Blogs from Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 597

Hi all, Just a quick blog while waiting in the Qantas Club lounge at Perth Airport. The free internet is too good to pass up ( Karl, eat your heart out...) even better is the free shiraz and supper. Mary is on her third Baileys and desert! Lovely lounge, think we could get used to this. Food & wine is top shelf. Looks like the flight out is on sched. expect boarding call soon. love to all, talk later from Copenhagen. cheers A & M.... read more

Thanks once again to everyone for your messages and emails, always great to hear from you all!! I have just had the most fantastic trip travelling with Planet Perth, and nine others, we had a good humoured 'surf dude' driver called 'Simon' who took us to all the nooks and crannies on the way, not to mention stopping often to look at the wildlife and wild plants. He had a funny habbit of repeating everything he said. Our bus was named 'Disco Bus' with some OK music. First day we went through the Nambung National Park, and walked through the Pinacles, which look like stalegmites (in the outdoors), you could make out different shapes and it was quite earie as you walked through them all. We had a picnic lunch at Hangover Bay and the excellent ... read more

So... Comme vous aurez pu le constater, les photos ne sont pas en totale adequation avec le texte... Mais ce n'est pas bien grave, n'est-il pas? Une petite gymnastique de clavier ne vous fera pas de tord ;) The pictures are not really in the correct order.. In fact, the picture of the Karijini Nat. Park are already uploaded in the previous journal. See below for the English comments Or donc, apres quatre jours de honteuse feneantise a Broome, nous voila reparties sur la route (j'aurais bien dit "les routes", mais cela n'aurait pas vraiment colle avec la realite). Comme d'habitude, nous nous sommes arretees pour la nuit sur une aire de repos gratuite. C'est un grand avantage de l'Australie: le pays est tellement grand, et les distances tellement importantes, que le gouvernement a ete oblige ... read more

Sorry we have not updated the web for a while however we have spent 3 web sessions trying to download immages on to the blog. However this is not working for us. We are not sure if it is because our new camera is taking photo's too l;arge to download and we can not download the program to make them smaller either. We will share pictures when we get home although I am not poetic enough to describe some of the amazing views that we have been able to see so far on our trip. 16th Sept. This morning we said a sad and fretful goodbye to Dennis and Dave as we put them on a plane for Melbourne and a week later we are having so much fun that we hardly miss them but have ... read more

Day 75 Margaret River to Albany 12/09/06 It rained quite heavily during the night, but we awoke to the sun breaking through a cloudy sky. As we got up we found some puddles on the tent floor. This was due to water leaks around the rear door and unfortunately the laptop carry case was sitting on the floor and soaked. Luckily, the laptop seemed to be dry and I was able to dry the case with Leanne’s hair dryer. After breakfast the boys fed the farm animals with our food scraps, while Leanne and I began the pack up. We left Taunton Farm around 10.30am and drove to the Margaret River Dairy Company Cheese Outlet, just up the road. We tasted several of their cheeses and purchased some Vintage Tasty, Sweet Chilly Club and a jar ... read more