-winning shiraz that you can't get in the shops and various lovelinesses from the other places for a picnic lunch that we didn't scoff until the following day as we treated ourselves to a rather expensive lunch of fillet steak with blue cheese and caramelised onion tart followed by French blue cheese with pear and walnuts washed down with a nice red at the Voyager Estate. Thanks to my girlfriends from school for that treat (I spent two-thirds of my birthday cash from them on the meal - a marvellous birthday treat, I say). The rest of the cash is going on a wine-tour in the Barossa Valley whilst we're here, to stick to the theme!
Thoroughly stuffed we headed down to Cape Leeuwin - the south-westerly tip of Oz where the Indian and Southern Oceans meet. There we waved goodbye to the Indian Ocean we'd met at Broome and started to finally head east.
The next day was tree-filled, visiting various karri and tingle forests filled with massive trees (you know how I like my trees). We climbed to the top of a 51m lookout tree using stakes hammered into the trunk and made sure we didn't look down on the journey back to earth! We also visited a tree-top walk 40m in the forest canopy and ooed and aahed at the baby kangaroos that had been rescued. Sweet!




That night we stopped at a lush free camp by the beach and then prepared ourselves for the long slog ahead of us. Oh yes, it was long. In 4 days we did over 2000km. We crossed the infamous (in Oz) Nullarbour (meaning no trees in latin) that straddles the WA-SA border and in doing so moved from one time zone into another. The days were long and pretty boring - apart from when the road moved close to the cliffs or a mad sign appeared warning you to look out for camels and wombats as well as the roos! When we arrived in Adelaide last night I was sooooooo happy. Final stretch now before we get jobs. I'm a bit saturated with doing the tourist thing in Oz now... Still, it's not work. Hahahahaha!