A plug for Kalbarri

[faffa_70]

Oh you're having some weird but wonderful weather!  Hardly any wind!

I love Kalbarri but I love living in Geradlton.  Best of both worlds.  Shops that make life easier but still have access to beautiful beaches, fishing and camping.

Enjoy the rest of your holiday.

I could never live back in Geraldton ... nice place for a holiday now lol 

[Halex]

I love living in perth, but..... Could easily do a month or so up here, relaxing with no schedules etc.

Whats the price of food in geraldton?
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[nola276]

We went to Kalbarri for our Honeymoon - how many many many years ago?  44 years ago .  It is a lovely place, but so much nicer then.  Very little there then.  Pub, Caravan Park Post office and little shop.  We took a little tent which we had purchased for next to nothing, and borrowed two camp stretchers from Dad.  We had Bull Ants near us, which we used to chop up with a large knife any time they made for the tent.  In those days, tents did not come with a sewn in floor.  In the end it was just easier to buy some Dieldrin (very nasty chemical freely available in those days) to deal with them.  Couldn't cook for nuts, so toasted sandwiches every night.  When it rained, we sat inside the tent in the mist and damp, as we found the tent wasn't waterproof.  Stretcher beds busted after our first night, with the canvas ripping in both of them, so we slept with our bums on the ground for 2 weeks .  Dad just laughed when we returned them and said "well they weren't built for two".

Thinking back on it all now, I am sooooo glad we have got a caravan.

[judydawn]

  What a great story Nola, I had a great laugh picturing you both on one of those stretcher beds. They would have to be the most uncomfortable things ever invented and the ground was probably much more comfy.

[nola276]

 

[medusa]

Hally my sister spent the week in Kalbarri too, staying at the same place.  Funny if you met.  They have had a great time too.  I keep getting texts with pics of huge yellow fin tuna they have caught.  They have a 14 year old son with them.

[Halex]

Medusa we might have met. Does your sisters name begin with a T? Does she have 3 older kids they left at home?
We were at the bbq last night and they offered us some tuna. I am allergic but dh said it tated frsh, fresh, fresh.

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[Halex]

Nola, what a honeymoon,, LOL

H

[fundj&e]

 

[cookie1]

Nola, that sounds very exciting. We've had some fun trips in tents too, but when DD arrived we got a caravan and of course have had them ever since.

40 years ago (DD was doing his nashos) my brother and I went up to Kalbarri after work on Friday for a long weekend. (from Morawa). We had made a booking at the only motel. When we got there the proprietress put on a huge stink, she wasn't having any of this 'going on' in her motel and was genuinely unpleasant. We look very alike and gave her our drivers' licenses to look at but she would have none of it. We eventually drove back home (around 200 mile) and didn't have the weekend away.
As you say Nola Kalbarri is a very different place now.

[medusa]

Ha ha yes, Hally that is her!!  Her older kids are at home.  Small world hey!!

[Frozzie]

Lol cookie how unpleasant indeed... Some people are strange

[Halex]

Wow cookie, what a stupid woman!!!! Driving licences dont lie!!!!

Very nice here these days with lovely locals

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[nola276]

We had a run in with the same woman.  Got ourselves kicked out of the pub.  They had hired a band to play that night, which I suppose in those days was quite special to them.  We had a group of Perthies, one of whom told the best jokes and had the whole room captivated.  No one wanted to listen to the band, they were all too busy laughing.  So, we had to gooooo.

[fundj&e]

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