Parry beach is such a beautiful place with good fish to catch and brilliant surf with good surfers to watch.  It is in the far south west of Western Australia and very remote.

We set off from Yalingup on Monday morning where we had been staying with friends of my mums.  We arrived quite late after the long journey, about 5 hours driving, and made our dinner, washed and headed to bed. Dad slept outside in the hammock suspended about 6 foot off the floor that he tied up in the peppermint trees, mum slept inside one of the tents and Fin and I shared the other tent. It was a rough night sleep for all of us so we had a very lazy day the next day.

The first day we went down to the beach and chilled. Dad was very tired and slept in the car.   Fin, on the other hand, was the opposite of dad and was doing all the activities we had (fishing, kayaking,surfing,body boarding,playing ball games and playing with the frisbee). I tried to get in the sea but it was freezing, I got up to my waist. Mum didn’t want to go in either so we played a ball game together and when I tried to go in the sea Mum was doing her mindfulness. When I got out of the sea I did some artwork; a watercolour painting of the sea and cliffs. We decided to go back to the campsite for lunch. So we got in the car and headed back for lunch we read our books while Mum was asleep. Fin and Dad went fishing and Fin caught a skippy (it was the first fish he had ever caught AND it was big).

Our last day we went to Green Pool which was a beautiful beach. It was a beach and a pool with big rocks and amazing fish. There was even a swimming lesson for children taking place in the sea! Although the water was freezing we still got in.  I found out that the sea is actually the Southern Ocean and the next land to us was Antartcica, so no wonder it was chilly!  We borrowed a kayak and paddled around the bay, we jumped of rocks and didn’t sit down until lunch. Next to this beach there was another bay  called elephant cove and the rocks there looked like elephants. Fin jumped of one of them (they were very tall).

The next day we decided to pack up and leave as there was a very windy and rainy storm and so we drove back to Fremantle which took about 5 hours.

It was a good time away without any wifi or electricity and in the middle of nowhere.

It was a proper adventure and an education to us all; mum learnt how to enjoy a cold shower and has had them ever since, Dad learnt not to sleep in a hammock in the rain,  Fin learnt how to catch a fish and cook it on an open fire and I learnt about the southern ocean and how to cook two marshmallows at once and sandwich them with chocolate biscuits.

Summer