The Everydayhood, Perth (2026)

Adriana | Motherhood + Childhood • Perth

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06/09/2026

Our second visit to John Forrest National Park — but our first time seeing the waterfalls flowing. 💦🌿

And what a difference it made.

We brought the bikes this time, which meant we could cover so much more of the park, then leave them at the bike racks near the waterfalls and explore on foot.

Hovea Falls was cascading over its huge granite rock sheet, National Park Falls was flowing over its dramatic 20m rock face, the spring wildflowers were out and even the creek through the nature playground was flowing. 🌼

But for Kai, some of the best parts were the little things in between.

Throwing rocks into the water.
Shoes off and toes dipped into the creek.
Finding the Fairy Village tucked away along the way. ✨
Stopping to explore whenever something caught his eye.

It was such a different experience from our first visit — and bringing the bikes made it so easy to see more without feeling like we had to rush from one spot to the next.

A few handy things to know:

💦 Hovea Falls is around 800m east of the main picnic area
💦 The National Park Falls walk is a 2.5km loop along Jane Brook and the Railway Reserves Heritage Trail
🚲 Bike racks near the waterfalls made stopping to explore really easy
🌿 Winter and spring are the best seasons to catch the waterfalls flowing

Only our second visit and there’s already so much we still want to come back and explore.

If John Forrest National Park has been on your list, it is looking pretty special right now. 🤎

📍 John Forrest National Park | Perth Hills

02/09/2026

The older I get, the more I realise how many different versions of me can exist at the same time.

I love slow mornings, nature walks and the little ordinary moments.

But I can also get swept up in being busy, saying yes, making plans and trying to fit far too much into a day.

I like to feel organised and know what’s happening, yet so much of life still feels like I’m making it up as I go.

I can feel confident and still second-guess myself.
Love routine and desperately need to break it.
Love being home and need to get out.
Love the life I have deeply and still want to keep growing within it.

And maybe none of that makes me inconsistent.

Maybe it just makes me human.

I think for a long time I felt like I had to work out exactly who I was and then stay there.

But I don’t think we’re meant to be one thing.

We’re allowed to change our minds.
To outgrow things.
To contradict ourselves.
To want different things in different seasons.
To keep discovering parts of ourselves we didn’t know were there.

I’m still figuring a lot of it out.

Still learning what I want to hold onto, what I want to let go of and what kind of life actually feels good to me.

Maybe all of these versions are the real me.

And yes… I’m still winging it far more often than it probably looks from the outside. 😂🤎

01/09/2026

We’d never even heard of Bernard Park until we spotted it on our way to Noah's Park Farm and decided to see where the trails would take us. 🌿

And it turned out to be such a peaceful little find.

Multiple winding bush tracks to wander, wildflowers in full bloom, kookaburras and rainbow lorikeets in the trees, and some pretty cute neighbours along the way too — cows on one side, then alpacas, sheep and goats on another. 🦙🐄

Kai balanced along fallen logs, stopped to smell the flowers and loved spotting all the nearby farm animals and tractors as we walked.

We wandered for around 30 minutes, but the tracks wind around and meet back up, so you can easily choose how long you want to explore for.

A few things to know before you go:

🌿 mostly flat, wide gravel tracks with some sandy sections

🌿 best suited to walking kids or a carrier rather than a pram

🌿 shade varies throughout

🌿 fenced reserve with an entrance from Bernard Road South

🌿 only a handful of roadside parking spots

🌿 no toilets, seating or picnic facilities, so plan ahead

It’s not somewhere I’d necessarily drive across Perth for, but if you live north of the river — particularly around Yanchep, Carabooda or the surrounding suburbs — it’s such a lovely little spot to have on your radar.

Or tack it onto a visit to Noah's Park Farm for an extra little nature wander afterwards. 🌿

Quiet, simple and plenty for little eyes to notice along the way. 🤎

📍 Bernard Park, Carabooda

29/08/2026

Some Father’s Day gifts are sentimental.

And some are for the dad who loves the beach… but would very much like the beach to stay at the beach. 😂

That is my husband.

The beach is genuinely one of his happy places — and very much one of Kai’s too. The difference is that Dad likes to leave the sand behind, while Kai seems determined to bring it home from his hair right down to his toes. 🤎

So when I heard the story behind HappyasGaz, I had to laugh.

Happy as Gaz was started by another WA dad after years of beach days with his three kids — and being equally fed up with the amount of sand making its way into the family car.

His solution? The Beach Brush.

It’s compact enough to keep in the car or beach bag, with natural fibre bristles that are gentle on skin and make brushing off dry sand so easy.

And watching our resident clean freak brush down our resident sand monster before getting back into the car?

Possibly the most him Father’s Day collaboration we could have done. 😂🤎

A very practical little Father’s Day find for the beach-loving, sand-in-the-car-hating dad.

🎁 Kindly gifted

28/08/2026

I I think I knew pretty quickly that this was going to be our kind of place. 🤎

Our first morning at The Little Farmers Club @ Noah's Park Farm at Noah's Park Farm wasn’t really about any one activity.

It was the freedom to simply be a child.

Kai could wander, stop, notice, change direction and stay with something for as long as it held his interest.

There was a gentle rhythm — a welcome song, a story and thoughtful invitations to play throughout the farm and studio — but no expectation that every child needed to experience the morning in the same way.

At one point, 'The Wonky Donkey' was being read for this week’s donkey theme while Kai listened from the very top of the wooden A-frame. Nobody asked him to come down and sit with the group.

That tiny moment summed it up for me.

Learning looked like feeding goats, watching a farrier care for a donkey’s hooves, seeing lambs feed from their mother, finding worms in the dirt, making imaginary hot chocolates, creating with real wool, climbing, balancing and pretending.

Real-world learning, at a child’s pace.

The studio is warm, whimsical and a little nostalgic, filled with books, wooden toys, natural loose parts and open-ended materials. And even as the grown-up, the whole morning felt peaceful — a small group of families, coffee and tea waiting in the studio, and no sense that we needed to rush through it.

Melissa and Laura created The Little Farmers Club from something they wished had existed when their own children were little, with Farmer Brad helping bring the real farm and animal experiences into the mornings.

You can feel that heart behind it.

Less rushing.
Less directing.
More noticing.
More connection.
More childhood.

Kai told me he never wanted to leave, squeezed in one last play on the digger, and eventually wandered back to the car after I promised:

“We’re coming back next week.” 🤎

🌿 The Little Farmers Club at Noah’s Park Farm
Ages 1–5
Tuesday, Wednesday + Thursday
9:30–11am
Maximum 12 children
$45 per child, with one caregiver included

Address

Perth, WA

Website

https://linktr.ee/perthtoddleradventures

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