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Published: June 18th 2006
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Jen & Tony Kings Park
The view of Perth from Kings Park is fantastic because of its elevation “Robin Hood” strikes.
Life in the west has been great in many regards, but it has turned a little bit sour with thieves breaking into our Villa and stealing credit cards , money and a laptop computer. Insurance covered the computer and the NAB still has to come good with the stolen money. To top this off Jen was taking a short break last Friday morning and on visiting the local shopping centre, thieves smashed the drivers window and stole our GPS. Needless to say the insurance company won’t pay out because the item was not nominated…but at least the window was. All that aside, we have decided to continue on with our holiday and will be setting off north on Saturday 17th. We intend calling in to many of the tourist spots along the way and will reach Broome on the 14th July. We spoke today with Lynnette Sewell (Tony’s cousin) who lives just out of Geraldton and it is our intention to spend a few days with both her & John. Upon reaching Broome we will be staying from the 14th to the 20th at the Broome Vacation Village.
First stop north will be Dilderton, then Jurien, Geraldton, Kalbarri,
Perth City
The view of Perth from Kings Park is fantastic and this piccy shows why Monkey Mia, Shark Bay, Carnarvon, Coral Bay, Exmouth, Onslow, Tom Price if we can, Dampier, Karratha, Pt. Hedland and then to Broome.
KINGS PARK
After doing a bit of casual work with a contractor on Monday to help ease the bills, we decided to have a day out on Tuesday 13th to help us get into the relaxing mode. After visiting the bank we headed to Osborne Park to have breakfast at Giovani’s (a small place we discovered on a recent trip into the area when visiting our close friend Pio.) The owner of the restaurant came from Yugoslavia and Israel, and the story he told of life in those countries makes Australia look like paradise. An hour and a half later we said our goodbyes and wished him well as he is returning to Yugoslavia with his family to take up a new job in that country. We may think some of our freedoms have been taken from us, but unless you have contacts in those countries….well you simply become one of the “peasants”.
Anyway, after brekky we set off for King’s Park and may I say what a fabulous area it is. The views of Perth are simply
Perth Train Tunnel
The view of Perth shows the new train tennel in progress. The line ends at Mandurah in the South fantastic and the park itself is simply pristine. The walks to all areas of the park are easy to negotiate for everyone and the treetop walk gives one a different perspective of heights. We have stitched several photos together to give you a panoramic view of the area and hope it gives you a better feel of this fantastic view. The birds in the park are extremely tame and I had the privilege of feeding a rosella parrot which simply flew down from the trees to greet us.
It is Wednesday and again a beautiful day. Perth is in desperate need for rain and restrictions are still in vogue in our area at least. We are off to do a few chores in preparation for our journey north on Saturday. Thursday saw Tony head off with Pedr Stephens to do some gutter guarding to earn a bit of money for the next stage of our journey…Friday a bit more of the same but finished early because some of the guttering failed to arrive. Taking this into account Jen & I decided to leave on schedule, but instead of going north…we headed for Albany instead. Hitching up the van we said
Swan Brewery Perth
The view of Perth's Swan Brewery from Kings Park our farewells to some others in the park, to Robyn next door where we stored our caravan, and then headed south. We used the Albany highway on this trip as we had used the coast road on two other occasions and part way down we came across a little town called Williams. Thinking of nephew Justin…we could hardly pass up the opportunity to snap a photo of the welcome sign. The trip went extremely well with the van handling the same. Jen had the odd ziz or two but I guess she earned it as she had washed the van curtains the day before and had worked extremely hard. A steak sandwich at Williams was better than we anticipated and with our appetites satisfied, we continued our journey….finally arriving at about 5pm. The Albany Gardens Holiday resort is a neat and spacious park and on arrival met a few people from Busselton who were down here on a motor-cross weekend. They want us to call in to see them on the way north…but my GPS (Jen) has advised me as I write this that we may take a different route back to Perth.
Sunday was spent having brekky, taking the
Jen on the beach
The beach at Middleton is OK but hard to get to. binoculars and ourselves to Middleton Beach to whale watch. To our surprise we saw two whales frolicking some distance off the coast so was a little disappointed that they were not closer. We then took the coastal scenic route to the whale centre where we enjoyed fish for lunch. The centre is located at the start of Flinders Peninsula and near Misery Beach. From here we headed back towards Albany and called in to see the wind farm which generates most of the power for this area and also dropped in (not physically) to the Blow Hole, Gap and the naturally formed Rock Bridge. The sea was relatively calm today so the blowhole only went woooooosh, but some of the waves at the Gap were quite thunderous all the same. The wind fans, 12 in all, were simply mind boggling, and the sheer size is awesome. Monday will see us venture to see the Sandallwood factory where they make emu oil etc, and then off to the tall trees at Walpole. We will keep you all informed.
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