Enter: Western Australia

Is now 3am and I decided to finish this now.. I was wondering why i even bother to post this even there is virtually nobody reading this blog (average 2 people visits a day).

You know when we planned our annual family trip, we didn intend to go WA which I had already gotoo  many many times. Initially, we wanted to go to Melbourne but in the end we end up in Perth because of the outbreak of H1N1. Well, crap aside, I shall begins on my trip.

Perth is still as boring as ever, the only interesting thing I can find is KPMG Perth which lies somewhere in the buildings below..

On the first day, we got a pretty crap apartment which is even quite expensive. Well, just remember one thing you need to know if you ever go to perth. Every accomodation near the city area is expensive and old.

And despite how tired you are, never seat on a chair without looking..

Well, you know Perth is really a boring place, so we might just go straight to the road trip. The plan is, we travelled down south and make our way slowly north back to Perth.

We reached Albany after 6 hrs of taxing drive. Is disappointing because there was a storm along the south western coast on the 1st day of the road trip. We were greeted by very strong wind and of course, not to mention how cold it was (10 degrees). Alas, we has to cut our day short because of the rain and the freezing temperature on the 1st day of the trip.

Well, when you see this in discovery channel, you may say, “argh.. not again”. But then when you really get close to see one like this, you may say, “Wad the, Oh my..” well, I leave the rest to you.

This was supposed to be the most anticipated place of interest of the entire trip, it was of course spoilt by freezing wind, glaring sunlight and of course the gloomy clouds.

No matter how you see it, it is still pretty scary to stay under the gigantic “fan”

Of course on the next morning, you will go quite crazy and try to visit as much places as possible. The wind is still furious but it didn stopped us from going wild.

Someone please guess where is this place.

Well, as you can see behind the eskimo, is a paranomic view of the “natural bridge” in albany. 3 of my friends once lie on top of the bridge and survived. Of course the view is partially blocked by the eskimo, who is my mum, and was so cold from the chilling wind. For privacy sake, you can copy all the pictures you want except this. And don’t ever tell my mum that i posted this online.

In Australia, you can find all these small pathetic towns with population ranges from 50 to 1000. As you can see, we were currently at Denmark. You may really wonder why there are people living in such places. Some of them are immigrants and I can find hongkees, and etc from these places. Take from Albany, there was actually one HongKee staying there for a whooping 14 years, opening a chinese restaurant there. The funniest thing is that whenever he goes to Perth after the horrible 5 hrs drive, he will buy 100 buns just to prepare for another season of hiberation in a place no one knows of.

Well, is the real tree top walk! At the max. height of 50 metres, you can see the whole view is blocked by these giant trees that was born maybe a century ago.

Not to mention, after that crazy day, which included a visit to the animal farm, we were haunted by a horrifying drive to a place called Pemberton. We underestimated our time to travel there which nearly took us 4 hours. We were lost thanks to our crazy GPS which kept telling us to “U-turn” even we were heading towards the right direction (that is really scary). To add to our fear, the GPS keep telling us to tell left/right into mud roads which we knew it would lead us to no man’s land.  And as the sky going dark, you really don’t want to drive because you will see nothing in between these giant trees. To add to our fear, we got no idea where we were and it is not a very funny idea when you have to sleep in the car when all the funny animals like kangaroo comes out.

Thank God just before the sky grows COMPLETELY dark, we saw some faint light in front of us and we knew we finally reached our destination. Thanks to Gabriel and the power of internet, we were able to find the place to stay in Pemberton under the conditions of complete darkness and unknow land.

At least, we celebrated our adventure with a fabulous meal at the hotel. Ordered oysters, steak, lamb chop and some thing i forget..

Of course as we continued the journey up North back to Perth, we tried to find as much places of interest as possible. Here we are at windy harbor, the cliffs on the background is really beautiful.

You know, that day was really amazing. We are “just in time” for all the places we went. Take for this limstone cave, which is really errie, we reached just in time for the tour to starts. Before we reached there, we didn’t know the schedule and we would have to wait for another hour if we missed the time.

And of course,Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse near Augusta. We reached 15 minutes before it closed and the guy allowed us to proceed with an entrance fee of $2 for all 5 of us. It normally takes 5 bucks per head to enter this premises but our timing just can’t be much better. The best thing is we even saw a whale near the coast and of course my father was frantic about it though you can watch one easily on “Animal Planet”.Thank God for that night because it truly the best day of all. We ended up in a hotel celebrating with a dinner cooked by ourselves which turned out the best meal of the trip. BBQ Steaks, chicken wings, sausages, soup and pasta.

Oh, PAYBACK TIME for the scary drive, kangaroo meat.. tasted like char siew for some reasons..

Just before I conclude, we ended up at Margaret River and bought some wine from there. The picture is taken near the river mouth and to be honest, there is nth special there. The only interesting thing you can see is the small river mouth and you will learn water do really flows from the river to the sea!

Simba is the Lion King and he was so called declared king when a ray of light falls on him. Well, I wonder when Jesus comes back, will there a ray of light falls on Him too?

Last of all, you must know which powderful car brought us around in WA travelling thousands of kilometres which is only a small corner of Australia.

This is the tarago, they call it an Estima in SG, with 7 seaters that brought my family of 5 includes our bulky lugguages around WA.

Thanks to my dad who took this wonderful picture of me and for the preparation and planning of the trip

Thanks to my cell grp who prayed so hard for the safety for this trip.

Thank God for being the provider of this trip.

Stay tune for part 2. And please, leave a comment so that I know someone is reading my blog!

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