Kangaroos everywhere

2 days back (25/4/09) was the last day for my friends to stay in Perth. They will need to go back to Malaysia so on that morning, we decided to go visit Whiteman Park. Its almost 30mins drive from Perth city. We reached there around 11am. Inside Whiteman Park there is a wildlife park named Caversham Wildlife Park. At the park, there are hundreds of animals for us to take pictures. I'm so happy because after i come Australia for almost 15months, this is the 1st time i get to take pictures with kangaroos and koalas. The most important thing is i get to touch them >_< .

Around 2pm there is an animal show which we can take pics with the wombats, owl and baby kangaroo. After the show we are free to go anywhere. There is a big field in the middle of the park where all the kangaroos jumping here and there. Alot of tourist and families get a chance to take pictures with the kangaroos and of coz i'm one of the tourist hehehe. Those kangaroos looks sleepy and keep on yawning. Hmm.. i wonder how many hours they need to sleep per day. Alpaca~ yea this is the animal that i wanna take picture with. While during the trip to albany, we missed out the alpaca farm so this is the time for us to meet the alpaca. Alpaca is huge and it got a little bit look like camel but in a sheep body. Its funny. kekeke. Talk about the koalas at that park, they are all sleepy and lazy. The koalas are just like the koala doll at your home. They will just hug on the tree and didn't move. The worker there told me that koalas need a minimum of 20hours sleeping time.

Its hard to discribe all the animals. You just have to come down and look for yourself. Its fun. After the visiting, we have a picnic at the park. The BBQ machine is just so convenient where u juz need to drop some coins in and it will heat up. You can grill ur food in juz a minute. We really had a good time picnic there.

An almost 1500km trip (Day4)

Good morning Dunsborough! Today everyone gets to wake up a little bit late. As usual after we prepared for our breakfast and lunch, we check out from the hostel and continue our journey. Everyone was fully energetic due to a nice rest. There is not much places that we can visit for that day as it was the last day for our trip. We went to Nilgi Cave visit all the stalagmite and stalactites. We took some wonderful pics inside too. After that, we went visit the Cape Naturaliste Light house and Discovery Centre. We had our lunch at the seaside look-out. Happy time does past very fast. Now is time for us to go back home.

If you ask me how is the trip and the only answer i can tell you is two thumbs up. I hope that next time i will have a chance to go again but not in this hurry. Bye bye down south, coming back home-Perth.

An almost 1500km trip (Day3)

"Let's get moving fellows, its 5.30am now":said Mei but none of us manage to get up. After a few grumble i finally cant stand it and woke up to the kitchen to make breakfast. We had hot dogs and sandwiches *Yummy*.After prepared everything, we bring our breakfast together with us and start our new day. We went back to Denmark to visit the Tingle Tree and Tree Top Walk, Valley of the GIANTS. It was amazing. At the Tingle Tree, the trees are huge and tall but hollow on the bottom. You can actually walk through the tree. Do you still remember when you were young you always saw those tree house in cartoons? Those are tingle tree. It really can stay people *Cool Man~*







After the Tingle Tree, we went to Circular Pool and then Tree Top Walk, Valley of the GIANTS. Can you imagine walking on the height of 30-40ft looking at those giant trees? Its a bit scary. Below the Tree Top Walk there is another trail to the Ancient Walk which at there you can see a lot of tingle trees with big holes on the bottom.Its really amazing.







Opsss is time for lunch. After we had our sandwiches that we prepared early, we drive straight to Busselton. We stopped at Manjimup to have a short rest. We actually planned to go Augusta and Margarat River then on the way to our hostel at Dunsborough but because of insufficiant time, we need to change plan and stop at Busselton then to our hostel. The driving today is far, very far. We spent almost 5hours in the car looking at the scenery outside, full with natural. We reached Busselton Jetty around 5.30pm. We were just in time to enjoy the sunset. The jetty had a very memorable story behind and had become 1 of the tourist place in Busselton. A 30mins drive to Dunsborough, we finally reached the hostel. It is a very nice place where the person incharge there were friendly. Time always wont allow us to do more things. Its 7pm and is totally dark outside. We faster prepare our dinner and hope for going to bed earlier. We met some backpakers there as well and have a good chat with them. Everyone were tired that day. After dinner, we stay inside our room and have some chit chat then go to bed around 11pm.




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An almost 1500km trip (Day2)

*Buzzz..buzzz...buzzz* Oppsss is my mobile alarm. We will need to start the second day journey. It 5.30am and we are the early birds. After a fast brush up, we brought our equiptment and start our visiting. The 1st place of the day will be the Desert Mounted Corps Memorial. It is located on top of a hill and before we reached there, we stopped by half way of the hill to watch sunrise. It was beautiful. Looking down from the hill, there is a thick fog. The houses below was covered by the thick fog and so do the mountain infront of us. As the sun slowly rised up, the fog started to disappeared. It shows that a new day has come and everyone start to work out for their day.








Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. On top of the hill is the Desert Mounted Corps Memorial. More commonly known as the Light Horse Memorial, this memorial commemorates the men of the Australian Light Horse Brigade as well as the New Zealand Mounted Rifles, the Imperial Camel Corps and the Australian Flying Corps who lost their lives in Egypt, Palestine and Syria between 1916 and 1918. I saw a lady jogging there and she told me that in the World War II, Australia and New Zealand soldiers lost their lifes more than any other country. We took a group photo up there and climb to higher part of the hill. Looking down, the bronze statue was like showing its pride on a piece of wide white cloud. How beautiful it is.




Almost 8am. We went back to hostel have breakfast and check-out. The next spot will be the Torndirrup National Park. Around the Torndirrup National Park there are several tourist spot which are The Gap, Natural Bridge, Cable Beach, Salmon Holes and so on. The Gap and Natural Bridge is a place that should visit. Its amazing!!




We had almost finished visit places in Albany and now we heading to Denmark and Walpole. We are running out of time so we will only can visit places in Denmark on the next day. We do actually stopped in the middle to visit some small place and take pictures and for driver to rest awhile. After an almost 3hours driving, we reached YHA Tingle All Over, Walpole. Its a quiet place where not much backpackers stay there. We had our wonderful dinner there. The manageress Peggy is a very friendly person where she actually helped us by telling us where we can travel nearby Walpole and Denmark. A token of appreciation to Mdm Peggy *Yeppie*. The place was very clean and after dinner, we planned for the next day journey and end our night chit chatting and beer time.






It was a tiring day but everyone was enjoying. 11pm, everyone start to snore~ Hehehe (I'm the 1st. Yeppie~)

An almost 1500km trip (Day1)

After the 5 hours driving we finally reached Albany. We had book a room from YHA in Albany and after we had found the location and check-in, we just go visit some near places. The 1st place that we go visit is the Brig Amity Replica. The Brig Amity is an exact replica of original vessel which brought the first white settlers to Albany. Although we are late but we still enjoy taking photos on the Brig Amity.


After the Brig Amity, we still have some time before sunset, so we decided to go visit the wind farm. The Albany wind farm is the largest and newest in Australia but we only get to see it from far. We were lucky to get there just before sunset and we had took some pictures there and a group photo.



6pm and the sky start getting dark. We end our visiting and go back to our hostel to prepare for dinner. Daniel was the chef that night. That night, we had a wonderful dinner with grill chicken breast fillet, some vege and some fruits. If you ask me will it full? I will say no haha.

That is the 1st night. We end it with beers and laughters.

An almost 1500km trip

Last weekend i went for a trip to down south in Perth with my working friends and spent few days there. There are total of 5 of us and we departed from Perth and reached Albany in almost 5hours drive. It was a sunny day and everyone was happy heading our destination. Along the roadside was just greenery and farms. We went there on Sunday morning and come back on Wednesday night.

During the trip, our leader Leedon organized all the food, accommodation, and places to visit for us and she scheduled it nicely so that nothing will go wrong during the trip. Each of us played an important role too. Daniel (Leedon's husband) is a very important person because he is the super driver that drives all the way. Ah Di and his wife Mei will help here and there if anything is needed. Myself will plan all the schedule for everyday and most important thing is read the location for them as none of them can read english well.

For the 1st day we stayed in Albany, 2nd day in Walpole and 3rd day in Dunsborough. These places was located along our trip so we will need to finish the visiting very very fast so that we can go from 1st station to 2nd station very quickly. In Australia most of the places closed around 5pm so we need to save alot of time so that we can visit more places. We actually spent alot of time driving on road and stopping down to get informations.

Overall, the 4days 3nights trip was very exciting, enjoyed, fun, tiring but everyone was satisfied with this trip and we planned to go to another place again. At last i need to say thanks to Leedon and Daniel because of the sacrifices. Plan out a trip is really not an easy job especially for people who don't have any experience in it. I felt want to say sorry to them if have made any offend to them. Thanks and hope can go to next trip again.

(A detailed report will update in the next blog >_^)