{"id":2894,"date":"2015-12-28T22:03:51","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T12:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/?p=2894"},"modified":"2015-12-28T22:03:51","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T12:03:51","slug":"margaret-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/2015\/12\/28\/margaret-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Margaret River"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finally, an eventful Christmas! I got the opportunity to head down to the south of Perth and into the famed Margaret River region. Being about a 3 hour drive, the weather was significantly cooler which is why it’s a great fresh produce area.<\/p>\n

Along the way, there lies the southern hemisphere’s longest wooden jetty – Busselton Jetty. It’s about 2k long with a train track running all along it. All along the jetty there are heaps of people fishing – we saw whiting and squid being caught. Squid make weird noises when they’re dying upon the jetty….<\/p>\n

The place where I stayed had some lovely sunflowers, as well as a tea house and restaurant\/winery attached. So very nice!<\/p>\n

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And the tea house specialised in lavender products (their lavender ice cream was a let down though), and had this cute little grasshopper dancing away on the window:<\/p>\n

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The restaurant was pretty good – they were closed on Xmas Day and Boxing Day so lunch\/dinner were out of the question, however they served some tasty tea for breakfast!<\/p>\n

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There were wineries everywhere, I stopped at one called Cape Naturaliste vineyards, and their shiraz was actually quite tasty. I wish I could drink alcohol, though. One winery was enough for me, so that’s about it for what people usually come here for.<\/p>\n

The Margaret River town centre was also a quaint little street. There were a few hipster cafes and restaurants which I enjoyed, but nothing that stood out in particular, except some coffee kombucha from a cafe that used their La Marzocco container as a table – that was cute!<\/p>\n

Instead, the highlight of the trip was Yallingup beach, which was about 45 minutes north of the Margaret River. Here’s some lovely beach spam!<\/p>\n

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And a hipster cafe \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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Finally, an eventful Christmas! I got the opportunity to head down to the south of Perth and into the famed Margaret River region. Being about a 3 hour drive, the weather was significantly cooler which is why it’s a great fresh produce area. Along the way, there lies the southern hemisphere’s longest wooden jetty – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[468,789,1278,1655,2078],"class_list":["post-2894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-exploring-wa","tag-i-got-sunburnt","tag-margaret-river","tag-road-trip","tag-waves-are-hard-to-shoot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}