Monday, May 01, 2006

So Johnny was here 5-6 days and we took a littl 3day roadtrip down south just to get away from the city.

So left Sat afternoon after we caught up and relaxed in morning. First stop was the 2km jetty in Busselton which we walked on. There is an underwater observatory at the end but we were there too late to see so just walked pier and checked out the fishermen.


We then spent night in Dunsborough and next morn started by going to see Ngili cave. It was 37m underground and pretty freaking awesome inside. Still working on taking photos in the dark, it's pretty hard, maybe i'll get a tripod someday.



We then went to a winery near Margaret River which has some of the best wine in the country to taste some. We bought a bottle and drank it that night over dinner.

We went to the little town called Pemberton where poepl come to climb the Gloucester Tree which is a 60 odd meter climb. As you can see it's just these metal rods in the tree that spiral up you climb, used to be a fire lookout station in past. Coolest part of trip.

Big John with his new hair style.

Next day we went to the Tree Top walk but wasn't that great since huge metal ramps, aka wheelchair accessible. Still had great views but tree climb was cooler. Although the bridges were of cool design (from engineers viewpoint) how attached by pylons and mostly cables and swayed while walked.

Down in Albany we stopped for a picture of the Gap. This big opening in rocks where the waves splash, cool sight.

And a photo of The Natural Bridge.

On way back up to Perth we did a detour through the Stirling Range to see the mountains. Actually we wanted to climb Knoll Bluff (below) since only took 3hrs but we got there too late and would have gotten stuck in dark. So it's on my list to come back to camp and hike there, very beutiful stuff.