Western Australia Day 3 & 4

28th, 29th November 2008, day 3 and day 4 of our trip in Western Australia. My apologies for this late posting. Had been trying to catch up with time and schedule ever since I came back. My life is returning to the usual activity packed days again. I'll just combine the two days into one post to make things simple.

Well, we started our journey to Albany, which is a town South of Western Australia, approx 350kms from Perth. We started around 1.45a.m. that morning and took turns to drive the long, straight and lonely road except for kangaroos on the road side looking at us as we pass.

We reached Albany around 6.15a.m. It was still early and practically, all the shops are closed except for McDonalds. Being having no other choice, we resorted to have our breakfast at McDonalds. We then hang out there till around 9.30a.m. and we were just in time to meet the officer at the tourism center who help us plan our journey. She gave us a few places of interest and armed with a map, we started our incredible journey in exploring the Southern West Australia.

Practically, we drove quite a distance within these 2 days of the South Western Australia trip.
Our schedule on the 3rd day is as follows:

Albany Wind Mill - The Gap, The Bridge - Whaling Station - TreeTop Walk (closed) - Busselton Jetty

Schedule for day 4 is as follows:
Leeuwin Estate Winery at Magaret River - Cape Leeuwin Light House at Augusta - Perth

We even slept in the car for the night of Day 3 because we are just so reluctant to pay AUD30 per person to get a room.

Overall, we traveled for around 1500km within these 3 days. Just a comparison, its the distance from Kuching to Kota Kinabalu or even Tawau. Far right?

Being lazy to explain, just view through the following pictures:

1. Sunrise at Albany Port

2. "Campong Road" at Albany

3. The mighty Wind Farm!

4. Human wonders....Imagine how huge that thing is? Have u thought of the angular velocity at the tip of the blade since it has a long radius?

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6. Denmark Beach...

7.Navigating with a map, me being the navigator sometimes.

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10. Whaling ship...It really wrench ur heart once u noe how they whale...I cant believe how tortorous human can be...

11. This whale skeleton is BIG!!

12. The Bridge

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16. The Bridge

17. Enormous waves hitting The Gap

18. The Busselton Jetty - 2km long and its the longest jetty in Australia

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20. Busselton Jetty at Sunset

21. Busselton Jetty at Sunrise - ITS LONG ISNT IT?, the long black line...notice that?

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23. Leeuwin Estate Winery - the vineyard

24. Chee Shing and Me - submerged in the vast vineyard

25. I nearly broke my lens when I slipped and fell - luckily its the Hood that's broken, saved the lens...

26. Wine Storage at the Cellar

27. Augusta Beach - The weather makes the sea looks dull...


28. Cape Leeuwin LightHouse 'where the 2 oceans meet' - The LightHouse overlooking the meeting of the Indian and the Southern Ocean.


That's all for my trip around Australia this time round. Chee Shing went back to Sydney on the 30th November and as for me, I prepared myself to go back to Kuching on the 2nd December. With this, I concluded my first half of the year in Perth.

Results was released on the 10th December and I am glad that I did well.

Next post: 'A Tribute to Ms. Jenny' & 19th Kuching City District Camp 2008

Western Australia Day 2

27th November 2008, the 2nd day of our trip in Western Australia. First thing in the morning is to take the early bus down to Perth City to collect our reserved car.

After collecting the car, we proceeded to Joy Garden, wanting to have some dim sum as breakfast. Who knows the shop only opens at 10.30 a.m. So, we drove around the city area which is basically quite empty and cold during that time.

Our schedule for the day is as follows:

Joy Garden - Burswood Casino - Swan Valley - Magaret River Chocolate Factory - Hillarys Boat Harbor - Dinner at Cicerello's Fremantle - Cottesloe Beach

Our timing is again not correct. All the vineyards grapes are yet to ripe. Another month to go before they are ready to be harvested for wine making. Haiz... Grapes are still too small.

Here are some of the pictures of the places we went:

1. Vineyard that we visited


2. Yet to ripe grapes

3. Chocolate heaven!...

3. Hot chocolate

4. Chocolate flowing....Chocolate factory...

5. Hillarys Boat Harbor

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10. Fremantle

11. Sunset at Cottesloe

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My last post for the time being for the next 5 days. I'll be heading off to Santubong for camp from 11th-15th December.

Western Australia Day 3-4 will be back after the 15th with loads of pictures...Stay tuned.

Sneak Peak:
-Australia's Longest Jetty
-The Gap
-The Bridge

Sydney Day 5 - Western Australia Day 1

26th November 2008, my last day at Sydney and also my first day of trip to Western Australia. We have to catch the flight at 9am that morning to fly back to Perth. Having missed the first and only train we can catch 4.30a.m., we have to resort to taking the cab which cause us sixty bucks each and also cause us to be dizzy cause of the terrible driving skill of the cab driver who likes to jerk his car much.



First day of Perth tour around was nothing much with just city walkaround, basically King's Park and Murray Street.

First thing after we landed at Perth was to head down straight to NorthBridge to Good Fortune to taste its famous roasted duck rice!.. Thanks to Delia for picking us up from the airport as well.


Some of the pictures taken during the day:

1. Swan Bell Tower

2. A view of Perth City from King's Park

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While walking around, we came across this camera shop closing down and was having an auction for all its stuffs.. It really attracted me and Chee Shing as most of the items is DSLR and lenses, auctioned at quite a low price.

Next, we placed an reservation for a car to be rented from AVIS car rental, the same company as we rented our car in Wollongong. The car we chosen was an Camry Altise, ready to be collected the next day, 9.30a.m.

We then head back to my place after dinner at a Japanese restaurant at Murray street before catching the bus back to my place and by then, everyone was really exhausted and we were fast asleep time to minor time difference and the whole day of travelling around.

That's all for the day, stay tuned for the coming days of more exciting touring around...