By the time we left the park in the morning, almost everyone else was either preparing to go, going, or gone, leaving the park very empty, and the way we presume it usually is when Woolorama is not on.
While eating breakfast, a fellow camper came across and we were discussing the costs of caravanning versus [...]
During the night, it did rain, and Diana lay awake for a couple of hours waiting for the giant deluge she imagined would dump upon her because she was in a tent. However, because we’d known the rain was coming, Trav had checked and double-checked the tent for weather-sealing (as well as he could in [...]
For the first time in the past eight mornings, we woke to find dull grey, leaden skies, instead of the usual sunny brilliance we had become accustomed to. It was not raining, but trying very hard to get started, with some small drops hitting us as a reminder to pack the tent up quickly. While [...]
Although we’d asked the takeaway shop owner about the local tourist attractions last night when we were ordering dinner, we decided to pass on her suggestion of visiting her street with four drug dealers and two prostitutes. After a bit of reading in the official (though duller) Bunbury Tourist Bureau, we decided to drive east [...]
Went on a tour of a rock lobster factory today, where lobsters are brought to for live export to (predominantly) Asian markets. The tour was absolutely free, despite the fact that the tourism guide said there would be a donation fee. They used to ask for a donation, and would then give it to charity, [...]
Packed up camp this morning in very short time indeed - we are getting more and more of a routine going, so it is getting easier. Debated over whether or not to see the first dolphin feeding again, but decided it was better to keep the numbers down so that other people only seeing them [...]
Feeding dolphins on the beach at Monkey Mia
Courtesy of some extremely vocal cockatoos, we were woken well before the alarm was set, so Diana cursed at them and rolled over, while Trav decided it was easier to just get up for the day. Wandering into town, he found a supermarket open at 6:30am on Sunday, which was an incredible surprise for such [...]
Awoke nice and refreshed to find that Diana had survived her first ever night in a tent unscathed by the various imagined dangers she had been worried about attacking her.
Driving out of Fremantle toward Perth, we proved that we had still to get our navigation/driving skills issue resolved. After following Diana’s directions for several kilometres, [...]
At long last, the big day arrived, and we were finally bound for Western Australia. After spending so long waiting for the trip to finally arrive from the day we purchased the flight tickets, we still managed to pack late the night before, and be in a state of panic as to whether or not [...]
