Still in Western Australia.

Background information from Monkey Mia a couple of days previous…

Three other backpackers from Switzerland arrived late in the evening - two girls and a guy - in a very small car they’d hired from Perth. All three of them were sleeping in a small tent, so we tried to guess how the guy had gotten lucky enough to be crammed into a tent between two good-looking girls. They’d only been in the country for two days, but we figured he’d be definitely enjoying Australia so far…*grin*

Now you have the background, here’s today’s winner…

Interestingly, we ran into the Swiss travellers from Monkey Mia again in the Bunbury Caravan Park, although their numbers were now depleted, with one of the girls leaving. Apparently she was not originally travelling with them, and they’d found her just standing crying in the Perth airport upon their arrival. She had been on the same flight as them but did not know anyone in Australia or on the flight. They recognised her as having been on the same flight and had offered her a chance to travel with them, because she expressed a desire to get straight back on the plane home.

After the drive to Monkey Mia though, she got them to drop her off at the Perth airport again and she flew home because she did not like the countryside. The main problem for her was that it looked nothing like Switzerland, which we thought was actually the point of travelling, as did the remaining Swiss travellers. Ah well, it cost her roughly $3000AUD to see the dolphins in Monkey Mia, so we hope the dolphins were impressed by her visit, even if she wasn’t. Given she was in the country for only 3 days, we doubt she got her $1000 per day value…

Still, she did not go home empty handed. She took with her the glory of being crowned our SPOTD. And probably some really tacky kangaroo souvenir from Perth Airport to prove she’d been there…

Categories: SPOTD