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Will put this question a few days: there is a request to write the blog in Flemish. I know several non-Flemish speakers were following us in the beginning. If they are still reading, we will of course continue in English. So, pls leave a quick comment or send me a mail if you want to keep it in English. If we dont get any, we will swap to Flemish.
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Day 17 - Albany and drive to Fremantle
The day started sunny and the waiter for our breakfast said it would stay like that till the end of the weekend. So, we went to the kids playground at Middleton beach and relaxed. Slowly clouds started to come and by the time we had driven around the scenic tourist drive (some nice views of the Albany bay), it was pooring rain with very strong winds and not looking to clear up at all. On the upside, this windy weather was perfect to see "The Gap" and "The Natural Bridge". The former is a huge gap in a rock with the water pounding at it and the latter is a natural bridge (what's in a name) of rock created by 1000s of years of water pounding against the bottom of the rock.

Interesting is that the surface of some of the rock walls down into the ocean has been anaysed and turns out to "fit" exactly into rock walls of Antarctica, proving that Australia and Antarctica once formed one continent. In fact, Australia/Antarctica drift 5cm further away from each other every year. I wonder how they measure that, with all the ice on Antarctica...

We then drove on to the "Blowholes" where we actually had to stay in the car because of the bad weather. As the loyal reader expects, about 15 minutes later the sky cleared a bit and the sun came through. Long enough to go see the blowholes but not to restore our faith in waiters' weather forecasting abilities. The blowholes itself are basically holes/cracks in the rocks over the ocean and each time a huge wave hits the bottom of the rocks, it blows all the way up -about 100m- through the rock holes (lots of wind/storm is required so we were "lucky"). Pretty cool for a few minutes.

We then left the city that Aboriginals rightfully call "a place of rain" and did the long drive back to Perth. Rain following us along the way. We had to call 10 different hotel/motel/B&Bs to finally find one with availabilities at a reasonable rate and then went for diner at a nice Italian to end the day.

Tomorrow we fly to Adelaide, South Australia! Will be a travel day so no blog .

Ciao mates.