Yippee!! - On the road again and it feels fantastic, FREEDOM!! After a pleasent four hour drive from Perth to Albany we arrived late afternoon and checked in to our first hostel for four months. The hostel was homely and we met some great people that we'll keep in touch with throught this trip. It's bloody cold down here, apparently there's nothing seperating us from the Antartic so that might explain it. We were originally planning to spend 3 nights here but after our first night, and realising how much there was to see we bumped it up to 4 nights and could have stayed longer. After doing very little in the way of physical activity for a while we jumped at every chance to go for a hike or walk and saw some amazing stuff, ... read more

We spent a day at Caversham Wildlife park at the weekend, it was great, it's in the middle of Whiteman Park, about 30KM's North of the city. It houses all different species of Australian animals in a natural surrounding, there aren't many fences (apart from the main one around the park) and most of the animals are free to roam about and that. There's loads to see and you're allowed to interact with the animals, feeding them, racing them, challenging them to jumping competitions etc. We see loads of different things, Cassowary, Lorikeets, Flying Foxes, Koalas, Quokka, Wallabies, Walleroos, Kangadrews, Tasmanian Devils, Kookaburra, Damas, Falcons, Eagles, Busards, Curlew, Dingos, Potteroos, Wombats, Gliders, Camels etc. I'll probably fill in the blanks at a later date but am starving so away to eat a Kangaroo steak, wonder if ... read more

I’ve completed my longest Australian employment history to date, one full week and I’m still here, quite an achievement for my good self. I’m working as an IT technician in a hospital; it’s a real interesting job, fixing things that go bad in the hospital, not operations and that, just computer related stuff. This could be from a simple problem like a printer isn’t working properly, or a PC is running real slow to a complicated issue like the screen that we’re monitoring this boy’s life on has gone down or the camera we’re using for this operation isn’t working. Obviously the latter is far more exciting and there is the chance that you’ll have to go into theatre during an operation and fix some of the equipment, all scrubbed up to the nines, unfortunately I ... read more

Well it’s been a while since I’ve written in here, so what’s been going on I here you ask? We moved in to a nice apartment in South Perth, it’s across the water from the city but it only takes seven minutes on the ferry or 10 minutes by bus from outside our door. South Perth is a nice spot, a leafy suburb with loads of mega expensive apartments and condo type affairs, there’s loads of restaurants, three pubs and loads of wee café’s and trendy coffee shops. I’ve worked in most of these places but that’s another thread entirely…… We’re moving towards winter here and it’s getting pretty wet, it doesn’t rain often, twice a week or so, but when it does rain it comes down in style I tell thee. It’s never really cold, ... read more

This is more what I'm used to, partisan atmosphere, hostile crowd, there's no love lost between these cross-town rivals. As I mentioned in the last post both these teams play at the Subiaco Oval which is in the trendy East Side of Perth, it's a real nice area with loads of bars, restaurants, boutiques, whatever tickles your fancy can be found in Subi really. The Eagles are based here, it's where they train, have offices etc, it's really there home ground in my book but it's owned by the council, the Dockers play there home games here but train down in Fremantle at their own Oval and are based in the seaside town. From start to finish it was more like a football game that I'm used to, loads of shouting at the opposition, songs, threats ... read more