Bunbury, WA 2004
Visiting Bunbury, in the South West of Western Australia, makes a quick and delightful holiday. Bunbury is known as the Gateway to the South West and is one of the larger towns in the area. Being only two and a half to three hours from Perth, it makes an ideal quick get away for the weekend or long weekend. Our 2004 Bunbury holiday was planned for 3 days and 2 nights.
The decision to make a trip to Bunbury in 2004 was a on-the-spot decision. We happened to choose a long weekend, which meant that accommodation was not so readily available. After a few frantic phone calls, I decided to enlist in the help of a travel agent to book a room for two nights at The Admiral Motel.
This holiday was a glutinous one. We spent a lot of our time eating at fabulous restaurants in Bunbury. Our favourite being the VAT-2 restaurant on Jetty Road. VAT-2 offered fabulous views and fabulous food, the sticky date pudding was possibly the best I ever tasted. We also went to Barbados on Bonnefoi Avenue and the Ex-Tension on Ocean Drive. Barbados overlooked the bay and Ex-Tension offered a fantastic breakfast with views of the beach.
We didn’t spend all our time eating. We went to the Big Swamp Wildlife Park and took a boat tour to visit the dolphins in Koombana Bay.
The Wildlife Park was fantastic, the admission fees were very reasonable and you could buy food for the animals. We spent most of the time sitting on the grass feeding the kangaroos around us. I managed to come home with a free souvenir, a peacock feather. We like to joke around and say that my partner tackled the peacock while I plucked the feather, but reality was, the feather fell off the peacock and I picked it up.
The dolphin boat tour was amazing. It was my first encounter with dolphins and they just amazed me. They were so curious that they would swim right up to the boat, take a look at us, then swim away. We got some amazing photos and I got a little sunburn.
Although this Bunbury holiday was a quick one, it was relaxing and the perfect get away. We were so impressed with our time in Bunbury that we visited again in February 2005. Read about it in our South West Holiday for 2005.
Added: Page of the best photos taken during the Bunbury trip, 2004.
