Sunday, April 18, 2010

Albany to Perth

G’day guys… it’s time for another update on what’s been happening in our world lately.

Since our last update we spent a couple of days in the Albany area while we waited for some mail from home to arrive. This included a night in Porongurup where we went for a 7km trek through the Porongurup National Park and conquered the very steep Devil’s Slide.


Devil's Slide

Once at the top we decided to make the descent a little more interesting… Skeat and Bennett were pretty confident that the quickest way down was not using the track up but instead climbing straight down the mountain over some of the massive rocks while Fussy and Matti thought the track up was the quickest way down. It was on! The terms were the losers cooked the winner’s lunch and had to do all the dishes for the day. After a half hour climb up we were all down in about 3 minutes with Skeat and Bennett being the winners! Good fun!

We also spent a night at nearby Denmark where we had a surf at Ocean Beach. While at Ocean Beach Skeat, Matti and Bennett spent a bit of time waiting for Fussy to come back from Albany with his mail so we continue West. We got fairly bored so got creative with some games to pass the time.


Playing bowls at Ocean Beach

Actually the whole trip, the days have been broken up by small games which have included handball, kicking the footy, throwing games (at and into things) and especially chucking the Frisbee.

From Albany we headed for Pemberton where we did the tree-top walk, climbed the Gloucester Tree (pretty bloody scary), went trout fishing, and drove through some awesome scenery (karri forests).


Tree-top walk


Cruising through the Karri forests


Climbing up the Gloucester Tree


Trout fishing

From Pemberton we headed to Margaret River. We arrived in Margaret River on Saturday so decided to spend the weekend at the Margaret River Caravan Park where we spent most our time drinking and heading out to the local pub, The Settlers Tavern – an awesome pub!


Margaret River Caravan Park campsite


Skeat at work getting us lads a Carona each


Sunday Sesh at the Settlers drinking some red wine

After spending the weekend in the Margaret’s we headed about 15km south of Margaret River to a place called Conto’s which is where we spent the rest of the week as it was a lot cheaper than the caravan park. From here we checked out some of the sites of the area which included amazing beaches (Prev’s man), a few of the local wineries and breweries, a cave, a cheese factory and a chocolate factory. Here are a few photos of us checking out the sites around Marg’s.


Conto's campsite


Waves at Conto's


Path to South Beach near Conto's


Beers at the Duckstein Brewery


In the car on the winery tour


Camping in the camp kitchen after too many nights of getting wet


Lake Cave

From Conto’s we headed for Perth where we had free accommodation at Scarborough Beach in Perth with nice beds, a proper kitchen, a washing machine, walls, a roof and carpet (a nice change from the swags), after a chick we met at Bremer Bay a couple of weeks ago let us stay for the weekend… massive win! Thanks Kara, Jenna and housemates.

We arrived in Perth on Thursday so once settled into our new ‘home’ we got on the beers and goon and headed out to the local, ‘The Indi’. A massive night! While also in Perth we got a tour from the girls of some sites which included visiting Cottesloe and Scarborough beaches, visiting The Little Creatures Brewery (which was awesome as we almost made money while there because we managed to score two plates of nacho’s worth around $40), and watching the Redbull Air Race. Here are a few photos from our time in Perth.


Drinking games in Perth - Thursday night


Cooking a roast dinner for our 'housemates' - haha


Cricket at Scarborough Beach


Redbull Air Race

Anyways that’s all for now but just to finish the post here are a few random photos from the past week or so…


Hens Party with a Moonta Lads Influence


Peters Trumpet???


Perth local

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

G’day everyone. Well our frequent updates aren’t really happening... we are both lazy and having too good a time.

Anyways here is what we have been up to since our last update… we found an awesome campsite hidden in the sand dunes just out of Cape Le Grand National Park. It was an awesome spot with a good beach and it was free! Here are a few photos we got at that spot.



Sunset at Le Grand Beach


Our little stashed dune campsite


Catching waves - Le Grand Beach

After a free night of camping we headed into Cape Le Grand National Park to spend the day and camp the night. While in the National Park we climbed Frenchman Peak and did some fishing which managed to get us 5 massive squid – a great feed for lunch. That night after climbing Frenchman we got on the beers and met a few different groups of fellow road trippers, some local and some international. A good night! During the night we also witnessed something extremely strange… a kangaroo licking blood off the road and eating a dead goanna – we weren’t expecting shit to get weird till we got up north. Here are few photos of our time in Cape Le Grand.


Catching lunch


Hellfire Bay - Cape Le Grand National Park


Frenchman Peak - Cape Le Grand National Park


After a night of paid camping we headed back to our little campsite in the dunes just out of the National Park for the night then headed into Esperance for Sherm’s birthday to stay in a temporary caravan park set up at one of the local ovals. By 1pm we had downed a bottle of Jager and a carton of beer and got stuck into a bottle of vodka – a bit of luxury for our mate’s 21st. We were absolutely legless by dark and none of us really know too much about what happened but we found a pub that was open and made a couple of eventful trips to Macca’s on the way there and back in the cold wet weather.


Sherm's birthday

The day that followed wasn’t much different for Skeat and Fussy as they woke up with a thirst for goon… Named pest 1 and pest 2 they drank all the way west as we received a tip from a local girl in a servo when asked how her easter is she said:”I’d rather be at Bremer Bay.” So that’s where driver 1, driver 2, pest 1 and pest 2 went for the night where we made a few friends and got blind at the local.
Headed off the next day for Albany and after passing through what is a pretty big town we started looking on the map for free campsites and found one at Cosy Corner where after setting up camp a couple of kids came up to us with a goat they had found, Gilbert quickly made friends…


Cosy Corner campsite


Campsite guests

The next day involved a lot of R&R after being woken up early in the morning by distressed goats. A bit of fishing, caught plenty of Australian Herring. The next day we headed for a place called Port Hughes on the map, but had no sign so unfortunately no picture here. Spent the rest of the day doing some washing and stocking up on supplies before heading off into the dark night again to find a free campsite – we are getting good at this. However we awoke to find our swags had been rolled out about 10 meters from a no camping sign. We ventured down onto the beach to finish stage two of our washing a day late which involved some stinky clothes – but we’re used to that by now.
Have since packed them up and are in Albany at a backpackers using their internet and will be out of here again soon to somewhere new!


Matti doing a spot of fishin'


Doing the laundry