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Joondalup Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Joondalup, Australia
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Exhaling
... SCUBA course. On my birthday, Feb 20th, I skyped with family, opened presents, and met up with some friends for lunch in Joondalup. We had a delayed dinner with the Scottish Mafia later in the week – it was so nice to see them ...
Back in Aus!
... also fantastic to see my ladies from the Australian Medical Association (both past and present) Margaret, Stephanie, and Kate. I'm looking forward to a great few months in Australia! Watch out, this locum Canadian doctor is on the loose! ...
Time for some Off-Road Driving!
Cervantes to Joondalup Total Roadtrip Distance so far… 21,840km Today we drove out to the Nambung National Park. This is home to the Pinnacles Desert. Here there are thousands of limestone pillars all rising from the sandy floor. ...
Sorrento Harbour + p*ss ups!
We'll start where we left off. Deans birthday celebrations We headed off to Northbridge and straight to a bar called the brass monkey. quite a sophisticated bar, nice but not where we'd of spent all night. Dean spent the first 30minutes trying to learn ...
Australien ist das neue Mallorca
Ungewöhnlich schnell blogge ich mal wieder etwas denn die Zeit mit dem "all the time internet" ist vorbei und wann ich das nächste mal ein Internetcafe ähm ich meine Mc Donalds finde ist ungewiss. Die Sache mit dem Mc Donalds ist auch so ...
Back to the Lovely Berth in Perth
If I am completely honest, the Carnarvon I experienced had few redeeming features. As this is a public blog, I have to be somewhat sensitive in what I post… The town. I don't think I saw Carnarvon at its best; last year it, and the ...
Back to civilisation...
... on the beach all day and I've got quite a bit to fill you in on, so if you're all sitting comfortably?... Australia. A land where toilets flush automaticaly and toilet roll is available in all toilets. A land where dogs are loved as pets rather than ...
Still in Joondalup & mal wieder auf der Lift suche
Manche Dinge wiederholen sich in Australien immer und immer wieder die Suche nach einem Lift (= Mitfahrgelegenheit) ist def. eins davon. Ausgenommen man hat sein eigenes Auto aber selbst dann muss man wohl nach Mitfahrern suchen auch wenn das wohl im ...
Its been awhile :)
... but thats still four dollars that could be spent elsewhere, and not in a stuffy smelly room haha. So, moving on. I am now in joondalup, a suburb of about 200 000 people at the ECU (Edith Cowan University) campus. I am living with six people (one of ...
Home again
Arrived back in Joondalup, cleaned the van out and dropped it off. This trip really was a huge amount of fun. Granted I would suggest to anyone doing it that the motto "two people is comfortable, threes a squeeze" should be in the forefront of ...
Our final leg of the greatest roadtrip ever!
... it could reach the ground! We then swapped back driving and John continued the trip on through Perth and out to Joondalup. The traffic was pretty bad but sure what else would we expect coming back into Perth after the Easter weekend. ...
Ma Hackett comes to visit
... We only had to stick it out for a few weeks as it was soon time to move out of our apartment. We had a few nights in the van at our old haunt North Quay and then it was time to say goodbye to Western Australia and back into Trouty and on the ...
Surfing and then Becoming Australian
... UK mainly due to lifestyle issues, size of home, kids growing with so much access to sport. Then headed up to Joondalup City's civic cnetre. there were flags up for Oz, aboriginees and WA (western austrilia). 4 people became australian today after ...
Riding the Dunes
This is a top pick! ... re-inflate the tyres for the road. A day is never complete without a bit of shopping so we stopped at a huge complex in Joondalup where Greg got talked into buying a second PS3 controller by Anthony, then headed home for tea. Jane and Paul got home ...
Why is nothing biting?
Up and out early. I'm off sea fishing with Andy and Rob on their boat. It's a beautiful sunny, hot day (again) and it's great to be out at sea with the breeze. I have to say its not exactly a busy day with lots being hooked ... in fact it's ...
A different kind of Christmas Eve
Ok people, I'm sure you're fed up of hearing this, but yet again, the weather is perfect. I've decided upon another beach day. Well you don't go to the beach (in your bikini) on Christmas Eve in the UK that often, do you? Sarah ...
Chilling with Greg
This is a top pick! Another relaxed start to the day then we set off with Greg to have a look around Hillary's point - the local marina and harbour complex. The harbour was beautiful - and we looked enviously at all the fabulous yachts moored there. Some were for ...
Melting!
It's going to be a hot day today - 40 degrees they say. So Andy and myself are up and out for our beach walk and swim by 7.45am. We're not the only ones with the same idea, the beach is busy with families playing in the sea and adults walking the ...
A beach workout
... setting sun on the grass. Followed by a huge burger and chips. A truely amazing burnt orange blaze and sunset over the harbour wall sees out the day, followed by ice-cream with my aunt and uncle. God sure has made Australia beautiful. ...
You'll never forget this one!
It's Christmas Day. The year is 2011. In Perth, Western Australia I wake up. I am staying with my English (by birth) uncle, Australian Aunty and cousins Sarah and Danny. It's a beautifully clear, blue sky morning with a lovely sun ...
Gift wrapping station
Crowds, shops and the stress of getting gifts. We all battle it. Some better than others. Some earlier than others. Some at the last minute. Actually some may not after all. Some wrap their own gifts. Some get them wrapped by smiling sales assistants. ...
Visiting The Moore's
Spent four day visiting Ian, Fiona, Patsy and Owen at their home in Joondalup. Watched Owen play Soccer twice (budding Liverpool star!) Enjoyed some long runs on beautiful Western Australian beaches. Said good-bye to all the family and our ...
Just another winters day!
We woke upon our last sunday in Perth, and after breakfast myself, Paul and Martin made the short drive down to Bruns Beach. Here, the guys got positioned on soem rocks the extend out into the sea and began to fish.I would never normally have enjoyed ...
More headwind.
I love to camp in this old woods nothing around as nature. The births they sing or like this who laughs like a monkey and now I can take a picture The Wind get now stronger and harder just as they like as I don't arrive my target. It get more ...
Christmas Island
... . Instead, I send her to get her wounds cleansed by a nurse so that she can be taken to the detention centre (Australia holds asylum seekers in detention centres while their cases are being determined). Before she leaves, she tells me: “I ...
Christmas day on Mullaloo beach
Wow we woke up to a scorcher for Christmas day, never been away before for the big day, so was very weird, but nice! Didn't feel like christmas at all because it was so hot and the Aussies have a different way of celebrating. We saw everyone having ...
Rain, rain, go away.
... ;this was supposed to be SUMMER!?! Tonight I endured Scott's driving during heavy rain, and shockingly I actually survived. Went into Joondalup to the cinema to see 2012, it's about the end of the world...clearly Scott and Jonny chose this ...
Jobless
I promise to write in this more coz I can barely remember what I done last week! I worked on Friday dayshift, then Saturday night. Finished about 3.30am. Awful, awful job.. who knew I'd end up missing working for SB?! So after speaking to my dad I ...
Hello 2011!
Tomorrow I start work again after a ridiculously relaxing 10 days of vacation. I have read, sat in the pool, walked on the beach and...well, pretty much have done nothing else! The real world of work will be a rude awakening. Do not, ...
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