What to do? What to do? I decided we should go to Wellington National Park and do a walk to Honeymoon Pool which looked really pretty and then we would play it by ear but the kids were keen to go to Gnomesville (yes it is what you think it is) and Apple Fun Park.
Someone really should have known better than to give me the map. Not sure how it happened but we managed to drive through the national park, which was really pretty but somehow ended up in Collie. Collie is a mining town with very little to offer a tourist. There were simulated mine tours but they only ran at 2pm if there was a guide available (it was currently 10.30). The lady in the visitors centre suggested we go to the rail museum which was open – yeah she should probably check that because we went there and not so much with the open.
Not surprisingly we left Collie and bowed to the majority pressure and went to Gnomesville – I’ll add here that it actually came up as a Point of Interest on the GPS. Gnomesville is basically a corner of a country road where people have left literally thousands of gnomes of all different shapes and sizes doing all manner of ridiculous things – the kids LOVED it.
After going to possibly the tackiest tourist attraction Australia has to offer – where else was there to head but Apple Fun Park. The brouchures advertise it as Western Australia’s largest free fun park. Apparently it was donated to the town of Donnybrook by an anonymous benefactor (also from the brochure). It is a big playground which of course the kids thought was fantastic. We bought some pies at the local bakery and sat in the park and had lunch while the kids played for ages – at least they should sleep well tonight.
When Gnomesville and Apple Fun Park are the best this area can come up with in terms of tourist attractions I would probably skip this area of WA. Looking forward to Busselton tomorrow – we have lots planned to do from there!
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