4 Stray Katz: Yoga at Yallingup

What luck! Yoga was being held on the grassy foreshore at Yallingup beach every morning in January. I took advantage of being in such close proximity and walked to the classes every morning for the 3 days we stayed. An 1.5 hour yoga class while listening to the waves and feeling the crisp sea air was such a blissful way to start each day. I realised how much I have missed yoga and am now trying to incorporate it more into our travels whenever I can (though I did try to do some this morning at another spot and Jackson decided to feed my blueberries whilst I was bent over backwards in bridge pose!).

Yoga with a view (and the added challenge of wind and sloped grass!)

Yallingup was one of the original surfing Meccas and it is still very popular with the surfing crew, as well as everyone else, because of the lovely beaches and great waves. It has still retained its small beach town vibe and we loved it but could only extend our stay to 3 nights as it is usually booked out all summer but some people had gone home because of the rain which was the only reason we managed to get there in the first place. The weather was still stormy on the first day but cleared and we had two lovely beach days where we snorkelled, played in the rock pools, explored Canal Rocks (where Daniel got a huge Cuttlefish and Crayfish) watched the sun set over the ocean and spent a lot of time on the adventure playground on the foreshore. We checked out Busselton on the stormy day and could also see why this town is one of the most popular holiday destinations in WA.

The South West pocket of WA has so much to offer but after spending nearly a month in this small region of the state we decided to continue of journey along the south coast so we left on Saturday morning headed for a remote beach east of Augusta.