While staying at Coronation Beach Noah had a night of vomiting so the next morning it was decided that I should take the Ava and Maya out for the day to try to reduce the chance of them catching whatever it was Noah had.

So I decided that perhaps we should go meet a Prince. A real, fair dinkum Prince. Ava was delighted with this idea as I think she hoped she may see a real “Barbie Princess” and potentially a mermaid as well! (It did all sound a bit far fetched)

So we headed off inland heading for the “Principality of Hutt River”. A real independent state since about 1970 that has its own passports recognised by other countries and Australia (I think reluctantly!), has its own currency and has its own stamps and the list goes on! It has even been officially at war with Australia for 2 days

After driving for an hour or so we arrived in the capital of Nain. The first thing we saw was a giant rock statue of Prince Leonard 1 of Hutts head. A bit like I imagine the Sphinx in Egypt, but a tad smaller? There was a Church, a post office, Govt offices, Historical society etc. Quite fascinating. But if you looked past all the buildings and rolls Royce and flags etc, all you could see was a big grain farm.

After a bit of a look around we found Prince Leonard in the post office and we brought a postcard and some currency for Noah. The Prince was a in his late 80’s and of very sharp mind and after talking to him for a bit, I discovered he had started out as a farmer like me, (that’s as far as the similarities went! He would be doing 9 figure multiplication sums for fun!) but the Aussie Govt. put quotas on the amount of grain he could sell. He had planted way more and argued with Govt. about this and to cut a long story very short, he found a loophole in the constitution and he turned his property into an independent state.  

He also studies subatomic physics. He was contracted to NASA and I was told by others that he was critical in the mission to land men on the moon!

So after bidding farewell to the Prince we went on our way back thought the scrub to home, at Coronation Beach.

You might be wondering if I am considering turning our farm into an independent state and becoming Prince Steve 1 and have my Princess Bec 1?? Not a chance! haha

And you might also be wondering if Ava was happy with meeting the Prince? I don’t think she believes me that we actually met a Prince. In her eyes we met an old farmer!!!!