You may have started the new year feeling a little ropey. So what will be your cure when you wake with a pounding head, queasy stomach and a million regrets? Ernest Hemingway swore by tomato juice and beer; the ancient Sicilians were known to gnaw on dried bull penis and Namibians imbibe buffalo milk. Shake […]

Kids back in school? Sick of labelling stuff yet? Started too many sentences with: “I love my kids, but … After a long, hot summer, there’s only one topic on every parent’s or grandparent’s lips. “Are you ready for the kids to go back to school?” Whenever we ask this question, there’s a pattern to […]

When it comes to great food, wines and beaches, few places match the sheer pleasure of the Margaret River region. Cape Naturaliste’s delicious regional cuisine makes the most of fresh, seasonal vegetables, plentiful seafood, grass-fed lamb and beef, free-range chickens and organic eggs, local cheeses, charcuterie and amazingly good coffee – accompanied by some of […]

We're going on an egg hunt. Come and join the fun! Where could the eggs be hiding? Let's find them everyone! Pick up a Harvest Basket and start your egg-citing Easter adventure with some choccy fun! Prepare to bump into the DunsBros friends on the way - more laughs, more dancing, more fun, more DunsBros […]

It’s autumn in the Harvest Garden, the season of crisp evenings, falling leaves and preparing the garden for winter - but no throwing in the trowel for us. Autumn in the Harvest Garden is about beginnings; the time for delicious root vegetables, eccentric striped beetroots, idiosyncratic carrots, off-centre broccoli and outlandish cauliflower. There is endless […]

Help Baudin, Freycinet, Hamelin and Leeuwin celebrate the important role the Capes Naturaliste and Leeuwin played in WA’s history! Cape Naturaliste, the northernmost point of the Leeuwin-Naturaliste Ridge, has a rich history, starting with the Wardandi Aboriginal people who called it Kwirreejeenungup, meaning "the place with the beautiful view".  In 1801. French explorer Nicolas Baudin […]

Though spring can be chilly on the Naturaliste Cape, the return of the bright and gently warming sun wakes dormant plants and seeds from their slumber, coaxes birds out to build their nests and beckons to the insects that sheltered through winter in undergrowth, nooks and crannies to emerge and flit about in the cool […]

Few things are more beautiful than spring blossom and the cherry tree walk means having the pleasure of witnessing the blossoms every spring. Just before spring, gnarled trees, barren and ignored for most of the year, burst into bloom like fountains turned suddenly on. The cherry blossoms hit like a hurricane, cherry plums already broken […]

Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer Those days of soda and pretzels and beer (well, we won't because, you know, carbs) Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer Dust off the sun and moon and sing a song of cheer Summer is here. The epitome of something for everyone, the […]