Blogs from Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 568

Bonjour family, friends and curious strangers Looks like my one week stop in the beautiful city of Perth, which stretched into two months, will soon be over. Yumi's visa problem is on the verge of being history so we are almost free to move again. The stay here was starting to bleed the travel funds pretty badly, but i managed to find work fairly easily when my diminishing bank account provided enough motivation. If anyone thinks the Albertan economy is flying high at the moment you need to check out Perth. Things are pretty wild here with China's expanding economy fueling a huge mining boom. Every industry is completely starved for labour. I am working two jobs at the moment. During the day I work for a furniture removal company. There's something I hadn't planned on ... read more

This is a retro post, but we wanted to share the experience with you, and the photos tell the story quite well! We had stayed the night in Fitzroy Crossing, a small township at what was a fording point for the Fitzroy River. Nowadays, there is a one lane bridge, but in days of yore I believe the river was crossed by a ford which could only be used in the dry season. It had rained all the previous day and through the night - we were in WA and the NT at the start of the rainy season. We had parked up in our campervan, which we named Brutus, in a camping bay which had become a small lake during our afternoon and evening stay. As we drank at the campsite bar (along with the ... read more

Saturday Started with a Barbie Breakfast outside as the temperature was set to reach 38 today, Jason is really nifty on the Barbie and cooked up a mean breakfast of Pancakes eggs and Bacon, a great start to the day. Today was one that I had been waiting for a long time I was going to meet for the first time my Uncle Liam and Auntie Kala, Jason drove me the 15Km North to Butler where they live. I rang the bell and it was amazing the likeness of My Uncle and my Father. I felt like I have known them all my life. The conversation flowed and it seemed that we would never stop asking questions of each other. It was decided that Uncle Liam would take me on a walkabout tour of Fremantle and ... read more

Thursday was an overcast day and was a day we thought ought to be used to better ourselves. Janet, Lily and I travelled up the Swan Valley to sample all wonderful wines that are mad in this region, found quite a few I liked, but sadly as in South Africa; the cost of getting it home is ridiculous and its not worth it. Had a fabulous lunch at a Café within one of the wineries then Janet dropped me off at the station where I caught the train into Perth once again so that I could explore the city some more. ... read more

Hi all, as you may have spotted ive finally got round to putting some photos on, ive only added a few on at the moment compared to how many i have, but they took me ages anyway so i'll keep adding a few on each time hope you enjoy looking at them i enjoyed taking them . Well ive been in Perth for just over a week and its flown by. We've just been trying to sort out a plan for our stay here as i told you on my previous blog, looks like we will be able to do it that way just fingers crossed we get a job. We are going to do the South west bit next weekend, so more photos will be on there way no doubt. Just in Perth at the ... read more