Where: Paruna
Wildlife Sanctuary, Gidgegannup
When: September
2016
My Adventure
Companions: The whole MAP family (minus Velcro Dog) plus a few Hike it Baby
Familes
“Where are we going this weekend?”
Hiking on the weekends seems to have become the norm for us
at the moment. To be fair, it’s spring and a great time to be out and about.
The weather is good, the sun shines most of the time and the landscape is a
stunning array of colours. We get delicious breakfast takeout from a little
shop down the road and trundle off to our meet location. I get pretty excited when
other people turn up to hike with us and love meeting other families who are as
enthusiastic as I am about getting outside.
This weekend we were back at Paruna Wildlife Sanctuary. We
had five other Hike it Baby families giving us a total eight adults and eight
children aged between 9 months (our Giant Baby) and ten years old. It was going
to be a very different experience from my first time there!
After the last family finally arrived, we did some
introductions and then trundled off to explore the little Possum Trail. We saw
all manner of toddler and child approved things on the trail from ducks and
bees to different flowers and gum nuts. I was impressed at how well everyone
stuck together, considering the differing levels of walking abilities and the
rocky terrain. Mini Monkey clearly had not recovered from his bout of tummy
upset on Thursday night and had an inconsolable meltdown. Mr MAP finally
decided that it would be better to take him back to the car to calm him down so
packed him in the carrier and turned around. The Giant Baby and I carried on
with the rest of the group but soon decided to turn around as we had reached
our half way point in time. After misjudging toddler tolerance at our walk in
John Forest National Park the other weekend, I wasn’t about to make the same
mistake again.
On our return, we found a mostly recovered Mini Monkey and
Mr MAP starting the picnic lunch. A couple of the families were able to stay so
we had a lovely picnic in the sunshine and then the kiddos threw rocks in the
stream until nap time called.
Comments Mini Monkey:
WAHHHHHHHHHH *sniffle sniffle* WAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Opening Hours: gate
open 24hrs per day (May to November)
Cost: $5 per
person.
Bonus Adventure:
After the drama of yesterday, we decided that we needed to
do something a little low key the next day. We had a nice little walk around
Freo, looking at all the boats and seagulls. Boats, fish and birds are all
pretty interesting to Mini Monkey at the moment so he was satisfied. The icing
on the cake for him were the massive fish tanks which line the restaurant area
at Cicerello’s. There are lots of different types of fish to see from star-fish
to little sharks and is a great way to keep little (and big) people entertained
whilst waiting.
Comments from The Giant
Baby: Tula rides are still awesome but mum forgot my socks today. My feet
are cold. [sorry bub]
Website: www.cicerellos.com.au/
Opening Hours: Fishing
boat harbour open all hours. Cicerello’s open 9am-8.30pm daily.
Cost: access to the
fishing boat harbour is free.
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