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Perth Our last day in this lovely city. We got back on the bus down into town and walked down to the Jetty to see what trips were going - and booked ourselves on a lunch cruise up the Swan River to a Winery for wine tasting. This gave us 2 hours to spare so we took the free blue cat bus to the closest stop for King’s Park. The bus stopped right outside the hotel that Dave Taylor and I stayed in 16 years ago! Sullivans -and it doesn’t look like it has been painted since! We climbed the 242 [View Full Entry]

TravellersJoy - Margaret & Barry | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: November 23rd 2009 | 18 Views | [diary=455279]

Boat Trip 1
Boat Trip 2
Wine tasting

This is our fourth night in Albany, we decided to stay 4 as the caravan park gave us a deal to pay for 3 and stay 4 nights, and as there is so much to see here we decided to take the deal. The first couple of days and nights in Albany were very very wet, with rain, hail and lots of wind. We figured we were actually experiencing Albany's proper winter, I am just soooo glad we didn't tent again this year!! On the first day we went to see Whale World, which is an ex whaling station that closed [View Full Entry]

DannigirlR - Danielle Ramage | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 2nd 2009 | 64 Views | [diary=414372]

The Gap
Pigmy Blue Whale

Tonight we are at Albany WA. We haven't looked around too much as we only arrived late this afternoon. The caravan park we are staying in is quite nice but quite expensive. Oh well we have stayed in alot of free camping spots, its nice to splash out now and then :). It has been raining off and on for most of the afternoon and then some hail tonight. A lady at the information centre told us Perth has been hammered by high winds and we are expected to get them sometime during the night ........ she said they were 125k [View Full Entry]

DannigirlR - Danielle Ramage | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: June 29th 2009 | 49 Views | [diary=413323]

Bremer Bay
Beautiful Beach

After leaving Esperance, we had a longish drive, stopping overnight at Jerramungup - one of the many towns ending in 'up' in this area - in the aboriginal Noongar language, ‘up’ means ‘place of’. Then it was a similar drive the next day though cattle country, sheep country, and wheat fields as far as the eye could see. As we got closer to Albany, the country changed to tree plantations - mostly eucalypts but a few pine trees. It's nine years since we were in Albany and it seems to have grown no end. It is a pretty and neat town, [View Full Entry]

ValandDoug - Val and Doug | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: June 15th 2009 | 45 Views | [diary=408673]

The main street ends at the waterfront
Some shops in the main street
Silos and beyond them, the woodchipping wharf

A small piece of advice; cruise ships are not fun. Reading the last entry, I remember hoping that the boat would be really excitingly cheesy but sadly it wasn't. It just moved from side to side for ten hours until I got off. The only exciting person I met was an eighteen year old English backpacker who regaled in great detail how many drugs he had in his posssesion and was attempting to smuggle into Melbourne. I avoided eye contact for the rest of the trip just in case he was being monitored. After a rather scary Tiger Airlines flight to [View Full Entry]

thetrekaround - Kate Zarb | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: June 10th 2009 | 22 Views | [diary=407135]


It's now June and we have been back in New Zealand for over 4 months! (seems like forever some days!) Time to round off our travelblog which we didn't quite finish before we flew out of Perth on January 27, 2009, bound for Wellington. Last time we wrote, we were in Perth for Christmas - spent the day with Blu's brother Ross, his wife Laurin and her family. Funny not to be spending it with our kids- first time ever without one or both on the day! Boxing Day we went down to Bunbury to spend the day with niece Ros [View Full Entry]

Kate and Blu in Oz - Kate and Brian Lang | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: June 3rd 2009 | 14 Views | [diary=402210]

Boxing Day at Bunbury
our Jayco Destiny caravan
Kate with 2 other beauties!

Friday 1st May ~ can’t believe it’s May already, where have the last 3 months gone? Anyway had a lovely leisurely hot shower (the first for 3 days!!) then sent last blog before setting off to see T he Natural Bridge and The Gap, both just outside Albany. More superlatives!! The Natural Bridge is a huge bridge of granite some 60 or 70metres long, 30 metres wide and about 30 metres above the waves of the Southern Ocean. Those waves come thundering in below the bridge and shatter themselves on the rocks. Similarly The Gap is a cleft that’s been cut [View Full Entry]

BindyandTony - bindytony | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: May 6th 2009 | 67 Views | [diary=396767]

The Gap
Lyn waiting for the Blow Hole to blow!
Lucky Bay

Saturday 25th April - Stayed at Frank Lipino Memorial rest area last night and on road early this morning. Heading towards Bunbury - did a U turn and took scenic route to Serpentine Dam - wonderful spot - nobody there except for us and lots of tame green parakeets. Bit further on came to a welcome café and viewing point. Very peaceful apart from lovely jazz music from café, Nat King Cole, Dave Brubeck etc. Took coastal route to Bunbury still very quiet bearing in mind that its Anzac Day (public holiday on Monday). Travelled through very dry stock country (still [View Full Entry]

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Published: May 1st 2009 | 122 Views | [diary=395281]

Vassa Felix Winery
Entrance to cave
Stalactites

Awesome day even though I came down with a raging head cold. Where meant to go out to Bluff Knoll in the Stirling Ranges to do some trekking but I softed out. So instead had a looky around the historic main street, and picniced in a park for lunch. Headed out along Frenchman Bay Rd to Frenchman Bay to have a look at Whale World, the old Albany Whaling Station which closed down in 1978. They used to hunt Sperm and Right Whales. Pretty gruesom practice, but heaps interesting. Then on the way home called into the Blowhole (remember - don't [View Full Entry]

Sash and Tandy - Natasha Shanks | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: April 6th 2009 | 34 Views | [diary=388156]

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Hello Everyone Well Sandy and I were off to a good start. We had a great dinner on Friday night at The Saint, our neck of the woods. With a good feed in our tummy's there wasn't a chance for a overly huge night. We gave it a good bash though! The party was great, the company and the stories were a plenty. It was a great send off and Sandy and I rolled home bout 12.30 pm for a good nights sleep. After last minute packing and running the last of the storage to dads shed and after downing a [View Full Entry]

Sash and Tandy - Natasha Shanks | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: April 5th 2009 | 52 Views | [diary=387863]

Albany
4 wheel driving


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