The Margaret River region is 300km south of Perth and abundant with wineries. Approximately 10 years ago we visited a lot (pre-kids) and you could enjoy wine sampling at hundreds of wineries, have dinner at some fantastic fine dining locations and relax in adult retreats. So....with 2 kids under 5 this did not seem like a good holiday for us or somewhere that we would want to take them. But my, the times they are a changing :)
Margaret River is a tourist mecca. The amount of things down there is unbelievable. We are so happily suprised i am trying to work out how i can go down there again soonish. Along with 150 wineries all within 1 hour of each other from boutique wineries to some of the largest in Australia (and the world?), there are now also 8 boutique breweries, 2 icecreameries, 2 chocolate factories, a number of dairy and cheese factories, plus lots of kiddie things (and adults) such as Mazes, mini golf, supa golf, farms, etc etc. Plus of course some of the best surf beaches Australia has to offer.
So on Friday i took the kids on the 3 hour drive to Yallingup. I
bootleg brewery playgroundhad booked us in to 4elements farmstay and we had a 2 bedroom chalet. I had hoped they would fall asleep but they refused, being very excited about a trip to a farm :) And the farmstay was really nice. THe chalet was more like a transportable but it had very nice furnishings, was very clean, had a fireplace for winter and a huge amount of paddocks all around it for the kids to run about in. And it was very safe for me to just let them go and do whatever...joy :) A thing i thought was a little strange was we were the only people there with kids - but at a lot cheaper price than townhouses in the super-touristy dunsbourgh i can see why adults would happily stay on a quiet farm.
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