Nannup WA

What a lovely place to visit, quaint and picturesque, surrounded by forests. The caravan park was only small but clean and quiet with the advantage of being able to walk into the little town and lots of walk trails. The only disappointing feature was in the fact although the caravan park is next to the Blackwood River it was dry because the river has considerable seasonal fluctuations so Dave was unable to kayak.The Blackwood River is 300km long and is the largest river catchment in the Southwest, at 2.35 million hectares it is nearly as large as Belgium. At the end of the street was an oval with stage and covered picnic tables which I suppose are for outdoor events. There was also totum poles which the towns people have made depicting the arts, children, culture and forests, also a path with coloured paving slabs representing Indigenous people. Trudy and Bob, not forgetting Rangi joined us for my birthday and we enjoyed a fantastic lunch at the Blackwood Winery and as we were leaving the owner gave me a bottle of the wine we had been drinking for my birthday....a lovely gesture I thought. I would like to confirm that we had no sightings of the Nannup Tiger for which Nannup's unconfirmed sightings is famous for. The tiger was the largest known carnivorous marsupial and is now officially extinct. It belonged to the same family as the kangaroo, Tasmanian devil and the native cat, so watch out for it if you ever visit Nannup. The weather was superb with no flys or mozzies, in fact we could have stayed there for a few weeks, the only factor being we are wanting to see the rest of the Southwest before we fly to the UK.