Thursday in Sunny Australia
We awoke to find that was pouring with rain, in fact this is not true, we were awoken by the water cascading from a gutter outside our room, which could not cope with the rain. To be honest, you put your head out of the door, shivered and retracted it quickly. The sky had the look of an impending Atlantic storm.
Breakfast was in the room, and we managed, no small feat in itself, to set off the  smoke alarm, by placing the toaster right under it. We stopped it bleating, by opening the front door of our room and letting copious amounts of fresh air in.
After we had loaded our vehicle, we were off down the coast, stopping at Yallingup to take photos in a  force nine gale, nothing like being hardy, we are definitely not complaint poms.
After that we set off  down the coast road to Canal Rocks, impressive with the sea crashing over them    and us hardly being able to stand, in a force nine gale. The pictures will make it look as though we were there on a balmy summer's day.
We explored Margaret River, which again was a town awaiting an influx of tourists, before going to Prevelly beach where we had lunch, locked safely in our car, as it was far too windy to eat out doors.
In the afternoon we drove through large forests to arrive in Pemberton, where we explored a waterfall and booked into our hotel.
Now bearing in mind we arrive with one large suitcase, is it beyond the realms of common sense not to give us a room up a flight of stairs and at the farthest end of the corridor?
We have arrived in the coldest start of a summer ever to have been recorded in Western Australia. It would be fair to say that I have beeen frozen all day. Towns recorded their lowest ever temperatures for December last night and here we are as tourists wearing shorts and desperately seeking some relief from the wind. However, as I understand it has been snowing in England today I must stop this welter of criticism.
The only snow I have seen is the wonderful Xmas display in the bar of the hotel we are staying in. To say that they have gone over the top with the spray snow would be an understatement of considerable proportions.