Blogs from Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 600

Ok....starting to get excited now!!! We can finally begin the countdown, but of course I have like a zillion things to do between now and when we leave ARRRRRR!!!!... read more

G'day! It's been a couple of weeks since we last blogged and in that time we've travelled so far. We'll try to keep it as short as possible, but there's so much to tell! We flew into Perth from singapore to be greeted with beautiful but rather chilly spring weather (in comparison to SE Asia). The first thing you notice about Perth is that it's so damn clean! The pavements are devoid of rubbish, the parks are pristine and even the sky scrapers shine differently from other cities. Naturally we did the usual city sights and spent the evenings supping Tooheys New and Victoria Bitter in trendy Northbridge. After a few days we were getting restless and wanted to explore more of Western Australia. We made a "make us or break us" decision and decided the ... read more

Spring has come early this year to our holiday cottage in Denmark, Western Australia. Here are some shots taken around our garden of blossoming fruit trees and feathered friends.... read more

Well after being in Freo (Fremantle) for 2 months and not seeing anything more than... Freo & Perth, I finally got outta here for a few days! A few weeks ago I was talking to a friend here, Steve(Kiwi) and mentionned he wanted to head down to Margaret River for a weekend. Well it tweaked my interest as I really wanted to see it and I really needed to get out of here for a while. So I went along with him. I finished work early on Friday and we headed out for a chill camping trip. Well, campground camping that is. We initially wanted to just set up tent anywhere near the beaches, but it's very hard to find a place as everything is under reconstruction/conservation land, so we opted for the campgrounds. We arrived ... read more

Ok, ok so you don't get many people in Australia singing along to this ozzy classic but we think it is important to realise that Australia lives up to many of its sterotypes, for example.. 1) It is very sunny, in fact it has only rained here once since we have been here, that's spectacular considering our track record. 2) There are kangaroos..everywhere particulalrly at dusk/dawn, which must be avoided at all costs especially when in a hire car with a scarily high insurance excess 3)...Ok so thats only two sterotypes but it will do for now, instead here is a little update about how things have been progressing down under: Since we spoke last we spent two days in sunny Port Douglas. This was most amusing especially as caught up with our new friends Andrew ... read more