I'm hopelessly behind updating this, but I can't help right now.
We started really early on Sunday as we knew it would be a long and hard drive up to Denham, ca. 830km from Perth.
I don't mind long drives, actually they give you some chance to see the country and be able to stop whereever you like, something just not possible when you go by train or plane. It was nice seeing the landscape change as we went, from the green, lush area in the Swan Valley to the grasslands and smaller trees right until Geraldon. After Geralton something funny happened. Normally I'm not one for cliches, but when we left town
again the trees gave way to little struppy bushes and the ground turned red and I thought, for the first time in three weeks "Wow, this is like.......AUSTRALIA" . You know , the picture you unconsciously have in mind when you think of Down Under, blue sky, red earth, silvery green gum trees and all that. It was all there.
Together with five kangaroos, two emus, two wallabies, one fox and one bilby, all between Perth and Denham. Dead, by the side of the road. And I'm only talking of the ones the birds had not yet taking care of. Yuk.
In spite of all prophecies of doom, we made it in 8.5h. Which is quite a good time I think, given that we weren't speeding and had three breaks during the day. But when we arrived we were glad to have a bed waiting 20 m from the beach and a beautiful sunset to end the day with.
We started really early on Sunday as we knew it would be a long and hard drive up to Denham, ca. 830km from Perth.I don't mind long drives, actually they give you some chance to see the country and be able to stop whereever you like, something just not possible when you go by train or plane. It was nice seeing the landscape change as we went, from the green, lush area in the Swan Valley to the grasslands and smaller trees right until Geraldon. After Geralton something funny happened. Normally I'm not one for cliches, but when we left town
again the trees gave way to little struppy bushes and the ground turned red and I thought, for the first time in three weeks "Wow, this is like.......AUSTRALIA" . You know , the picture you unconsciously have in mind when you think of Down Under, blue sky, red earth, silvery green gum trees and all that. It was all there.Together with five kangaroos, two emus, two wallabies, one fox and one bilby, all between Perth and Denham. Dead, by the side of the road. And I'm only talking of the ones the birds had not yet taking care of. Yuk.
In spite of all prophecies of doom, we made it in 8.5h. Which is quite a good time I think, given that we weren't speeding and had three breaks during the day. But when we arrived we were glad to have a bed waiting 20 m from the beach and a beautiful sunset to end the day with.
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