Week 504 - Tonebridge, Western Australia

We apologise for our blog being late this week, but we have been busy, busy, busy.
Eight days ago, our first stop was Herron Point, a very crowded popular campground, just south of Mandurah.  We were on our journey from Wandi to Bridgetown.

Our second stop, Peter and Judi's place just south of Bunbury.  We were made very welcome by these West Australian Highway Wanderers.

A camp spot through the looking glass - 
Fellow Highway Wanderers, Peter and Judi 
gave us a warm welcome at Bunbury on the 
way to the Blues at Bridgtown Festival.

Our third stop was a rendezvous with Maxine and Rob at Greenbushes.  We then convoyed to arrive at the Showgrounds at Bridgetown.  We were the first ones there and eventually became surrounded by hundreds of campers.

Greenbushes Cricket Pavilion - 
A lovely free camp spot 

The Bridgetown Blues - This is just one of the 
campgrounds at the Blue at Bridgetown Festival.

The Blues at Bridgetown Festival was full on.  There was half a dozen or so venues, all pumping out a mixture of bluesy, energetic rock music.  Some good, some absolutely excellent. The musicians were very talented and sometimes very entertaining with their antics on stage, of course, all musically based.  The music was loud and sometimes absolutely deafening.

Lest we forget! - We were honoured to be 
visitors at the Bridgetown Cenotaph. 
The proceedings were very emotional.

We volunteered at the ticket office for the first two days and had to juggle babysitting the dog as officially dogs were not allowed.  Rusti was well behaved and kept a low profile by not barking.

Electricity is the future - In our travels around 
South West Australia, we have come 
across several of these electric car chargers.

A message from the community of 23 - 
The rest area at Tonebridge on the Tone River, 
has been established and maintained 
since 1982 by the residents of Tonebridge. 
Population 23 (2016) 

We have now parted ways with our boozy festival comrades and headed south east to a very quiet, very pretty and very lonely (we are the only ones here) Tonebridge.

Comments

Maxine
2018-11-12

Haha You might have only gone into half a dozen or so but there were many more venues than that.
It was an awesome weekend Uber & thanks for enjoying it with us haha

Jan Mbl
2018-11-12

Sounds Great better than dealing with the HW Shit Fight

one stick 
2018-11-13

keep trying to leave comments but they never show so I'm trying again. Not a lot to say from here.
I actually have friends who live in Bridgetown, lovely little town, can't imagine it with music blaring out!
Let's see if this comment takes Cheers

Leigh
2018-11-13

Lucky you would love to have gone.