Caving in Denmark

In honour of Grumpy's visit, we decided to do something completely new on this trip to Busselton: caving!

And holy mackanoly, what beautiful caves they were. First we visited Lake Cave with its amazingly photographic reflections and learned all about the mega fauna that used to live across Australia and whose remains have been found in many of the caves of the Southwest.

After Lake Cave, we ventured a bit further south to the biggest show cave in Western Australia: Jewel Cave. Here we all had lots of fun exploring and learning all about all the very many different cave formations, including stalactites, stalagmites, helictites, pendulites, straws, flowstone, columns, cave coral, shawls, and some others that despite a lot of practice reciting them, I can't remember now.

And when we weren't caving, we decided to venture into the depths of the ocean and the underwater observatory at the very end of the Busselton Jetty (at 2 kms, the world's longest wooden jetty).

For me, this wasn't quite as remarkable as the caves, but it was pretty cool spotting crabs, star fish, and pretty fish swimming around the coral-covered pylons that support the jetty.

And Ollie showed his true cowboy soul when he climbed atop this beer cow at the Colonnial Brewery in Cowaramup.