First coffee stop along the way (an hour out of Perth) was at Mandurah Beach (we can report - great coffee and best muffins ever!)
But much closer to our destination we stopped at thriving Busselton on the Geographe Bay. Busselton's biggest claim to fame is its heritage listed 1.841 kilometre jetty, the longest timber piled jetty in the southern hemisphere.
Of course, we walked its full length ......
And its a very, very long jetty .....
The jetty began in 1865 and has been extended over the years as the ships got bigger and bigger and needed deeper water (transporting old growth timber to the rest of the world back in the day). Cyclones and storms have done damage in the past too requiring major restoration and rebuilding at times. There are bits of original structures remaining and the marine birds make good use of them.
We made it to the end (of course). There is a natural underwater marine observatory here too but we hadn't pre booked a tour this day, so missed out on seeing that!
A small solar powered train services the jetty - but we didn't join the queue for this trip.
Driving further round the bay, through Dunsborough we eventually made our way to the historic Cape Naturaliste Lighthouse, at the northern most tip of the Cape Naturaliste - Cape Leeuwin coastline that encircles the Margaret River region.
I am loving all the lighthouses we are getting to see this trip - and this one is a beauty (commissioned in 1903)!
Where we are and where we are going over the next three days .........
In our Toyota Corolla Hybrid hire car ...
... and so happy to be here!
We settled into our very roomy Margarets In Town apartment in Margaret River township and found a great place to eat over the road (Swings and Roundabouts). Swings and Roundabouts is a Yallingup winery on Caves Road, but this is it's town restaurant - we really enjoyed this meal, served quite early, as we were hungry after only having eaten a muffin all day - many hours ago! 
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