Santiago... We think....
Karen after 19000 miles and 34 hours airborne from Sydney to Santiago....
Notice thermal scanning for Swine Flu going on in the background.
Nick
Karen after 19000 miles and 34 hours airborne from Sydney to Santiago....
Notice thermal scanning for Swine Flu going on in the background.
Nick
Made it back to Oz after 11 days of island isolation in Vanuatu. Karen is already befriending the city's roos...
Relaxing in Kalgoorlie after a long drive up from the coast. Nick looking forward to the Super Pit... Karen wondering why she's been dragged from a nice beach into the middle of nowhere...
We made it to this outpost of civilisation, 426km east of Albany, via a night camping in the Fitzgerald River National Park, at a reasonable time for once and celebrated with scones, jam, cream, strawberries and tea/hot chocolate in the caravan park (Brits on holiday!)
Tomorrow we explore Esperance and Cape Le Grand, about 50km east - meant to have great beaches, so hopefully the clouds will clear up.
Love Karen
This one got stuck in the outbox for a couple of days...
It took a while (thanks to no booze sales in Oz on Good Friday) for Nick to finally make it to a brewery to balance out all the wineries. This is Jarrah Jacks near Pemberton.
Love Karen
Also a couple of days delayed...the same day as our visit to the brewery but a bit further on and refreshed by free coffee at the driver reviver stop on the highway, staffed by two nice old locals who didn't have much else to do on Easter Sunday. Just outside the small town of Walpole, heading east along the coast towards Denmark, lies the Valley of the Giants Treetop Walk among the tingle and karri trees (marri and jarrah are the other 2 local trees - sounds to me characters from a kid's TV show). They grow to a good 60-85m high and the canapy walk was specifically designed to sway...no place for someone with motion sickness, vertigo or a fear of heights...we enjoyed it!
Love Karen
Karen with strange "living rocks" in Lake Clifton, south of Perth. A modern day example of organisms that existed 600 million years ago (the thrombolites that is, not Karen!)
Diving here tomorrow - Busselton jetty, at 1.8km, the longest in the Southern Hemisphere.
Nick -
Nick sampling the local brew at Little Creatures in Fremantle, Western Australia...
Karen