Hay Street Backpackers Perth

... at the lovely site at Busselton we  especially enjoyed  driving around Cape Naturaliste where many people had just spotted whales.  Unfortunately it seemed that we had just missed them!  But some beautiful bays and coves around there.  Moving on we drove through some lovely vineyard country to Margaret River but were actually a little underwhelmed with the town itself, and absolutely inundated with flies, camping by the waterfront!  Thus we only spent one night ...

... very cautious because a previous calf got killed when he and it were playing and they collided at full gallop to which the other calf never recovered so Daisy running around apparently puts him on guard a little. But while watching that, we had drinks on the terrace then moved into the sitting room with hot nuts and a fire going before heading into dinner with the other of the managers. He was born and bred in Swakopmund, Namibia and used to do the overland tours so we had a ...

... I played with my new toy; the wave machine, blissfully unaware of the risk I was putting myself at. Apparently the helicopters were keeping an eye on shark sightings and that was the reason everyone had left the water. Whoops ah well I still ahve all my limbs intact.<br><br>Kirsty and I stayed on the sands for hours and watched the sunset whilst talking about life and putting the world to right. This has been one of my most special nights since I have left the UK.<br>

... a beer now for 7 days. This isn&#8217;t a problem I have been a lot longer without beer and I&#8217;m not an alcoholic (Alcoholics go to meetings!) the problem was that if I had got some US Dollars I could have bought a crate of 24 Heineken Beers for $20! Now with 6 nights on board that&#8217;s 4 beers a night/day. Oh well I will just have to wait until I can get my hands on a nice ice cold Tooheys!<br><br>When I woke on the morning of the 24th I noticed the ...

Our flight out was at midnight and we had arranged a late check-out (6pm) so after the usual huge breakfast we went out to the local shopping centres in search of the elusive pearl pendant. We eventually found a lovely 2-pearl drop pendant but one of the pearls was gold and we wanted two white pearls. The jeweller said that he had some loose pearls (which was quite unusual, since most shops only sold pearl jewellery they had imported from Hong Kong). He was able to find a ...

... to make a gold bar - it was pretty cool! There is also a place in Perth called London court which is a little shopping mall done up to look like medieval england. Kirsten told me that when she was growing up she actually thought london looked like london court until she went there - very sweet! A visit to WA wouldn't be complete without checking out some wineries so I booked myself on a tour of the Swan Valley. The tour started with a cruise up the swan river ...

... be honest I have yet to use it but it looks really nice and the fact that it's there is cool! ;) I share my residence with 5 other people. 3 Aussies, 1 Swede and another Canadian....from the same school as me...DAMMIT! There are a lot of us Canadians here though, and most from my school which is disappointing. But I have managed to meet a quite a few locals which I'm happy about. So what have I done since I've been here? I've managed to check out the city and ...

... price of hostels was the biggest shock really, spending between $25 and $30 (Oz dollars, just over 2:1 for the good ol' pound). So we've had to make our money last by cooking for ourselves, something we've both been looking forward to for ages. Lots of pasta and rice things, but we still managed to taste the local delicacy of kangaroo steaks - very yum! So many paddies here too it sometimes sounds like we're in Ireland, dunno why so many flock ...

... simone und alex auf die andere seite des swanriver und genossen den blick auf die skyline bei sonnenuntergang. spaeter gingen die lichter an und spiegelten sich im fluss. wir sassen, assen, und erzaehlten viel. fuer alle, die nicht wissen, wer unsere gastgeber sind: die beiden maedels sind die nichten meiner arbeitskollegin, sie leben hier mit ihren partnern. spaeter fuhren wir noch zum kings park, um perth bei nacht von oben zu sehen - einfach ...

What a culture shock - back to the first world! After making it through immigration in Perth I proceeded through customs and out into the arrivals area of the airport. <br><br>I immediately started laughing hysterically! <br><br>There wasn't a single person there offering transport - shouting at me or knocking me down trying to sell me something. No one even took notice of me! It still makes me giggle. I had become so used to being bombarded upon arrival that I ...