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Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Perth December 15th 2006

Friday 13th Dec On Wednesday I sat on a greyhound all day!! All the way back to Perth. At Perth a friend of a friend of the family kindly picked me up and I am now staying at theirs. It is nice to be with a family just before Christmas. Steve and Rosemary have two children; Grace 15 and Angus 8. I spent yesterday with Grace and then last night we went and saw some gobsmacking Christmas lights that people have put up in there houses. There were hideously impressive. On Tuesday I will fly back over to Sydney and meet Paul on Wednesday :-) I think that makes me up to date. I'm having a bit of trouble putting the videos on the net but there are some good ones to come. Love to ... read more
Christmas lights
Christmas Cheer inside aswell as out!!

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Jurian Bay December 15th 2006

We legden 195km af tussen Geraldton en Jurian Bay. We overnachtten op het Jurian Bay Tourist Park (Top Tourist) - Roberts Street No1 - Jurian Bay WA 6516 Tel: 08 - 9652 1595 Ligging: Vlakbij de zee en vlakbij een supermarkt, op wandelafstand van Internet en van toeristische informatie Prijs en wat inbegrepen: 25.65$ voor een powered site voor 3 personen (1 pers met seniorkorting) Persoonlijke beoordeling: Een grote en zeer goed uitgeruste en zeer goed onderhouden camping. Voor kinderen is er een reuze springballon, die veel succes had. Toeristische Informatie kan je krijgen bij het BP station en in de kantoren van de Shire of Jurian Bay. Maar het aanbod aan tours was hier erg beperkt: slechts één touroperator vaart uit om te zwemmen met de zeeleeuwen. Internet kan gebruikt worden in het kantoortje van ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Perth December 14th 2006

Went to day 1 having got a ticket off a tout. The atmosphere was good and England bowled well. It was a very hot day too and I was sitting on the grass hill.... read more

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Cervantes December 14th 2006

Donderdag 14 december. Na een lang ontbijt moesten we vandaag eerst wat inkopen doen en natuurlijk nagaan wat we in en rond Jurian Bay konden doen. De informatie was een beetje schaars. De reden die hiervoor gegeven werd, was dat er hier bijna geen touroperators waren. Heel veel dagtours naar deze streek worden vanuit Perth georganiseerd. Een naam die wel steeds genoemd werd was die van Mike Newton. Mike was ranger geweest en organiseerde daguitstappen in de Nationale Parken van de streek en ook naar de grootste attractie: de Pinnacles. Verder bleek de operator die vanuit Jurian Bay ‘zwemmen met zeeleeuwen’ organiseerde op dit moment zonder schipper te zitten. Gelukkig konden we dit ook doen vanuit Green Head iets terug naar het noorden. Vandaag zouden we het rustig aan doen, voor de volgende dag legden we ... read more
Nieuwsgierige zeeleeuw komt nieuwe toeristen inspecteren.
Berna zwemt met zeeleeuwen.
Zeeleeuw komt langszij.

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Shark Bay December 13th 2006

Hej igen. Nu er vi så kommet hjem til kære kolde Danmark. Hold da fast, hvor er her mørkt:=( Det nu alligevel rart at være hjemme. Julen er jo en rigtig hyggelig tid. Vi havde dog helt glemt julestresset med at få indkøbt pakker.... Det virker nærmest som en hel besættelse at få købt de pakker. Her er lidt billleder fra den sidste del af turen. I alt må vi sætte 50 billeder ind og derfor har jeg kun mulighed for at sætte yderligere 6 ind. Håber I synes om dem? Vi havde en god tid i Western Australia. I WA er der meget øde og langt mellem byerne. Vi kørte og kørte og så den samme slags buske og røde jord kilometer efter kilometer. Det var også spændende. Emma fik en standard kommentar, da vi ... read more
Nicky
Aftensmad ved solnedgang.
Pinnacles

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Perth December 13th 2006

Went to a lunch today with one of Lee's friends Tim and his friends from Newcastle. The guest speakers were Kym Hughes and Ian Botham. Alan Mullally sat on our table but was very hungover from a going out with Botham the night before. When it got to Botham's speech he was clearly quite merry but told some very funny stories.... read more

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia December 13th 2006

Drove up from Nornalup running on empty (note to self, do not expect fuel stops every 20 miles on an island the size of Australia), but happily made it without having to walk for gas. Pemberton Farm (where we are staying) is wonderful - the chalet overlooks a field full of horses (eurghhh), sheep (no reaction) and roos (aaaahhh), and there is also a pool, a playground, a trampoline, and a morning feeding session (more "aaaahhhs") of the animals. Edens day today (Thursday Dec 14th) * Wake up at 07:30 * Brekker * Go round farm feeding animals 09:00 - 09:45 * Get driven to play ground and play * Go on tram ride into the forest (and back) * Go to Hidden River Winery for lunch, play in garden there, run around dining tram eating ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Perth December 13th 2006

The teracotta warriors were AMAZINGS. I half expected them not to be great as i was expecting and to be a bit let down, but no way. Not just the warriors themself, but the story behind them, and the concept of a young emperor commanding that many people (millions) to do his bidding and indulge him was sensational.... read more
Dean with the Warriors
Warriors
Horsies

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Perth December 12th 2006

Ok y'all know I was VERY excited about the pandas, and it didn't disappoint!!! They were SOOO cute!!!... read more
The Park Entry
Our first panda
Look up in the tree

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Kalbarri December 12th 2006

Monday 11th Dec While packing last night I was talking to a girl (Jane) in my room who had been staying there a long time we just had never been in the room at the same time as eachother and she said she was travelling to Kalbarri as well tomorrow. So when I woke for the bus at 4am and saw her asleep on the sofa I woke her up and we both sleepily stumbled onto the bus for the journey south. We arrived at about 9am and on the last bus spoke to a guy called John who had come out for the cricket. The town is fairly big compared to what we have been use to which means it has more than one street! We all went for Brunch and then I hid inside ... read more
greeted by a kangaroo along our way
sun protection!
John and I




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