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The adventures of Sarah & Brian
We've now done over 5000 clicks and still going strong! Been down south as far a Esperance and now on our way back to Perth - dropping off the van of dreams on Saturday, boo! We'll miss the little ripper.
The weather's been pretty rubbish most days - in Albany it rains for half the days of the year. if we'd known that we'd have stayed up north for longer I reckon.
Been to the tree top walk which is a walkway 40 metres up in the tops of the trees (hence the name), but being the adventurous young things that we are we also decided to climb a 61 metre tree. Thats 61 metres, not feet i.e ruddy high! There are metal pegs sticking out from the tree trunk that you climb up. I wasn't sure at first but had a spurt of bravery and we headed up only for Brian to nearly bottle it half way up. He made the mistake of looking down, panicked and screamed like a girl (heheh he has just informed me to confirm that made that last bit up).
We've been to an old whaling station that has been turned into a museum, called whaleworld in Albany. It was v good, there was a recording of a whale chase blasting out of the whaling ship of people shouting 'get the bloody b*stard!' etc. They love their swearing here, don't dub any songs on the radio either.
On one rainy day in Esperance we went to a little aquarium where you could prod fish in a touch pool. It was ace, stroked a shark and ray, and had a spikysea urchin walking on my hand. They had a big octopus which was putting on a right show changing colour and texture. It apparently used to sneak out of the tank and steal lobsters hehe.
Our most adventurous outing was when we went for a walk up a hill called Frenchman's Peak. It said it was 2 hours of heavy walking but it actually turned out to be a climb up a sheer rock face! Ok maybe not but scrambling up rocks, it was well treacherous. As we were nearing the top the sky couded over, the wind seriously picked up and it started to rain. We had to leg it to a little cave for shelter and wait for it to pass. We thought they might have to send a rescue helicpoter for us but it cleared up and we managed to make our way down. Brian said it was 'a great challenge'.
As there is nothing much to do in the evening in our van we've been through quite a few books (I'm currently reading Hollywood Wives by Jackie Collins. Found it in a stack of books left outside a toilet. it's quality!). We've also taken to buying a boxes of wine as they're the cheapest booze (about 6 pounds for 4 litres of not too bad stuff) and getting hammered whilst listening to Triple J, quality radio station that doesn't play any pop music or crappy r&b like you get at home - all indie, rock, metal, hip hop, and some dance but nothing too offensive.
You can see the lastest wildife spottings, I think the spider is my favourite so far. We saw a echidna (can't spell it - cute porcupine type creature) and Brain saw a snake crossing the road. We also narrowly missed a roo on the road yesterday.
Anyway that's enough for now. Take care folks.
Love Sar n Bri
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