Here I Go Again

Apologies for being so rubbish at blogging, I’ve got loads to tell you but no time to write it all up. I have written it down though so I wont forget and will try to blog it all when I can.

Basically over the last few days we came back from Albany and we’ve been to the Pinnacles and yesterday we went to the Wave Rock which was 360km east and its a crazy rock that looks like a wave funnily enough which was cool.

We’ve checked out now and are gonna start the next leg up to Darwin. We were originally going to get the Indian Pacific train from here (Perth) to Adelaide and then from there to Melbourne then Sydney but now we’re gonna drive up to Darwin with our new buddy Jelle (pronounced something like yeller, but I call him Jelly) which should work out cheaper and we get to see the north of Australia.

So, I’ll let you know how we get on, I don’t know when I’ll next get online, hopefully sooner rather than later.

The Wave Rock

This is the Albany Highway ^ and nice it may look, soon gets a bit boring after about 100km and we were on it for 400. The road kill is different here, whereas back home you’ll get the odd hedgehog or maybe even a squirrel, down here its kangaroos, I was quite excited to see my first kangaroo I didn’t expect it to be a dead one, in fact I haven’t seen any live ones yet.

We reached Albany just before it was getting dark so by the time we got checked in to the hostel and moved our bags in the sun was going down and we had a look around. My first impressions of the town were good and were heightened after the pizza. We played some pool then back at the hostel for a bit then saw a listings sheet for the local cinema that was showing Transformers! This was a no-brainer so set off. The cinema didn’t look anything special, from the outside it looked like a fairly standard small town cinema and the foyer was only big enough for the sales desk thing, some sweet shelves and a small queue but the actual screen was actually quite big fair play so I was pleasantly surprised. Transformers is awesome by the way!

The Australians seem to like their films though, they’re very vocal when watching them, there were a lot of ‘yay’s and ‘boo’s at the appropriate parts which I found quite funny, back home people are usually quite quiet until there’s a funny bit worth laughing at.

We found this bar last night (Thurs 28/06) called Mustangs which is cool, it plays Fox sports on the projector and always has mountain biking videos playing on one of the TV screens. They were running a pool and table tennis competitions that night too, we joined the pool one which cost $5 and you get a free beer (which we actually worked out that it was cheaper to keep buying into the pool competition than to buy beers on their own - and you get a game of pool). Jonny was up first and did quite well against a guy called Ralph, he managed to get to the black but Ralph ended up getting it first. Then it was my go, I was playing a guy called Jerry. I lost, quite quickly actually, I started chatting to Jerry afterwards and he told me he knew he was going to win as soon as he saw the way I held the cue. He also told me that he’s been winning the pool competition there for 3 weeks and has won 491 competitions altogether… I should have know my chances were low when he pulled a nail file out of his pocket to smooth his cue tip before we started the game. Later on he pulled me aside and showed me a few things like how to hold the cue and a few other secrets I won’t share so that I can try and have some sort of advantage next time I play. We didn’t have time to join the table tennis one though which was a shame ‘coz I’m sure I could have won a few matches there after watching some of the other players, maybe next time. Jerry’s the guy in the read Coca Cola tshirt, and later on his hands and knees trying to break dance.

Well Its been a busy few days so havn’t had chance to blog and still havn’t really so thought I’d just do a little update with links to all pics from the last few days. Enjoy.

See all the pictures in the album >

Me again. Im in Perth now so someone please pass that on to Mam so she doesn’t get worried! Which she probably has already. Im having a good time here in the future. We’re in the hostel and are in a four bed dorm, I had to wait for this one guy to go coz he was still using my bed when he shouldnt be here and some girl is still using my cuboard, apart from that the showers are good and we’ve got the car after spending 20 mins looking for it this morning at the airport. We just had a walk round Perth to see whats about and had a meal in this itallian(i think) place. Very nice. Im gonna sleep tonight though, time travel is weird. I am taking pictures but will have to find a creative way to get them up here somehow, im using one of the hostels computers at the mo and don’t think they let you connect cameras or whatever. I’ll let you know!

*Update*

21:08 here 14:20 your end.

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Hello! I’m in Singapore airport, we just landed and I found this Internet terminal thing and our flight has been delayed an hour so i’m taking advantage! I’s good the flights been delayed though because we were late taking off from heathrow so would have had to just run the length of this airport in 5 mins!!

Its really weird coz its 8.30am here 1.30am where you are and we took off at 1.30pm yesterday so where 7 hours ahead and the flight was 12 hours…. the mind boggles!!

Anywho, I’ll post again next time I find a connection to the interweb.

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