We woke up this morning to a beautiful day... not a cloud in the sky. We decided to scope out the city via public transport. Perth, it turns out, has an amazing network of buses and trains. It has free shuttles that loop around both Perth and Fremantle and if you get a transfer from the train, you can use it on any bus for the next two hours. Th...

I was all prepared. I'd done my homework. I'd studied up on the Batavia, which shipwrecked off the coast of Australia in 1629. It was the country's second oldest shipwreck (the first was a ship belonging to The East India Company in 1622.) The Batavia is noteworthy because of (a) her history, and (b) the fact that the wreck was discovered within...

We ended up staying at the beautiful Cape Range NP for two weeks, spending our days snorkeling with many sharks, sting-rays, weird lobster-type creatures and countless species of fish and coral. Jonas, James and Andy joined us after spending a hellish week in Port Hedland and at the end of the two weeks we packed up our camp, said goodbye to par...

Well last night I thought I would try and take some photos of the sunset with my new camera, instead as usual I was late. Instead I took some of my first obsession when a camera is placed in my hands. Clouds. I limited myself to just four photos, ok I ran out of time as the sun had completed disappeared. So the pictures of the sunset are taken w...

"My god, Vanessa's got a fabulous body... I bet she shags like a minx... How do I let them know because of the unfreezing process, I have no inner monologue? I hope I didn't just say that all out loud just now. " Austin Powers It has been a productive week, as we have got over the excitement of being in a country where everyone speaks English, a...

We flew over to Perth and immediately set about gettin a bus to go up the coast. We were beginning to run out of time so we knew we couldn't get the whole way up so we decided to get a jump on-jump off bus as far as we could. As soon as we left perth the weather started to get really nice and hot and by the time we got to teh Pinnacles dessert i...

Lisa actually manages to get out of bed at a reasonable hour and looking well considering her over-indulgence last night. But after breakfast the facade falls away and Lisa is really struggling - tired and not a little hungover. Most of the afternoon is spent worrying that we don't have a car yet. Then we are finally called by the guy from yeste...

Lisa was working today, helping a guy spring clean his house because his kids were too lazy to help out. I spend the day in Perth going round every hostel in the Lonely Planet book looking for cars. Again I have no luck wrong rego, wrong make or just too damn expensive. Back in Fremantle, I go round the hostel notice boards again but still nothi...

After a few days swanning around Perth, I thought I'd head out and see what WA's port town of Fremantle had to offer. I was going to cycle the 30k, but the sky was looking somewhat inclement in what has been an unusually cool and wet start to spring on the west coast. I thought better of it and took the train and the bus... a combination of the ...

Things are going well here in Fremantle, the hostel I'm staying at is really nice and there is plenty of space here. There is also a really nice girls only dorm area I'm staying in which has seperate bathrooms, living room and kitchen area, so it's really comfortable. I have also met up with my friend Rob who I met in Sydney, so i have someone t...