We stayed at Busselton for seven days to get a break from travelling and also it was a good base to explore Geographe Bay.
Busselton has a jetty which is two km long, the town was a leading port in the timber export trade and because of the very shallow water the jetty was extended over time to accommodate ships with a deeper draught.
When the town was no longer needed as a port, the jetty got into dis-repair. The W.A. government were going to pull it down but the town agreed to take it on and have since raised enough money to keep it maintained. There is still al lot of work to be done to restore it to it’s original state.
Steel reinforcement has been added to the original timber construction.
An “oarsome” weather vane.
A good place for sunsets.
At the end of the jetty there is an underwater observatory with eleven viewing windows 8m below the surface. There are over 300 different species to be viewed from here. Unfortunately I discovered that it was closed after walking the 2km to get to it. The reason it was closed was because we had a very heavy storm with winds of over 100kmh the night before and the sea was so churned up it was impossible to see through the mud.
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