RichieB80

Having left our royal friends at the Hutt River Province. We travelled up the North West Coastal Highway, where we turned off to visit Shark Bay, A world heritage area, where some of the earliest living organisms are found. Shark Bay is also home to a very diverse marine life, including Dugongs, Dolphins, sharks and turtles. On the land they are trying to reintroduce animals such as the Bilby whose population is now on the increase in the shark bay area. On our way into the area we stop at the old telegraph station at Hamlin pool. Where we once again in search of the illusive stromatalites. Thankfully we found some more information about what stromatalites are all about. They are tiny organisms that helped life on earth begin and evolve due the oxygen they created. ... read more

Having finished working at Dandaragan about a week ago. We Finally had Jessie ready to leave Soulhaven. It was nice to be back on the road, just a shame the weather was horrible, the wind was howling and the rain lashing down. We popped in to see Ledge point on the way to Lancelin, not really a lot to see there so carried on our way to Lancelin. Where we camped the night and also enjoy a meal out at the local pub to celebrate being back on the road. The following day we attempted to drive the track from Lancelin to Cervantes. Keen to try out our 4WD skill we headed up in to the sand dunes to try and find the start of the track. On the third sand dune in we almost came ... read more

Well… This is a hard entry to write because working on the olive farm we have learnt so much, met so many people and had so much fun its hard to know where to start. I guess from were I left off on my last entry. We have been taught to drive all manner of vehicles from a quad bike to the Collosus olive harvester. We have made some great friends and having a lot of fun along the way. Zoe and I were primarily the tractor drivers on the day shift, working from seven am to seven pm. These hours were hard especially as we had a forty five minute commute to and from so getting up at five in the morning when it’s cold (yes it gets cold in Australia too) and dark wasn’t ... read more

After about a week of living in hostels Zoe and i were to move down to Freemantle and then spend a week on Rottnest Island, or so the plan was anyway. We moved out of our hostel and jumped on the train to "Freeo", only to arrive and discover there was nowhere to stay. Even if we were to travel to Rottnest there and then, there wasn't even a camping pitch for us. short of getting a hotel for much much more than we could afford we were out of options. We later found out that it was the Scarbrough lifesaving championships and there was a big V8 car race on on the same weekend so every man, woman, child and their dog had decended upon perth and freemantle. Thankfully we had made contact with ... read more

Well the plane journey was pretty uneventful (just as a plane journey should be), I did get a whole double seat to myself so I had to make the most of it and spread myself out making the most of my cattle class ticket. still it made very little difference to the amount of sleep I got as I didn't manage to get much more than 2 hours. Although when I arrived at my transfer destination Hong Kong I went to buy a coffee to revive my weary head only to find in my haste to be too organized I had left all my bank cards in the scanner back at my parents house in sunny Whitstable! OOPS! So I was flying to Australia with 30 dollars (Australian (about 20 quid)) and 17 dollars 30 ... read more