Around The World

West coast pictures

Coral Bay and the Stromatolites

Dolphins at Monkey Mia and The Pinnacles

West Coast and Me chilling in Kings park over looking Perth

HMAS ovens The Torpedo shafts .....Cool

Perth

After a 3 day trip I arrived in Perth last night. Wow my sense of direction and travel know how has gone. I got completely lost getting to my hostel and arrived about an hour after I got to Perth which should only have taken me about 15mins. Also hostel was completely grotty so fairly pissed off havign goten up at 5.30am. Then leaving this morning I went the completely wrong direction and ended up miles from where I wanted to be. I ask you!

Now I'm in the nice new YHA, with free internet which rocks. It makes such a difference to have freindly staff and a nice clean, bright hostel. I was going to do a tour of the south west but as it's Easter everythings closed so i'm just going to stay in Perth and do some day tours instead. I'm only here till wednesday as i'm then taking the train to Adelaide for next weekend then heading to Tas yipee. Really excited about the next few weeks and then i'm ending my time on OZ adn flying back to NZ.

Photo's of the West Coast to follow soon.

Carnarvon

So what have I been up to in Carnarvon well apart from checking out the position of firstly Cyclone Glenda (luckily didn't come to anything ) and now Cyclone Harold who's on route. Have been catching up on a little R & R.

Cyclone prep involved going to the pool where Erryn works, setting up the aqua run and having heaps of fun product testing before all the little kids had a go!

Been checking out some of the sights as well this is the NASA dish used when the first man landed on the moon to beam the pictures to the rest of OZ. Erryn also took us to the blowholes which were neat, followed by a bit of snorkeling. They also have a 1 mile jetty here which I walked to a couple of times.

I'm heading off on my travel again tonight. First stop is Coral Bay then a three day trip to Perth. Stopping at Monkey Mia where dolphins come up to you in the water and a bit of hiking then into Perth on Tuesday.

Very excited about Perth as I've just discovered they have a place called penguin Island so you can guess where I'm going to try and visit!

Broome Pictures

This is the Sun cinema in Broome. Looks really relaxing watching a film under the stars in your deck chair. Don't think I'd have fancied it when Cyclone Glenda hit though, may have been a bit damp.

This is one of the many headstones from the Japanese cemetery. The cemetery was built due to the early pearling industry in Broome where many people lost their lives to the sea.

Here's an original pearling boat which was used to go fishing for oysters. As it was manly Asians who operated these vessels, Broome's main town centre is a Chinatown with a great Chinese restaurant

The long and winding road

Only a few Kms driven and a few more to go. this was a road house on route to Broome and we were quite shocked at the distances we'd come. Remember we started this leg in Darwin and 1.61kms = 1 Mile.

Cyclone Season

Well I've made it through Northern territory and come out of the rain. However here in Western Australia like the East coast it's the middle of Cyclone Season. There's currently one of the North of WA. It's named Cyclone Glenda and like a women is at the moment proving a bit difficult to trace due it's unpredictability. It's currently a category four but had thought it would rise to a category five soon (highest category for a cylcone).

Thought I'd put this on in case wherever you are in the world it makes the head lines like Cyclone Larry in Queensland.

If you want to check it out the web link is http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDW60279.shtml

Top End

I've now made it through the centre and appeared on the beach at the other end...hooray to see the sea again, although luck would have it that it's stinger season here so no swimming.

Well and truly hit the wet season but luckily managed to avoid the Cyclone which hit Queensland. Kakadu was amazing and we saw heaps of animals from a cruise we did. Darwin was a get back to the city so checked out the museum and the waterfront. Then into waterfall heaven in Litchfield National park before hitting the outback again to get to Broome. Where we currently are.

Wet season wasn't too bad it's not unlike a bad day in Scotland except you don't mind going out as the rain is hot. Since I hadn't seen rain for a very long time it didn't really bother me too much but I must admit it's good to be back in the dry, hot sun.

Now our travels are taking us to the West Coast and exploring Western Australia.

Hopefully have more pictures in a week or so.