Perth

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So we've arrived in Perth after a long weekend and very tiresome flight from Melbourne to stunning sunshine and borderline bearable heat. We managed to book a hostel for 3 days, 24$ a night, and to our complete surprise and utter happiness - it has a pool. This pool saved our lives numerous times, as even at 10am in Perth it's over 30 degrees. The city itself is pretty great - it's really compact and easy to get around with free transit within the city centre, tons of cheap shopping, surrounded a a gorgeous river. I'm jealous that Alex and Elise actualyl get to live here for a few months! (They've told us that their University Campus is to die for as well) So since being in Perth we've spent most of the time wandering around, seeing the sights and experiencing the night life. Alex, Hill and I rented bikes one day and spent a gruling 2 hours in the heat, almost suffering from sun stroke, to get to the beach. But MAN, when we got there was it stunning.AND we even saw dolphins in the river on the way! Our first experience on the Indian Ocean - we were very impressed. We also spent the day at the beach (all four of us) at Fremantle, and had "the best fish and chips in australia" - they were pretty darn good. Yesterday we went to a one day music festival called Good Vibrations - it was mostly hip hop and dj music but we had a great time dancing and singing along to some great artists. We saw two DJs: sidney sampson and fake blood, followed by Nas and Damien Marley, Ludacris, and bits and pieces of otehr artists such as Faithless, Yolanda Be Cool, and Rusko. Today is our last night with the girls before they head off to school, and then Hill and I embark on our own journey to work on a farm for our meals and room just north of Cairns. We've had a great run with the two of them and will miss them a ton! Lots of love to the family and friends back home - I'll be uploading more pictures soon when I have a bit more time (the internet allows only 20minutes free intervals here!!)

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Photos

Perth
A cool painting outside our first hostel in perth

Perth
Walking down the alleys

Swan River
Dolphin/Porpoise in the river

Starfish on my hand
Hillary found a starfish.. it felt really weird moving around with its feelers

Star-tree
there's a ton of these in this city

Hillary and her cart
After a long day at Fremantle Hillary buys time waiting for the bus.. we didn't help her get out it was too amusing

HAPPY
Angus is generally happy so this fits well

FUN
around the city's museum there's a lot of these structures

Angus
making bracelets at the beach with the girls

Penguin island
walk/swim/boat depending on the tide to get to the penguin conservation island

Penguin Island
stunning blue waters around the tiny island.. probably filled with sharks

Wild Penguin
we found this guy hiding under one of the walk ways around the island

Me and Hill
our timed shot on the island

Skint?
apparently they are harmless..

Hillary
after we missed the ferry we decided to refresh ourselves one last time in the Indian Ocean before the next boat arrived

Epic Milkshake
last day in perth we treat ourselves nicely