Hello all and greetings from Western Australia! Apologies that our updates have been few and far between recently - surprisingly net access is a lot harder to come by here that it was in Asia.
At the moment we're in Pemberton, which is a pretty little town in the middle of beautiful Karri forests. We've spent the day wandering through the forests, and attempting to climb the look-out trees which are used to spot forest fires. Unfortunately the only way up the trees is to climb up the spokes drilled into the side of the trees in a spiral pattern from the floor to the top (100+ meters in the air). There aren't any harnesses or ropes, and we were surprised not to spot anyone plumetting to the forest floor! I made it about halfway up before my nerve failed me - maybe I'll have another go tomorrow (or maybe not).
We're really enjoying our drive round the south west of Australia. We started in Margaret River, which is famed for its vineyards. The town itself wasn't too exciting, but we enjoyed our wine-tasting tour (although not as much as the chocolate tasting one that followed!). We spent the next couple of days in the extreme southwest - staying in a tiny town called Augusta, which has beautiful views over the river and oceans. We went up a lighthouse on Leeuwin Cape, which is where the Indian and Southern Oceans meet. It's a stunning place, especially as we had a couple of really sunny days there. The wind sure does pick up though - we had a disturbed night's sleep in Augusta due to the wind whistling through our hotel room.....
Our first impressions of Australia are really positive. WA is a beautiful state and the people are very friendly and chatty. The weather isn't the wall to wall blazing sunshine we had expected, but its actually a nice change after the sweltering humidity of the last few weeks.
OK, I'll try to upload some photos but the connection is a bit slow here so probably won't be able to catch up with the last week.
We're staying in a nice hotel tonight with "solar heated" (ie cold) swimming pool and a nice collection of DVDs, so we're just heading back now to watch The Queen and dream of England (and Scotland). Bye!
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Margaret River is also famed for its windsurfing! You'll understand why.
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