Hillary's Harbour, Perth
Yesterday, Saturday, we stopped at the dolphin interpretive centre in Bunbury in the morning. When we arrived they said “you just missed the dolphins,” so we went into the inside displays and looked at them for a while. We then went back out, and just as we got to the shore one of the volunteers announced “there’s one now,” and within a few seconds about three different dolphins showed up. We waded into the water to about mid-thigh and watched them in the water as they came very close.
We’d been there for about five minutes when I realized that I had the cell phone in my shorts pocket. Normally we haven’t been carrying the phone since we really have no one that will call us, but today we did because we thought we would try and phone the Hurley’s in Perth to let them know when we’d arrive. I moved the phone out of my shorts, but it was already wet. It would not turn on when we tried it. We let it dry out in the window of the motorhome, and eventually it would turn on, but nothing else. You couldn’t turn it off without removing the battery, and it never completed the boot cycle, so it looks like that phone is now defunct.
We walked part way around the inlet in Bunbury, then ate lunch before we drove to Perth. We got to the Hurley’s (Mavis’s friends, whom we had never met before) in mid afternoon. We visited a bit, and they were good enough to give us an old cell phone, which worked when we put our SIM into it. That is very nice of them, as we were hoping that we wouldn’t have to buy a new phone for just one month before we leave.
They drove us to see a number of the beaches. We stopped at Hillary’s Harbour, where we walked around to view the shops, and bought gelato (which was very good). There is a very protected swimming area here, and a marina with a number of boats for sale (prices varied from half a million dollars to twenty thousand dollars, so there was a great variety). After that we came back to their house and had a very nice barbecue supper.