heya!!

after alex left in august i got a job working for a gym handing out leaflets full tiem 6 hours a day for 20 bukcs an hour , such easy work,did get a little annnoying but it passed teh time and i was able to save a lot of money whislt havign a laugh with a brazilian and colubian, after 6 weeks of that adam flew in from la and we had another 2 weeks in sydney before we got the bus down to melbourne adn re-did teh great ocean road and best of all neighbours night,m finally got to see dr karl afetr all this time, was a great night the waiting room his ban played loads of covers and they were really good, met him and he was a great laugh, tehn we flew to perth on teh west coast, we had a few days in teh city before jumping on teh easyrider bus up teh coast, our first stop was cervantes where ther are loads of limestone pillars left from teh retreating sea millions of years ago, they were pretty cool, tehn as we wanetd to save as much money as possible we brought a small tent and camped our way up teh coast, met some really nice happy campers who must have felt sorry for us as all teh tiem we were given food, books, biscuits, drinks, plates and forks, one night this zimbawe couple cooked us lamb and veg!! nice one! the 1st night of camping was terrible, 4 am woke up to a huge storm teh widn blew our top sheet off and rain was coming into the tent its was rubbish, we ahd to run outsdie and peg teh tent back down before we took off with the wind, not a great start!! then it got much better as we moved up teh coast, stopped in dongara and kalbarri which are national parks adn saw loads of wildlife and huge gorges with natures window a small rock formation looking over hills and lakes were awesome! then onto denham and monkey mia where each day at 8am around 10 dolhins comne into the bay and get fed, it was awesoem feeding them, they are wild ones but stil coem liek clockwork each day!! we spent aroudn 4 days chilling on the beach and was very hot now in 30 each day! still camping one day we were in the sea and found loads of shells which looked liekl msucles so we got around 20 of tehmn and boiled them with lemon adn when tehy opened up they taested really good, free dinner which we had caught ourself not bad eh!! then we went to coral bay where we landed ourselves a job in ahostel for a week , we got our own room a proper bed becuase at this point sleeping on teh floor with just a sleeping bag was killing our backs and hips , all we had to do was clean for 2 hours a day!! easy!!! hour mopping and hoovering such easy work and a free bed!! little toilet cleaning hurt no one. at coral bay we broguth snorkles beacues u can jsut swim out ot the reef it was amzing, it wasnt as colourful as teh great barrier reef but teh vast amoutn of fish was awesome, we saw some turtles and sting rays just swimming along next to us, was a littel scray seeign the sting ray when you think of steve irwin, but it was a samll one, so spent a week there snorkling and chilling on beach with a littel work and then onto exmouth where we had a few more days camping and tsnoorkling on teh beach, got up to 38-39 some days too hot for me!!

tehn we got a shuttle bus back down to perth for a few days before fyling to melbourne then bus to sydney, arrived in sydney on 16th oct and had 2 days there before we flew to osaka in japan, we picekd up really cheap tickets with jetstar adn was tooo cheap to miss, so we have had 3 days in osaka which was great loads of temples adn shrines around, a huge castle right in the heart of the city, millions of peopel walking around , huge banners and tv`s with advertising adn thousands of lights!! so differnt to china, in soo many ways!! people seem friendlier and its much more modern and develpoed here, we went to nara for a day to se teh worlds largest wooden building temple with a huge buddah inside which was fantastic, then we got a overnight bus to tokyo where we are now!! tokyo is great havent seen much of it yet but got a few days here, tehn onto hirshima and kyoto before flying back form osaka to sydney then to new zealand on teh 1st november!!!

hope all is well back home!! very sorry taken soo long to write blogs been soo busy and very hetic, hope u are all well, speek soon, will put more pics up asap!! take care

ash and adam

cheers!!