Cowaramup
The name is believed to be derived from Aboriginal word cowara, meaning purple-crowned lorikeet. Locals from the region often refer to the town as "Cowtown", a reference to the use of "cow" in the town's name and its history of dairy farming.
Cowaramup is home to a herd of 42 life sized fibreglass Friesian cows and calves wandering the streets, parks and shops of the village.
The cows love having their photographs taken and often dress up for any occasion.
A community project supported by the local Lions Club, the udderly delightful bovines mooved into the town in July 2012.
Each year in July, we celebrate our cows with a huge Cow Town Birthday Party. Deja Moo – A LegendDairy Country Fair is a wonderful extravaganza where locals and visitors come together for a day of cowabunga fun and frivolity.
A nice lady was just placing these wreaths on this one - for the second time - some cow-faced idiot nicked the first lot.
As you can imagine for a tourist town there is plenty of cow inspired tat in the gift shops - but this place has a certain clever ring to it.
Not Oz birds
Our housesitters have set up a webcam on our feeders at home - these are some of the results and if you click on the photos you can see the amazing details.
Nate has to rival Graham for wildlife photographer of the year. Just a bit nervous that he and Mark won't want to leave in February - they seem to be loving Beck Head.
This is all I can do for the time being - dolphins, whales and possums already catered for. Goannas, spoonbills, purple swamphen, white faced heron, indeterminate flowers.
And we went back this year to see if we could see it again - no luck but this is a photo of his favourite lunch spot - tell tale scales and fish tails underneath. So he is around somewhere.
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House sitters doing pretty well with the birdcam pix... Go fellas! On that subject, we did have one other inquiry - so two in all - to our house offer, but it came four days before we were due to fly so would have been a bit of a scramble. Our friend Mike seems to be doing fine keeping our four (yes, two more have adopted us) cats company.
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