Kings Perth

... continued past Canarvon, we came to the Overlander Roadhouse which is the junction to Shark Bay World Heritage area. 1st stop was the old telegraph station and Hamelin Pool. Here we saw some of the oldest living fossils called &#8220;stromatolites&#8221;, they look like rocky lumps dotted along the foreshore. <br><br>We then went to Shell beach which has literally trillions of white coquina (cockle) shells. In some areas they estimate the shells are 10 ...

... bed, is actually pretty swish!! Electric gates and everything. Get to me the crazy crew as well. This consists of Lauren who is a 24(going on 40) year old ex prostitute, her daughter Victoria who is absolutely stunning and has the biggest mop of curly hair I have even seen on a baby. And then there is Mark the 6 pills in one shot popping fat English guy who is Laurens parter and Victorias dad. They seem like a nice bunch, albeit alcoholics. Lauren becomes ...

... sparkling waters.........so peaceful......so relaxing!!!<br><br>Oh well all that couldn't last for long!!!........on the way back we stopped at the latest addition to Hua Hin's shopping facilities...........HUGE SHOPPING COMPLEX!!!.......480 shops!!.......Cherie managed to find a few things and a visit to SWENSENS (Ice Cream parlour) topped off the day.........well that part of the day.<br><br>Back to the hotel........a ...

so after crashing out when i got home on Sunday there was frantic, and largely unsuccessful job hunting on Monday. Intercepted with drinking beer and trying to avoid being thrown in the pool/on the pool table.<br>Or was that Tuesday? Hours in the hostel bar tend to all gel into one really.<br><br>Tuesday evening though was spent on my date with Shane, lovely lady I had attacked on Saturday night but must have been suitably impressed by my drunken ramblings to meet me in the ...

... etc coz he lived in the middle of nowhere so in turn he told the government he wouldnt pay taxes. It resulted in the farmer declaring war on Australia and claiming his land as a province independant of australia. He has a border to the province and has his own money, government offices and calls himself Prince Leonard. Basically he is a nuts old man but it was and interesting visit. Our final port of call on the tour was the Greenough Wildlife park where we got ...

... a bit of a hiccup by accidently booking into the wrong Caravan park. It's a really long story but because we had to do so many advance bookings, due to the holidays, Geoff booked at the wrong caravan park in Freo. When we pulled into the park we were not impressed. No grass sites, no concrete slabs (that info for all the Caravaners) and the park generally not well maintained. We reluctantly ...

... forms were filled out and finally we had Beatrice our backpacker van. She was a little beaten up from a previous owner but she did us proud getting us all the way down to the south west tip of Australia and back (where the Indian and Southern Ocean's meet at Augusta, Cape Leeuwin). On our adventures in Beatrice we met a Dolphin called Lumpy in Bunbury (they just come up to the shore on a certain beach and play in the ...

... a nice discount there at the gym. My role within Australia was to set up sports projects for my company. I managed to get a lot of things going in the time I was there and we had a lot of sports projects working with various schools and sports clubs that were up and running. I joined a football team in Australia called Florat Athena FC which was a semi professional team in WA but also had 2 amateur teams as well. I played for the amateur team

... s house for a small gathering of about 10-15 people. Juanita, our host, lives well outside Perth in a large house and had prepared MUCHO food for us. Serious food. The turnout for the party ended up being about 6 people, but all were fun and we had a great evening, at least I'm told I did. I have a small memory loss of about 10 hours (during which time I was awake and apparantly partying) that I can't account for! <br> <br>Haaaaaaappy 2007!