Blogs from Perth City, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 48

It's been nearly a week since i last updated this, and we've done quite a bit since then, including doing to the West Coast Eagles v Brisbane Lions Aussie Rules Footy match at the 43,000 seater Subiaco Stadium, which was great fun (even though it took us nearly an hour to actually work out how its played!) We were supporting the Eagles, as they are the local team, and they unded up thrashing the lions 122 - 63 which only made things better. We also went down to the WACA (the cricket ground where part of the ashes is going to be played in december), and although the ground was closed, the security guard was nice enough to let us in to have a look around, and then spent about half an hour telling us how ... read more

Hey all, we've been in Australia nearly a day now and it all seems pretty cool, not really been up to that much yet, because we're both pretty jet lagged, and have only had about 5 hours sleep since Sunday night (it's now wednesday evening here), but if all goes to plan we should hopefully be doing some surfing and checking out some Aussie rules footy matches pretty soon! Perth seems well nice from what we've seen, very clean, a bit quiet, but we havn't had chance to check out the nightlife yet. Today we've been to Kings Park, which is basically a huge park with loads of cool wildlife and trees etc, we've seen a load of parrots flying about and heard some, and i've even managed to get a bit sunburnt already, even though ... read more

Week 5-6 (8th - 24th April 2006) We arrived at Esperance on the afternoon of April 7th after a 4 hour drive east from Albany. Esperance is based around a port which controls a large portion of the wheat export from the agriculture-belt that runs from Perth 600km to the east. The export of wheat (and a few other commodities) takes place through a huge hangar style building with a customs building tacked onto the side of it. The shipping of the goods is done using the railway and also the notorious 'road train' vehicles, which are 3 articulated lorries joined onto each other to make one huge train. Now that I have set the scene - our camsite was alongside the main road into the export yard. This meant that we had a constant noise ... read more

Weeks 3-4 (24th March - 7th April 2006) Although it seems a tradition to name your vehicle when travelling so that you can call it names if it breaks down, our truck is still un-named! We have already had one suggestion of calling it 'Roly' which seems quite apt as the thing has more roll than a hotdog vendor when cornering at speed. This of course never happens when Claire is driving (guess who's writing this blog at the moment??). Any further suggestions to the name of the beast will be much appreciated - it's chunky, heavy on it's feet, not too good looking, is a bit bouncy on bumpy ground and grunts a bit when put under strain! One suggestion from the diveclub will be ignored however......we're not calling it 'Moose' ! ! ! Anyway, ... read more

Weeks 1-2 (10th-23rd March 2006) Greetings from Australia!!! We are finally here for good, after a seemingly endless wait for the house to sell - but it all happened so fast in the end that we didn't have time to stop and take a breath!! Sincere apologies to all the family and friends that we didn't get a chance to say goodbye to. It just wasn't possible to do it all. Still, you can always come and visit us in Oz for a cheapy holiday when we eventually settle somewhere. So the grand plan for those of you who don't already know - we landed in Perth Friday 10th March after a rather long journey via Kuala Lumpur and Kuching. We have spent the past 2 weeks buying a car (Toyota Landcruiser 80 series, 4.2L Diesel ... read more