Well, created my first blog with TravelPod today. Thought since everyone else seems to be blogging their travels that I would join the revolution (I only made the plunge to Facebook a few weeks ago). So, with only 27 days to go, the official countdown has begun and with all the travel docs in hand I now have to simply get my work affairs in orde...

Hi All, Well im finally back writing a new blog entry, been about 2 months now so about time :) Im trying to remember whats been happenening since i last blogged.. back in November we went and watched the red bull air race. It took place over the river just down the road from us which was pretty cool, so we all went and sat on the bank watching ...

Well, after wandering around Perth for a few days you realise that the city sprawls so much that it is impossible to really see it on foot, I could of course, have taken the CAT systwm for free to see the CBD and surrounding area, however, that did not seem to be in the Aussie spirit of things, so instead I decided to cycle on the Swan River, (I...

I've come thirty kilometres up the road to Perth. Trivia fans will be pleased to learn it's the world's most isolated city. I could believe it's the world's hottest city myself as it's hit forty-two degrees while I've been here. The bus was free of charge. I hadn't paid the smoking bus driver as he wasn't ready to give change until he was back i...

After Coral Bay we covered some serious K's (kilometers) stopping occasionally when we saw something interesting off the road like a large pink lake (turned out to be a beta-carotene lake where I think the pink panther lived) or leaning gum trees (literally growing sideways because of the intense winds). Our last stop before Perth was at Kalbarr...

My 56th birthday. Helen very kindly gave me a lovely card with a fairy wren on it, a 2007 Australian calendar and a Swiss dark chocolate bar. She is also going to take me, her son and his girlfriend out to her cousin's place to have a look at a park nearby for birds (they have just come back from India) and for a seafood (and other) smorgasbord ...

We had a really busy day planned for today so waking up with a hangover wasn't the best start. The thought of sitting in that bus for all those hours was equally depressing but we were up early and yes once again I was eating vegemite (I decided after that it was to be adopted as my cure for all future hangovers). So it was onto the bus and towa...

We had 10 days in the West so we decided to head out of town to see some of the surrounding areas, as it is a very big state with fairly big distances between, so we hired a car to see where we would get. Couldn't get much further west & with the desert east of the city we could only really head south or north, we chose the former first. It ...

The longer I am in Australia the more I am starting to believe that maybe everything does happen for a reason and that if you trust things will work out - they will. Sometimes the most unexpected things happen and turn out to be really amazing. Case in point . . . I wasn't getting any work. The temp agency I was with had dried up with the placem...

This afternoon I made the 4 hour flight down to perth and then hopped on a bus down to Fremantle, which is about 30 mins away from Perth city centre. I'm planning to stay here for a couple of months and try and get some office temping work, to get some money together to travel up the west coast back to Darwin, and then down the centre to see Aye...