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Our Last Day.

And so it comes to an end, the last day of our tour today with our final ride from Ensenada to Los Angeles.

We headed to the border via the Valley of Guadalupe and the wine making region. Mexican wines are growing in quality and becoming a trend among wine enthusiasts. Stopped for a break at a Government run wine museum, Museo de la Vid Y El Vino, which would have been interesting if the information was written in English instead of Spanish. Onward to the town of Tecate and the border crossing, much quieter here than Tijuana. Within 15 mins we were all through and it was not long before we were once again heading down a mountain range with all of it’s twisties (our tour guides term for the winding roads and switchbacks).

Fences here are usually made out of big sticks here it’s wooden pallets.

Colourful garden pots and assorted ornaments

Just one of California’s concrete freeways

Headed out to Grimwade campsite on the Bibbulmun Track yesterday with a friend from camera club and we happened to pass by this old church in Thomson Brook. This was my first trip out to this area but will definitely not be my last. Lovely rolling green hills plus much much more.

Here’s a little bit of history about the church. The St. Thomas Anglican Church was architecturally designed (by Eustace Cohen) for the Thomson Family in 1908 and cost 475 pounds to build on their property. The bricks were made on site. The ceiling, floor and most of the furniture, designed by Cohen, was all made of local jarrah. This church is one of a small number of churches in Western Australia that were privately constructed and has been almost continuously used by the Anglican community and in more recent times is also used for wedding and other special occasions.

All images taken with either 100mm or 50mm prime lens and processed in Lightroom with a Vintage Preset