We arranged for one of the shuttle bus services to pick us up at 8am to get to Perth Airport for our flight to Ayers Rock. The bus took forever as we were the first pick up so had to stop at loads of other hostels and hotels. Our plane was tiny but still a Qantas - smallest plane either of us have ever been on. Flight took about 2 and a half hours. Before landing they announced it was raining!!!!! Hardly ever rains in the bloody outback and now we're going the ...

As we have seen all the major sites of the city now and been to the surrounding areas we decided to track down an internet cafe, unlike Asia they seem to be quite scarse! We found one charging 3A$ per hour. We had so much to do, Ayers Rock and Cairns bits that we ended up there for 2 hours with little time to email home. But managed to get our blogs and photos updated. We are using Nicks i-touch to do all our banking as so much safer than net cafe but can't get ...

After some toast we got the free bus as close as we could to Kings Park and Botanical Gardens. We then hiked up a massive hill to get to the entrance. The road into the park was lined with trees, it was beautiful. We walked around the park for a few hours, it is massive. It is high above the city so we got some great views. The park was so beautiful, the photos really don't capture it. It was so green and the plants were all so colourful and different to anythi...

Woke up to blue skies so decided today would be a good day to go to Fremantle and Cottesloe. We walked to the train station and bought a day ticket each for 8.40A$. The train took about 20mins to get to Fremantle. We had a walk around the harbour before walking to see the Roundhouse. There were great views of the sea and town up there. We then had a walk around the town, it is a gorgeous town with beautiful buildings. Around the town hall they had a market wi...

Big news today - after much thinking Nick decided and went and had his head shaved!! When we'd been in town yesterday we'd seen a few barbers but he wasn't sure but after sleeping on it we walked into town this morning and went back to the barbers! There was a queue so we walked to the Swan Bell Tower and got some photos before heading back. Nick explained to the barber that we are travelling so shorter hair would be better - they agreed on a 2 round the back a...