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The adventures of Sarah & Brian
G'day,
Well our Ozzie adventure is well underway. We hired our 'wicked' van (that's what the company is actually called) and compared to some we have seen ours is an absolute beaut! When we went to pick it up we saw one with cannabis leaves all over, another with Jimmy Hendrix on and another with Eminem on so imagine our relief when we got our aboriginal beauty.
We spent a couple of days in Perth but couldn't quite get into it as it was so much more like England and nowhere near as exciting as Hong Kong. Nice city though, but went for a pint and it was 4 quid!!! Couldn't Adam and believe it. Once we got on the road though and figured out the map - it's not hard there's only one highway up the coast - we were loving it.
We've done over 2000km (or 2000 clicks as Brian has taken to calling them) already. We drove up to a place called Coral Bay which is gorgeous and you can walk out from the beach to the Ningaloo Reef and snorkle. The reef is like a mini Great Barrier reef but you don't have to go on a boat for 2 hours to get there, you just step in the water and there are tropical fish and rays at your feet. It's shallow and sheltered too so good for a rubbish swimmer like me.
After that we went to Monkey Mia where the dolphins come into the beach every morning to be fed, they swim around right at your feet (see pics) and you can hear them clicking as they check out your legs in the water.
There was a jetty here where a big old turtle hangs out at dusk. Also went on a boat trip which guaranteed no seasickness so Brian braved it and we saw dugongs, more dolphs, rays, sea snakes and turtles.
You can easily drive on the highway for 3 or 4 hours without the scenery changing, it's so exciting when you see a bend in the road.
We're in Kalbarri where there is a national park but haven't checked it out yet. Off for an 8km hike down a gorge tomorrow so just resting and getting our strength up today. Oh, and drinking smoothies. Mmmmmmm smooooothiiiiieeees.
By the way it's getting more and more difficult to figure out who is writing which message - use your names you big apes!!!!!
Check you later dudes
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