Perff - MILDY photo intensive ( I will have a different post for my film shots )
Been so long since i did a post I thought I should do something long for when i came back from perth.
Most of you should know by now that we are back.
The trip was pretty much a rush, but a really enjoyable rush.
I was seriously super exhausted by trying to arrange stuff but it was worth it in the end since the trip went pretty smoothly.
First I suppose I better thank those on the trip:
1) Mg for being treasurer and keeping the funds in order
2) Charlene for Doing her research for the trip despite the fact I under-estimated her (haha)
3) Jemy for the intensive driving dispite minor illnesses
4) Samuel for driving and not crashing when you were high on nerds (Dental advisory, hes a sugar junkie)
5) Jen Wen for helping navigate and act as co-driver. OH and your wonderful credit card..
6) Pow Wee for waking me up at 7 AM IN THE MORNING WHEN I SLEPT LAST AT 3AM and also for protecting the money mg was carrying
Anyhow it was a fun road trip in the end, short and intensive, but fun. If only we had a couple more days, then we wouldnt need to rush, but oh well...
I have to apologise first for the poor pictures taken by my me, i feel they really are sub-par.
If you do want to see better pictures, check out Jems post.
If you do want to know more about the trip than I said, do approach me as I got very lazy towards the end.
There were too many pictures so I put tons of them onto a collage, hopfully they arent too hard to see
Day 1:
The flight there wasnt as long as I thought it would be. Well, or rather as uncomfortable as I thought it would be. Compared to the Hong Kong flight I took a year ago, I thought the flight this time was really smooth and time passed pretty fast. Jem and I even said"what?! there already" - And this was after 5 hours in the plane.
The view outside the window. Pretty aint it?
MMmm... sodium enriched Noodles that we ate to fill our stomachs in the plane. Failed terribly at doing that, rather I recall it made me a lot hungrier....
Arrvied at the Hotel only to see.....
The new Aussie crazzzzzyy pop sensation....I seriously hope not too many people see this - Notice its a lot smaller than the rest? Picture is courtesy of JEMY
By the time we left the airport and got to the hotel, it was pretty late, close to 1 if i remember correctly. Anyway in the end we headed downtown to find food and BOY DID WE FIND FOOD. But guess who was finding food? THE HORDE!!!! - Hobos
After a macs supper, we headed back to the hotel and guess what happened on the way back? IT RAINED and froze us all up at the same time trapping us on one side of the road. Oh well we just dashed across the road and popped back into the room for a shower and sleep. To be more accurate, MOST OF US actually showered. Hahaha SOME of us didnt shower. Ill leave you guys to smell them out .. mmmmmmm
I was awakened by a CRAAZZZZYYY guy at 7AM in the morning even though I told everyone to get ready by 8.30. So after a little rolling around in the morning to wake all of us up, we left for breakfast at a nearby subway before heading off to Caversham wildlife park, AKA their zoo. It wasnt a SUPER awesome zoo, but they had nice animals there and the farm show was quite interesting.
Collage of the stuff we saw there.. I just love the kangaroossssssss. Wish I had one for a pet ! Doesnt he make you wanna hug him?
Why are you so sleepy !!!
Samuel feeding them Weed in a pill, they were really addicted.
Jem and the sleepy koala... hahaha
Video of JenWen messing with the bird, haha worth checking out for a bit.
The wombat was really really really FAT, cow milking was fun, sheep shearing look hypnotic on the sheep(charlene the sheep look painful) and most of the koalas and kangaroos/wallaby were ASLEEP ... seesh..
The view from the bus stop while waiting for the bus to go back to the city from the wildlife park. We thought we missed the last bus since there was no one else here and not a bus in sight.
View of the streets of perth at around 5.30 IN THE AFTERNOON We had pizza/burgers/fries(again)/pides for dinner. Hence ends the first day2, which was more like day 1 since day one was really more like NIGHT 1 but for ease ill call it day 1 and day2.
Day 3: Jem, Mg and myself woke up to get the car from rental company. Twas a COLD COLD morning and thank goodness we managed to get a coffee/tea at dome along the way to the rental company. The flat white I had was pretty good and it really warmed me up well.... mm....... Picture again courtesy of Jemy - you can see the great drinks that warmed us up.
Anyway we managed to find our way to the rental place and picked up the Hippopotamus of a car. I realised we dont really have pictures of the OUTSIDE of the car, but be assured, it was a horrendously huge car that can actually take about 8 people. And i do mean 8 people with SEAT BELTS for each person.Not that most of the people behind worse beats anyway.
After picking the rest of them up and slowly figuring out how to work the drattedly small screened GPS, we headed down to fremantle to go to prison and eat fish and chips.
Er I didnt mean eat fish and chips in prison.
SOY if you hadnt guessed by now, is actually Shit on you .. hahah and i think they WILL do that.. Great fish and chips they served there!! only problem was that there was TOO MUCH CHIPS (again)
Panorama of a jetty at freemantle - Check Samuel out on the right side.
After the yummy albeit unhealthy fish and CHIPS(AGAIN!), we headed off to prison and just like monopoly, we were JUST VISITING !!
Never ending rows of tiny windows in the prison.
There was a live exhibit of two poor souls trapped in a cell.
One of the prison cells where an in-mate really went all out and painted such a pretty picture.
Contemplating about his life
Managed to find this last peep hole. It was one last look at the prison just before we left for the freemantle market. Next 2 pictures are again courtesy of Jemy, I basically didnt take that many photos this trip, or at least so much happened that I got a bit lazy to document it all. haha..
Charlene and myself infront of the crepe shop where I had maple and butter crepe, yum yum.
Lovely strawberries After the market we went off to Bunbury.
After the market, we got confused trying to figure out the fastest route there thanks to the stupid GPS going a bit crazy and we took quite sometime trying to get our way there. Then when everything worked, it started to rain again. At this point of course it didnt really mean that much to us, but BOY were we about to find out once we reached the next town that the temperature was REALLY going to drop.
After reaching the hostel at bunbury and stepping out of the car, we found smoke coming out of our mouths and yes, it was super COLD. To make things worse, the hostel had no heating except for hot water in the showers which were communal. So we had to prepare to rough it out in this weather Anyhow, we headed to town for food which barely had anything open, so we settled for pizza at a local pizzeria that was one of the cheaper things that were open.
Thats the lot of us eating the pizza. I thought the Meat lovers was pretty good... yum yum ... Nice and hot and delicious...
After that we left to return to the hostel again and checked out a couple of shops in town ( which were closed) .
HEH HEH... Caught the whole bunch of them checking out the goods at a sex store.. ahhaha...
Reaching the hostel again, we took FREEZING SHOWERS. The shower was hot, it was when the showers STOPPED that it REALLY REALLY REALLY got cold. And Jeremy ran to the showers topless!! brave hero indeed. So anyhow we got into bed and despite the cold somehow we got to sleep.
Day 4: Woke up early to get going down to Margaret River so that we could check out the sights there. We went to a Chocolate Factory, Nut and Cereal farm, some wineries and one of their local caves there.
The vines at the vineyard were pretty much dead since it was the winter so not really any pics. The Nuts and the cereal factory was mostly checking out the food on sale. Got some walnuts for my mum there.
View at the farm and the view at the mouth of Margaret river
Jen Wen and Charlene at the mouth of Margaret River
More scenes from the same beach.
FAILED PANORAMA of the mouth of the river.. Really need to learn from Jem.
My 2nd most stead picture in the cave.
My most steady hand in the cave. If you realise, the columns are actually not touching the ground. That was where the ground used to be but was eroded by the lake in the cave. Hence, its called LAKE CAVE.. hahaha what a name
This was the most stead shot i got, BUT i cheated, i balanced it on something.
Jeremy as happy as a cheerleader, so happy his head moved but his body didnt .. haha
Mg, was so scared that she brought in her flash light into the cave to fight the darkness with ... =P shes gonna kill me if she reads this.
After the caves, we headed off to find the cottage we booked at pemberton. Well, actually we had lunch first, but as usual I have no photos on it. Was fried chicken and CHIPS (AGAIN?!?!?)
The Sky along the way to our little cottage in Pembertons Kari forest. My terrible photography skills mixed with a compact camera tends to end up in such horrid sub-par results, but the sky was really nice.
We finally made it to the cottage in Pemberton through the help of LOUSY GPS and Jen Wens wiki maps in the nick of time. It was turned dark as you could see from the previous pic, a short while later it would turn completely dark. I really should have loaded a more detailed google maps onto my phone but i had no time. Oh well im back in one piece so lesson learnt ..
At the cottage, we made dinner there since there was pretty much no food available at that time of the night. The cooking crew was made up of - Charlene, Mg, Me and for a bit Jen Wen We had spaghetti with meat balls and sausage and some simple vegetables. But in order to make the meal, you need the raw ingredients which we didnt have. so...... We drove out into town when it was dark, and if you looked into the mirror, you would realise that it was COMPLETELY COMPLETELY PITCH DARK. You couldnt even see a foot behind the car. I was more worried about animals that would suddenly run out and become road kill .. I think those are more dangerous since you cant really see them except when they look at you.
I didnt get any pics of the dinner we made though, this again was courtesy of Jem.
Had dinner in front of the nice fireplace Nice citrus wine though not everyone liked the slightly too citrusy taste.. haha. With Dinner done, the wash up crew kicked into action - Consisted on Samuel and Pow Wee and I cant remember who else. The part that sucked about washing up was the FROZEN FATS AND OIL. YUCK. It got stuck on our fingers. Gosh...
Once done with wash up, Jem, Sam and Dan went to take a bath in the ERATIC water. It couldnt make up its mind if it wanted to stay cold or stay hot. If i flushed the toilet, the water would turn hot on samuel. When Jem Turned the tap on to brush his teeth, the water would turn cold on samuel. f course you could hear his screams a mile away... haha what a crazy friend. After the nice cold/hot bath we all knocked out till the next morning.
Day 5: After breakfast, scrambled eggs bacon toast and milk, which again we made ( Jen Wen and Myself since the rest needed a bit more sleep) we headed off to Albany ZOOM ZOOM........
JEMY BREAKING THE SOUND BARRIER!!!!! - View from the car ( no editing involved )
Along the way we stopped by for a pee break and the 3 Doofuses ended up taking a leak into the forest since the toilet was SUPER SUPER SUPER dirty. Anyhow that was where we began to find the road to Narnia in the valley of the giants!!
The road to Narina
Samuel, "look Mg, the road to Narnia!" Mg, "HEY GUYS OVER HERE!!! We found the road to Narnia" Samuel, "Hehe... shes so easy to bluff"
My burger stabbed to dead and then eaten by me .. yum yum .. We still need food to get there!
I didnt realise it but all three have the same reaction on the face," WHERE DO I BEGIN EATING?!?! The THING IS SO BIG!!!!"
Crossing the Valley of the Giants in order to reach Narnia
Samuel Emergency braked and jammed everyone else. He cant help but smile at a camera. =)
After the bridge, we Finally got to Narnia!!! Check out the funny tree!!
Check out the funny person doing squats in front of the tree!!
SPOT THE NINJA!!!
Everyone inside of a tree After finishing the valley, we left for Albany for the night. And of course, I didnt take pictures again .. ahhaha.. im starting to get lazy and feel bad that i keep using Jemys super pictures.
Day 6: Stayed the night at The All Seasons Country Manna. It was a cheap and comfortable motel. Only thing was I shared 2 single beds joined together with Samuel and Pow Wee. When I woke up, I found Samuel and me pretty much sharing a single bed and Pow Wee hogging the WHOLE other bed to himself. Apparently he pushed Koh over to myside in his sleep ... Anyway breakfast we headed to the Gap and headed to the wind farm down by the coast.
Practicing to be a wind mill when i grow old.
Pretty Windmills Loads of Zhi pai going on Lonely road to nowhere
Panorama of the windfarm. Check the tiny bits of people at the FAR right on the hill, thats the rest of the gang. Later I joined the rest of them there and the view was just FANTASTIC...
OOPSS!! Sorry Jen Wen !! i didnt mean to push you !!!
Panorama of the Gap
Was so windy there
The amount of froth was so much the water actually turned a milky white. Was so nice....
Mg looks like she is stuck in the rocks !!
Done with the coast, we headed off back to Perth via the Albany highway. Was quite a long drive, about 4 hours if we didnt stop along the way, but of course we did so it ended up around 5. haha..
Eh?!? "NANYATE?!?"
Crazy people
A Burger Big enough to cover my face from hungry Jacks.. Weeee Inside the bag though, lay a pack of CHIPS....(NOT AGAIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) I think for the first time in my life i was really sick of all the fried food and junk I had been putting in my body. The chips were always so salty that even the SALT QUEEN Charlene was sick of it!! Signs to lead the way, but wait.. TO WHERE!??! ICTS?!?!? I DONT WANT ICT !!! NO IN CAMP TRAINING !!!!
This was actually the halfway mark where the drivers switched over though and we didnt stop after that so we reached back pretty fast.
When we finally reached the Perth area, we stopped by at sizzlers for our most expensive meal in the entire trip. It was $30 Aud 30AUD!!!!!!!!! - Jeremy was VERY unhappy. He said he only has ONE AUD(RIE)!!!! haha too bad audrie wont see this Jem...
The Sizzlers dinner that left me highly unsatisfied. The meat was too dry and tough for my liking
Thats how MUCH Sam had to chew.. lol
The Clean up crew for the car. The third poor Sod was actually holding the camera.
Samuel refusing to get up. After checking out we went for lunch on the streets. we sat some stairs and just had lunch there
The Chicken before lunch
The chicken AFTER lunch ... mmm..... no prizes for guessing where it went.. heh heh .... Not pictured is my nice packet of fresh milk that I had so often in the trip. I really had quite a fair bit of that there. It was always so cheap and nice tasting.. yum yum....
The Glass ball dude we saw along the streets Jemy with a present for Audrie.
Samuel after the whole trip, YEAP he got REALLY REALLY REALLY FAT!! Seeing how much weight he put on, we decided that we needed to do some walking DESPERATELY. So we walked up the hill to the war memorial. Along the way we pass this bell tower.
Bell tower that charges quite a bit to just take a walk up it .... definitely a rip off..
Ferris Wheel that we didnt even think about going up.
Closer to the bell tower
Jen Wen and Jeremy on the walking track This was only mid way through the hike to the war memorial.
We had to even cross a RIVER !!! AND YES... we BOTH made it ...
After the river, we found out we had to actually climb an insane hill...
Jen Wen was so darn fit... He was already waiting for us ... The end result is a bunch of really tired people...
View from the top of the hill made the climb worth it though ...
Check out the traffic
I love their sky. So clear that you can see the plane even from so far away
|Back in town already.. Jem was super happy with his photos i think .. haha.. After the hill, we headed back for dinner and then went to the airport already.
Charlene at the airport
Mg at the airport. CHARLENE MADE HER DO IT !!!! I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT !!!
Anyhow we checked in and a short while later guess what we found out, OUR FLIGHT WAS DELAYED.... by fifteen mins.. A bit later we found out it was further delayed!!! by another 15mins.. so it was 30mins... It felt like forever though!! so in the end we took off at 1am in the morning.
Great thing about the flight was that I fell asleep shortly after taking off, and woke up twice. Once to let Jem and Samuel go to the toilet, the other cause samuel said the stars was AWESOME and THEY WERE!!!! They looked so close I could almost touch them. Unfortunately , shortly after I saw the stars, I knocked out again. The next thing I knew, the plane landed and was getting ready to dock. YUP !!! I was completely KNOCKED OUT even during the landing, I didnt even wake up!! Lol.. Guess I was really too tired from the last day in perth. Oh well... Good bye perth, despite the tiring preparations, I sure had a great time there with my pals.
Special collage for the zhi pai-ers!!! heh heh ...
To those who have actually spent their precious time to read this entire post, I sincerely thank thee. I know it wasnt exactly short, but I thought it was high time i left something for others to see.
I once again apologise for my lousy pictures. This really probably my poorest documented trip so far. Thank goodness theres Jem and the rest though, and you can be sure their photos are good!
My film shots from the trip will be posted soon. I was happier with those shots than my digitals =)
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