New Norcia

Without any real planning, we headed a couple of hundred kilometers North East from Perth to the monastery town of New Norcia. This was established by the Benadictine Monks in the 1800's and has operated as a monastery ever since. While there were several schools established here (the buildings are all still there), it now just operates as a monastery, tourist destination, bakery, and farm.
While we did a tour of all the old buildings, the real highlight was being there for Easter Sunday. We a few hundred meters away from the church and monastery and really enjoyed the chanting of the Easter Vigil which began at 4.30am. The girls were all up early to search for Easter eggs, and were pleased to see that Easter bunny had found us in this obscure location. With a belly full of chocolate we then walked up to church where we enjoyed mass with the monks and some of the local community. They were all very hospitable, and even invited us to join them for tea and hot cross buns afterwards.
Photos below are at New Norcia-
1: The church
2: Our Easter egg hunt around the camper
3: Dividing up the eggs
4: more eggs from the monks after church
5: the girls in the flour mill