Well we are waiting for our plane back to the bay. its been a very busy 9 days. We tasted wine and beer and cheeze and been in caves, and atop a bell tower. 

This picture was an art shot done while we were at lunch at a beautiful wine estate Leeuwin.  We had lunch at Vasse Felix, Leeuwin. Laureance, Wills Domaine and Amberley. We tasted wine at 18 cellar doors. 

We started seeing caves in the morning before the cellar doors opened. the first was Mamoth Cave and well we were there we heard

about the other caves but until we ran into Jules at Xanadu and he was so passionate about Lake cave and how it was  living cave, we hadn't set on it. 

the next morning before the tastings of the day we went down down down into it. It was beautiful. here's a shot of the light show in the cave. very special.  Here are the long thin "straws" hanging from the roof they grow about one inch every 25 years. 

Newbie  in the stocks at the round house goal in Freemantle. It was the first prison but only 8 cells. Right on the harbour. 

This is the Swan Bells tower we lucked out and arrived just ast they started and hour of ringing all sorts of different changes. I was very cool. It had been purpose built to allow visitors to see the ringers and the bells on different levels. they even have closed ciruit TV so if you are on the bell level you can see the ringers and vice versa. way cool. They had a deck above all that had great veiws and you can see that there was a open, glass sided gantry around the bell tower side (facing us in the picture) and Guess what the whole building moved with the wight of the bells swinging. It was very un-nerving but really fun.

more late Chris