Blogs from Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 645

On Thursday morning I took off for a long drive, about 500km, to the town of Esperance. On the way I stopped in the Stirling Ranges - beautiful mountains not far from Albany. I did a short hike there, couldn't afford more before the long drive I had before me. Still it was really nice to walk a little again. Did I mention already how like I was with the weather?? This all week since I arrived to Western Australia was so beautiful. And so I continued the long way, stopping for fuel, body fueling (ice cream and lime diet coke - wish we had this at home), and toilet of course (necessary after the diet coke...). And yes, also cleaning the windshield every now and then, it's unbelievable how many flies committed suicide on my ... read more

On this fabulous day we decided to have lots of fun and do things we wouldn't normally do. After debs opened presents and received phonecalls from home, we went into town. They have scoot cars which are a cross between a scooter and a small car, that was one of her presents to have a go in it. The car rattled and shook and got some very funny looks as we cruised around town, it was fish and chips lunch after which i will say was very nice. We chilled in hostel and then cracked open our fine box of wine (a 2005 i believe, fine year!). Sat arounda huge table around the back and played cards met up with a small group who decided that we should all get pissed as it was Debbie's B'day. ... 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

Hey hey peeps... How are you going? (That's what they say here in Oz!) After a glorious week in Sydney, where weather is currently as unpredictably sunny/rainy as home... I was well looked after by June, Lauren and Andrew. I completed my course of antibiotics before I flew to Perth and my ears were very well behaved throughout the journey. Having been collected by the hostel owner and granted a double room to myself for half the price, I wandered, hung out and prepared for the arrival of my loved one... Saturday morning, I woke before my alarm, prepared myself and the array of fake petals and (real) roses across the bed and caught the airport shuttle bus to the airport. By the time I arrived, the driver and couple passengers knew my story and wished ... read more

So i said goodbye to the family at around 9pm and my flight took off at 1030pm, i had a 6 hour stopover in Hong Kong airport (loads of fun!!), and i arrived in Perth at around 730am on the 21st. My girlfriend Debbie was suppose to meet me there but she was late, i didn't mind it was just lovely to see her. We stayed in a hostel called the Shiralee, a nice place but the people seemed a little clicky. My first impressions of Oz are that its like America with a hint of England. The next day took us to Kings Park in the heart of Perth, they have a small tree top walk so that you can see all the birds and flowers, its mad as their normal birds are parrots and ... read more