Perth - Day 10 (Wood & Stone Cafe - San Churro - Amaze Miniature Park - Giants of Mandurah

We parked our car at Mandurah Central and walked to Wood and Stone Cafe for brunch. The restaurant has a nice ambience. I ordered Wood & Stone waffle while my partner ordered Special creamy garlic prawns and orange juice. Mine is a sweet and savory dish consist of buttermilk fried chicken, waffle, smoked maple, bacon and bean mascarpone. The sauce taste weird to me and waffle is slightly crispy but dense. Apart from that, bacon is soft and chewy. Fried chicken is good but overall I don't really enjoy the combination of sweet and savory. My partner's orange juice tastes sour and bitter. Whereas for his dish, there's nothing to hype about it.

Total bill - $ 52

Wood and Stone Cafe

Restaurant ambience

Today's special

Tap water and orange juice - $ 7

Special creamy garlic prawns - $ 18

Wood & Stone waffle - $ 27

Address:

Wood and Stone Cafe

2/38 Mandurah Terrace,

Mandurah WA 6210,

Australia

Tel: (08) 9535 3923

After brunch we strolled along the Mandurah Foreshore. There's a lovely playground overlooking the river and small children can hop on the Mandurah Tourist Fun Train (Mini Toot). You can buy tickets either from the Mini Toot driver or from the Tourist Information Office.

Mandurah Foreshore

Eastern Foreshore Reserve Playground

Tourist Fun Train Company

Mandurah

We had our favourite churros at San Churros, just 6 minutes (450m) walking distance from Wood and Stone Cafe. I ordered churros for one and a glass of mango fruit smoothies. Churros for one comes with 3 churros dusted with cinnamon sugar and 1 dip cup of milk chocolate. There's 8 types of dip cup for you to choose from - milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, cookie butter, vegan milk chocolate, choc-hazelnut, salted caramel or dulce de Leche. Mango fruit smoothies is refreshing and taste good.

San Churro

Churros for one - $ 10.95 & Mango fruit smoothies - $ 8.50

Address:

San Churro Chocolateria

Shop 4/73, Mandurah Terrace,

Mandurah WA 6210,

Australia

Amaze Miniature Park is approximately 10 minutes drive (7.3km) from Mandurah. It's a wonderful park with over 70 miniature buildings (most of the buildings are exact replicas of well known historic buildings from Abingdon Village which is the oldest town in England), model trains, hedge maze over 7 feet tall, running grass maze, secret garden, 12 hole mini golf, Lego display and Tiny Teapot Cafe.

We reached there around 2pm and took around 2 hours to explore the park. We went in the hedge maze twice in order to find the 6 hidden letters but we only found 5. :( What I enjoyed most was the 12 hole mini golf. I've never picked up a Club before and this is the first time I'm playing golf. I compete with my partner and I won! I was lucky enough to strike a hole in one for hole 8 par 2 while he needs 9 strikes to complete that hole. So for the rest of the day he had to look at my "proud face". :)

Admission fee (includes unlimited mini golf):

a) Adult - $ 15

b) Concession - $ 13

c) Child - $ 12

d) Under 3 - free

Amaze Miniature Park

Hedge Maze

Hidden letters

Spotted a shingleback skink

The birthplace of William Shakespeare

Anne Hathaway's Cottage (Home of William Shakespeare's wife before her marriage)

Mary Arden's House (Shakespeare's mother)

Hall's Croft - Stratford-Upon-Avon (owned by William Shakespeare's daughter, Susanna Hall)

Abingdon Miniature Village

Fairy Garden

Abingdon Market Place Shops

Fairy Garden

Secret Garden

Running Grass Maze

Amaze Miniature Golf

Hole 1 par 3 and hole 2 par 2

Hole 2 par 2

Hole 3 par 2

Hole 4 par 1

Hole 5 par 3

Hole 6 par 2

Hole 7 par 2

Hole 8 par 2

Hole 9 par 2

Hole 10 par 2

Hole 11 par 2

Hole 12 par 2

Mini golf score card

Train Town

St. Nicholas Church

Staircase Cottage

Miniature Village

Train Town

Old Anchor Inn

Metal Sculpture

Train Town

Miniature Village

Golf Club

Miniature Village

Watermill and The Tower of Hercules

Eiffel Tower

Irish Farm Cottage

Garden Lake (fish and feeding)

Blaker Street Brighton UK

Honington Cottage

Amaze Miniature Park

St. Mary's Church Wherstead, Suffolk

Bayleaf Farmhouse

Miniature Village

Picnic area

Lego Exhibit

Tiny Teapot Cafe

Address:

Amaze Miniature Park

24, Husband Road,

Barragup WA 6069,

Australia

Opening hours: Wednesday to Saturday (regular hours) - 9.30am to 4pm

Monday to Saturday (school holidays) - 9.30am to 4pm

Closed on Sunday / bad weather

While we were at Mandurah Foreshore earlier, we went to Mandurah Visitor Centre to get more information regarding the Giants of Mandurah. They gave us a booklet and basically the task is to find all the 6 wooden sculptures Giants hidden throughout Mandurah built by Thomas Dambo, a Danish recycle artist. It's a free to view outdoor expedition and you need to collect all the clues along the way to reveal the location of the final Giant.

Our first stop is at Coodanup Foreshore (-32.562423, 115.747890) and we need to find Vivi Cirkelstone. It's an easy trail with lots of shady trees and takes around 5 minutes walking from the starting point which is at the car park (550m round trip). We found Vivi Cirkelstone on all fours in a crawling position, tummy on the ground with its hands stretched out scratching the ground.

Vivi Cirkelstone

Coodanup Foreshore

Vivi Cirkelstone

Wooden sculpture

Coodanup Foreshore

Next, we drove to Wannanup (-32.606422, 115.652001) to look for Seba's Song. It's an easy trail and takes around 10 minutes walking from the starting point which is at the car park (1.2km round trip). We spotted Seba's Song looking out to sea.

Seba's Song

Wannanup

Spotted Seba's Song

Wooden sculpture

Seba's Song

Wannanup

On the way back to the car park

Among all the 6 Giants, this is my favourite. Santi Iko is located at Koolyininap (Halls Head) (-32.537630, 115.690405). Trail surface is bitumen and there's short steep hill sections. It takes around 10 minutes walking from the starting point which is at the car park (1.3km round trip). The view is simply breathtaking. We waited for the sunset before we left to Mandurah for our dinner.

Santi Ikto

Play ground

Wooden sculpture

Trail to find Santi Ikto

Spotted Santi Ikto

Beautiful beach

Santi Ikto

Sunset at Koolyininap

Beautiful beach

Sunset at Koolyininap

Beach

We head back to Mandurah Foreshore and had our dinner at Cicerello. Food is good and I like their calamari. We ordered spicy crumbed fish comes with fish fillet, crumbed in spicy flavoured crumbs and seafood tray comes with 1 piece of fish, 3 prawns, 3 squid rings, 1 crabstick, served with chips and coleslaw.