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It was a while ago that I travelled from Perth to Broome (Western Australia), but the trip was so good that I couldn?t leave it out of my blog.? I?m writing about a month late, so I may well miss out on some good bits, but I?ll do my best to cover the highlights?
My trip got off to a rather bad start as there was a bit of confusion over the company taking me.? STA travel gave me a voucher with the company name ?Adventure Tours?, so when a Western Exposure? bus turned up at my hostel? at 7am, I didn?t jump on it and was told my bus would be along shortly.? After waiting 45 minutes, I called Adventure tours, but they had no record of me having booked any trip with them.? Instead, they advised me to call Western Exposure and kindly gave me their number.? Problem solved, and an hour after the proposed pick-up time, I was finally greeted by my tour leader Jules along with a bus full of understandably frustrated fellow passengers.? The only problem with this was that they all assumed I?d only just got out of bed thus making them late, and 1 of them held this grudge for the entire trip - no names mentioned (Becky).
So, I started on the wrong bus, with the wrong group of people, but with a girl to boy ratio of 5:1 I wasn?t going to complain!? Furthermore, I got to sit in the co-passenger seat, and with exta leg-room and the bus CD player at my dispense I was more than happy.
Heading North, firstly we visited Nambung National Park best known for its Pinnacles Desert.? This was a good opportunity for some photos and a chance to meet some of the group, including Andy, a very chatty German guy.? We then headed on to some sand dunes which looked remarkably like snow for a spot of sandboarding.? We were advised not to stand up due to the sheer gradient of the slopes, so we sat on the boards instead.? As much a laugh as this was, I?m not sure it was worth the long walk back up the slope with a face full of sand, nor was it certainly worth me ruining my camera, which I stupidly kept on my person.? No more photos for a while,? We spent the rest of the day driving to our overnight accommodation in Kalbarri where I got a chance to meet some of the more interesting people in my group ? Mat, Lindsey and Nicky from Ipswich, England, and Kim and Emma from a small place called Trafalgar, just outside Melbourne, Oz.
On day 2 we got to visit Kalbarri National Park which consisted of Z-Bend Gorge and Nature?s Window ? ideal photo opporunities for a now camera-less Chris.? Fortunately, one or two of my fellow travellers were kind enough to take pictures of me with their own cameras, so I managed to get some winners after-all.? Most of the group (including myself) also gave abseiling a go which was surprisingly terrifying given that I?d done it many years before.? If that wasn?t enough, we were then given the chance to do the same cliff but forward first.? I volunteered to go first, but once I was sitting on that cliff-ledge I bricked it and begged not to do it.? However, once I shuffled my bum over the edge, it wasn?t so bad, and I was able to freefall for the last half.? Well worth the fear and 30 bucks.
We arrived in Denham just before subset for some great photos and then settled in to our overnight accommodation. Alter a few beers we headed to the local pub which was a bit of a dive. The rest of the evening is a bit of blur, but I remember not being able to get in to my shared accommodation and having to sleep on the floor outside – not a good look when I was found the following morning! Day 3 started off then in a bit of a drunken haze. We visited some very friendly dolphins at Monkey Mia in the Morning
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