G.O. W.A.
Trip Start
Feb 26, 2004
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Trip End
Nov 16, 2006
Broome,
Australia
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
So, with that completely unfounded statement which dismissed nearly a third of the country still ringing in my ears, we started our drive up the coast. Of course, there was loads to see and I've decided to list some of the highlights under the six Trivial Pursuit Genus Edition categories (for no particular reason):
Geography
Saw some amazing blowholes which shot water 20 or 30 metres up. Photos will be good.
Entertainment
Probably the highlight of the West Coast so far was the Hut River Province, an area which claims and is recognised to be it's own country
1 - Me hugging a Pinnacle
. It has it's own currency and postage stamps and we got our passport stamped on entry and exit. Even met Prince Leonard who has a Hut River Province passport. Princess Shirley was out hanging up the washing.History
Visited the stromatolites, the oldest living thing in the world which first produced enough oxygen to make the world inhabitable for us. Said thanks.
Arts & Literature
I bought a book by Cliff Richard for 20 cents. It's amazing.
Science & Nature
We went wading with dolphins. Brilliant. I'd heard that once you look in to the eye of the dolphin you're never the same. Possibly a load of crap.
Sports & Leisure
We've bought snorkels and managed to explore Ningaloo Reef a bit. Pretty impressive.
2 - Me with Prince Leonard
The north is hot. Really hot. Hotter than Mena Suvari and Denise Swanepoel wrapped in tin foil listening to Nico in a car with the windows up parked in a chicken shed.
And it's dry. Really dry. Drier than a dead dingo's donger. But apparently it'll be the wet season soon enough and then it gets really wet. There's loads of flood warnings on the roads, but it just seems bizarre at the moment because all the rivers are dried up.
Kelly, my adopted sister, has left us and has flown off to Thailand, before she heads home to work, and possibly drive round England and Ireland in a van. I'm trying to convince her to write a book. If she can capture just a fraction of her coolness and optimism than it'll be brilliant. I think it could rival the sales of the Holy Bible (but of course her book will be non-fiction).
Broome seems good. Reminds me of Myrtle Beach (which doesn't really paint a good picture I know). We've already bumped in to one of the lads from the chicken farm, and a girl from Raheny who I know through Orla.
So there we go. There's loads up the west coast. I don't know where Power got the idea there's nothing along the west coast, but I suspect it was from the same place he got the ideas that "Perth is a big village" and "Oasis are better than the Beatles" (namely, his ass). When I meet up with him in Sydney, as good a friend as he is, the first thing I'm going to do is punch him in the back of the head.
