Go West Young Man - Day 7 - 17 October2014

This post is being typed up at Perth Airport as I didn't  get back to my hotel until 09.30pm last night after a long day.

I had a continental breakfast in the hotel dining room at 07.00am and went back to my room to update day's 6 blog which took a couple of hours.  Then I had a short  walk before being picked up by my bus for a day tour of the Margaret River area.  The first stop was to pick up the other members of the group of four and we joined up for the days activities.

It was about 11.00am and  our first stop was a winery for a wine tasting.  This was a great winery and we were given a detailed description  of the winery's history and the wine we were tasting.  I really liked one of their  whites and also one of their reds and ended up buying a case of each to be delivered back to Tewantin next week.   We also had lunch at the winery and I had a steak sandwich which was very filling.  It was washed down by a glass of the red I had selected.

The rest of the day now became a blur of winery visits with an olive oil factory, cheese factory and brewery  visits thrown in.  I did not sample  any more wine but enjoyed the cheese and bucked up to sample the beer.  By now it laws 5.30pm and we were transferred back to our bus back to Perth.

We had a stop for a snack at 7.00pm and settled down for the long drive home where we arrived at 9.30pm.  We had traveled about 500km during the day.

I said a sad fair well to the rest of the group of four. Elaine and Brian were flying  back to Adelaide later next day and Christine was meeting up with her daughter.  We all exchanged email addresses and hope to keep in touch.

After sorting out my case for the flight home I finally got to bed at l030pm.

This day' blog was finally finished on Sunday 19 October at home.

Final day yet to come.

A view from the first winery

Part of the first winery tour.

My steak sandwich 

Another winery view

At the cheese factory

WA's floral emblem - The Kangaroo Paw
They come in many different colours

The beer tasting - they are very small glasses

Finally a picture of me and I drank them all