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Published: November 2nd 2009
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Once at Perth i wanted to relaxe so I plan to stay one week. I wanted to travel with another person for that leg of the trip so I needed time to find some other traveller heading north. For the few first night I stayed near the city center of Perth in the bar district. For some reason I didn't fit in those hostel and the people were not inclusive. Worst people were watching soccer and clubbing at night and comming back very drunk...maybe because they were young british. So I decided to move to Perth nearest beach which was in another neigborhood of Perth. The hostel there was recommanded and alcoolh free. I meet fews peoples it was better but still I notice some group of people were hanging together in some rooms during the evening. After a while I understood that some backpacker were working in the area and were there for quite a while so they had their "group of friends" and were not interested that much to meet passing by backpacker.
Couchsurfing was a bit active so I joined a day trip to the nearby island, a picknik near my hostel and a meet at a
cafe. I also had Claudette uni friends Liz and her boyfriend Chris to meet. We had a good chat at their house, a afternoon of golf with Chris and an evening at the pub.
I did a bike ride to the nearby beach 15km and got prepare for the next leg of the trip.
In Perth, I tried to sleep in the van but it's hard to find a spot that blend with other car near a park (for bathroom). One night some neigboor must have found my van suspect because he was looking at it quite a bit from his balcony. I decided to leave since I didn't want the visit of the police. Still a bit stressfull to sleep in the van alone. It's easier when you are in front of your friend house of in the country side.
I found 2 traveller a german guy Thomas and a hong kong girl Agnes to travel with me. I had a itinery of thing I wanted to see that I could show them and a flexible schedule on my side to add things up on the way.
We headed north toward Geraldton. We stopped at
Cervantes to by cheap lobster and did the Pinacles. My traveller wanted to stop to the independant country according to the Lonely planet Hut river province. After Hut province we were supposed to stay in Kalbari but because we stayed in Hut province few hundred km before we had to do some driving for my travelmate to catch his flight on time and keep the planned schedule. After I wanted to stay near Geraltdton in free campsite and near a blow hole but one travelmate asked for shower. So we drove few hundred km more to a Station ( big big big farm) where they had facilities. For the hot water we had to do a fire under the water tank and the night time was not the right time for someone to take a shower...the follow morning it was not the right time to take a shower so no shower and an grumpy travelmate. Also there were complaint about the wind blowing on the tent and quite a difficulty to wakup and pack the tent.
I was also presure to describe the attraction in my itinery I had to sell to my travelmate those places without having seeing
it myself. I didn't like questionning the initial itinery that we agree with. When you have to do few hundred km to see something I understand you try to plan carefully but it happend sometime the swell is not strong enough to see the blowhole.
So I had to take a decision before going inland and having to cope with all those constraits. So your route stop at Coral bay a small place with 3 hotel, 2 campings, one hostel, 3 streets, fews houses for rent and a nice beach. Agnes decided to joins Thomas so I was back alone with my van. Maybe I miss something during those 5 days. I knew it was a possibility so I accepted it. She didn't agree to travel with me alone she might feel more secure with a group. Then I decided to stay fews days in Coral Bay camping to evaluate the sitution. I was a bit stress by the situation. But Coral bay was the best place to put ideas straight. So many Wicked camper van in the camping it was easy to meet people. After a day or two you see the same people on the beach, on
the camping, in the camping kitchen so when you go to the pub you see famillar faces.
The hazard was good for me. Only 2 hours after leaving my two travelmates. I met annette on the campground, a CS girl I have meet in Perth during the day trip to the island. She had her phone in her hand and was trying to phone me. She didn't have any transportation anymore and knews i was travelling north. After looking at eachother schedule and point of interest we agree to travel to Darwin together.
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