Bridgetown, WA

An unexpected pleasure

We arrived at Bridgetown after checking distances and coming up with a dead-set easy day to a place with a rural park near a town with some fun and basic supplies. Like cider, food, wine, fashion clothes for the Ballet (!) and maybe a bistro with a brewery attached.  
At right, Zan checking out the site - and making noises of delight and anticipation. Nobody behind us, where the view of the river and parklands were. Keith, Park manager, is a gem.
Bridgetown is also a gem, with one of everything and in top quality at that.

View from the van towards the Bowling Club at Bridgeport. New green, nobody on it, open invitation to roll-up.  We did.

Then we headed for the Cidery and Brewery for a great lunch, tasting and appreciating the local produce.

With Cider made from Pink Lady apples. Our tree is looking better even now before I start trying it.

Magic Plastic, new green running 14.5 secs. No dumping tolerated!

Along the road from Denmark we saw (again) such dramatic changes in the bush, ranging from 'More bushes in the under-storey' to 'Wow, the trees here are twice the size of the ones five km back' to 'Look! Grass trees! And they're huge..'
This time, I found a semi-precarious place to stop and take pix.

Below, the Navigator and Minister for War and Finance in her normal  state of afternoon ooperations.
Note coffee (another one),  binoculars - mostly for show,  as those readers who know Zan's optical  condition will know;  the yellow spray bottle is Lemon-scented Metho, used by most people to clean windows.

In town we found a boutique and equipped the Z Traveller with the gear required to visit Perth's Arts Centre and WA Ballet's Balanchine presentation. Marvellous!

This beautiful park is just the spot for the bird-lovers, with wrens, wagtails and a handful of other small birds.

Frankly, we really liked Bridgetown. It's a bit yuppy in a friendly sort of way, and the Arty-Farty element is prominent, but as yet, few travellers seem to have found it.

The Waterway behind the Bridgetown CP is appealing and a walk for a kilometer or so is pacific and worthwhile.