hey guys,
If you have been trying to follow this blog at all then you will see that I got bit distracted as things got hectic and not staying with people anymore made internet an expensive pass time!
Here is a summary of what I have been up to since christmas...
- New Year's spent in Sydney, camping all day to watch the fire works at midnight, great fun!
- My parents came out to visit, after a few days in Sydney we flew back up to the Whitsunday Islands where we chartered a boat and sailed and snorkelled our way wound the picturesque set of islands. We were most lucky with the weather in what is actually rainy season!
- Headed back down the coast to Sydney where I took a flight over to Perth on the West Coast.
- A friend from the Cambridge WIndsurf Club picked me up at Perth and I stayed with him a couple of nights while exploring the city and going windsurfing on the Swan River!! fantastic!
- Moved outof central Perth to hip Fremantle, where I enjoyed some west coast beaches and the Australia Day fireworks!
- The day after Australia Day left Perth to travel North up the coast to Broome in a classic old volvo with 3 Germans (quickly dropped to 2)
- First stop was the Pinnacles Dessert, followed by camping near the beach for a beautiful sea sunset (now we were on the west coast). Then onwards up to the seaside town of Geraldton where we spent a memorable (/no memory at all) with some Irish lads in the campsite.
- Camped a couple of nights in the stunning Kalbarri national park where we trekked through a red dirt gorge in in the burning sun and also dropped in for some daily pelican feeding!
- Carried on northward up to Exmouth where the Ningaloo reef lurks just offshore. Snorkelling from Turquoise Bay we saw reef sharks, turtles, corals, starfish and lots of cool stuff!
- From Exmouth we headed inland to Karujini National Park, a small but impressive national park at the meeting point of 4 gorges. We clambered our way down gorges and through caves to leap into private water holes framed by giant red cliffs, an awesome very Australian feeling experience! On the down side the infamous outback flies drove us nearly insane.
- We arrived in Broome after camping one more night by the road side to cover the distance. The hottest place I have ever been! Even the swimming pools felt too hot here in the wet season. On the bright side though we got a persnal tour from a friend we had met down in Fremantle and spent the night doing a pool crawl (driving between different resort pools and jumping in at night when no one was looking! :) )
- Flew back down to Perth with Charlotte (one of the germans I drove up with) and we spent a day cycling and snorkelling around Rottnest Island. just off the coast of Perth. The jet boat style ferry to the idyllic island made our day!
- After a bit of debate about how to spend my lat week in Aus I decided to fly first back to Sydney to see some friends their one last time, take a bus up to Byron Bay for one lats time and then fly out of Brisbane airport. A great end to a great 3.5 months in this sunny country!
