Perth, Australia Travel Blogs

... my new package...I assumed by this point it was either a speargun or a rifle or something like a tank for the domination of Australia. A girl that works at the hostel came up to me and said "hey Jordan we have a surprise for Hanna outside for her Birthday ...

A travel blog entry by gunslinger22
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... north to follow the sunshine up the edge of the Western Australian coast. Road trip! Today we left Busso and drove up to Perth. The road trip is in a car belonging to an Australian girl named Donna who came into Busselton two weeks ago and was working at ...

A travel blog entry by wanderlustcat
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Yeah, Tony and Sarah arrive from Sydney today after Tony finally gets the all clear by the doc about his leg. We finally meet up with them after they get stranded in Kings Park and we catch the train to Fremantle. After checking into our hostel we head ...

A travel blog entry by carolandthomas
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... the two of us going to see Canadian musician and mathematics phD Caribou (previously known as "Manitoba") perform at a little bar in downtown Perth. It was a good show. In the morning Campbell had to head off to drive back to work (lots of driving on his ...

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... deep water but who knows.  The guy im with ahs killed a 13 foot tiger shark with his spear gun. I'm in good hands.  Soon I will control the seas and all the coast of Australia will bow down to me. And my good mule Kyle.      

A travel blog entry by gunslinger22
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Over this entire journey, the Top 5 has been ever-present. It has summarised cultures, people, situations, annoyances, the music, the random. So it is only appropriate that, at the conclusion of this journey, I reflect in the form of a set of Top 5s - The ...

A travel blog entry by marktjhung
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... in Canada in the early '80s and spent Christmas 1984/New Year's 1985 with him and his family. Perth (population 1 million) is the capital of Western Australia and, as I remember, one of the prettiest cities in Australia. Although it is a city, it ...

A travel blog entry by kimandmartin
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... home brew. 29th May 2005. Today we managed to get our campervan sorted for our jaunt around the south west of Australia. We managed to get a 4 berth Winnebago, complete with shower and toilet. A home from home. We spent the afternoon wandering ...

A travel blog entry by tonyandsarah
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... tribute to those who died. I believe we just read that the UK is planning a tribute. Its 2005 now. There is at least 2 in Australia that we have been to and the UK has to wait 3 years before it can begin. Not good. Soap Box moment over, we later ...

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... Boxing Day was spent snorkeling at the beach and was even hotter in fact it was not only the hottest December day ever recorded in Perth at 44.4 degrees but this year it was the hottest city any where in the world so we have been told. It doesn't normally ...

A travel blog entry by roseyben
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So today is the big move! Well it's not such a big move I guess since we aint got that much stuff but looking at it all now I wonder where all these things have come from. Of course we have bought a few things for the new house; kettle (the most essential ...

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Oh my god how my body aches from yesterday!!! I can barely walk and Ben feels a little pain too so I know it was bad down there under the sea. Anyway today we have friends coming to visit before they head off up the coast on their travels in the form ...

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... doing the craziest things just to keep my brain active. I guess I spend a lot of my time just wondering around the streets of Perth and my local shopping centre simply to get me out of the house when it is a nice sunny day, which is pretty much every ...

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Well I figure I better let you all know that the POLICE concert rocked!! It wasn't cheap but to sit so close to the stage and watch one of the best bands that have ever lived was worth every cent let me tell ya!! What can I say; we caught the train, ...

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The title may be a little strange I know but when I looked in the mirror this morning (no it didn't break) I saw a few too many silvery grey hairs in my lovely natural blonde hair for my liking so I figure if I'm going grey I must be getting more wrinkly ...

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... get pissed I know) but then I guess England don't have much to celebrate these day. Ok rant over. So Australia Day is massive and Perth is the place to celebrate it with lots of family things going on all day and a fantastically amazing firework ...

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Still living the cruisy life! Being back at work is not nearly as bad as I thought it would be, but then I guess when you live in a stunning place like this it aint so bad getting up to go to work. In fact I'd rather be at work all day than sat around ...

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... us off. It was so good to meet up with Leeanne again and look forward to our next visit. It was really weird leaving Australia doesn't feel like we have scratched the surface. We have see so much yet seen so little and given hardly anytime to Western ...

A travel blog entry by lizandsimon
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We decided that if it was nice today we would into town to Perth Convention Centre to see some pretty snazzy cars at Perth Motor Show as there really is nothing to do on a Sunday as all the shops (well most of them) are closed and there's only so many ...

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Zoe calls to say that we can have the room.   Yippee.   For a month to start and we will see how it goes. That's great cause once work is sorted we plan to find our own house as we plan to be here for a while which I will tell you about ...

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... on somebody's part) and packed all my stuff into Campbell's maroon old-man sedan and got ready for the "big drive": Exmouth to Perth, one day. We'd discussed stopping in Geraldton to break the trip but since he only had a few days off and we wanted to get ...

A travel blog entry by wanderlustcat
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So just what have we been up to with our new life here in Perth? Well Ben is working not too hard I guess he finishes work at 3.30pm is home by 4 and in the pool by 5 past! It has been so bloody hot this last few weeks as high as 42 degrees some days so ...

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... part way up the coast) before the last of the Whale Sharks departs for deeper waters. It would really make my whole Australia trip to be able to snorkel with these massive marine creatures. There are two other vehicles leaving at roughly the same time ...

A travel blog entry by jawad
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... 't seem to notice our white rental car as they dash through the blue morning into the green underbrush. Autumn in Australia is gorgeous. The shapes are kangaroos, leaving their night marauding for a rest in the thickets near Dwellingup. I squeal ...

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So one of my bestest friends Sharon (and her husband Paul of course) had a baby girl today; Poppy Leah. She weighed 7lb5oz and poor Sharon was in labour for a whopping 29 hours; OOUUUCCCHH!!!!! Hope all is well can't wait to see the pics and will ...

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... at the park and she ends up doing 2 laps round the lake chasing ducks! On Friday Derek and Nicci shows us the sights around Perth - in the pouring rain unfortunately - but it does brighten up in time for an al fresco lunch at the Left Bank in Fremantle. ...

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... . . . After I bought the bike I took it for a test run along the coast of the Swan River up towards Perth. I went about twenty kilometres, admiring the views out over the aquamarine waters of the Swan, the sailboats zipping in the warm winds. The ...

A travel blog entry by wanderlustcat
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... We decided that we should see a few more of Perths tourist attractions before we headed south so we made our way to the Perth Mint (PIC), Australia's oldest operating mint and one of the oldest in the world. It was set up to manufacture coins, bullion and ...

A travel blog entry by gonetilwhenever
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So it's taken me just under 2 weeks to find the dream job. I applied for 4 jobs in total the first of which had already gone; it was through an agency so she offered me an administration position with the deaf society which perhaps could have been ...

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Well now that my birthday is in the height of summer (Yyipppppeeeeeeeeeeeee) I decided to have a pool party. January has been mighty hot with 25 days being above 36 degrees!! And then of course the weekend of my b'day they forecast thunder storms and ...

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