We have just spent a week in a place called Gidgegannup which is the centre of the universe (Alan 2005). We went to stay with Alyson's family on their farm. We rode their horses, got taken out on their big fast motorbikes, had BBQ's for breakfast, got taken shopping several times (Alyson's great uncle Charlie even braved the shops with us and lived to regret it), shot guns in the garden and were totally spoilt for the whole week. We had such a good time and made ...

We snorkelled with the biggest fish in the world!!! On Wednesday, Katie, Em and Julie (Alyson was topping up her actually very impressive tan on the beach) went on a boat trip to swim with whale sharks. As it turned out the spotter plane, which they use to spot the whale sharks (the clue is in the name), didn't see anything that day, but we still had a cool day on the boat staying inside the reef that surrounds Coral Bay. We did get to see dolphions and snokel...

Alyson; When we left margaret river we headed for a placecalled pemberton so we could go and see some huge trees! They really were quite big and Julie being the braviest of us all climbed to the top and impressed us all. I also had a slight mishap in Pemberton and crashed our van. i kind of backed into some scary australian womens car and left a rather large dent! Whoops. We didn't spend very long in Albany before we decided to start heading north again to the wa...

Sorry for being so slack with our updates, but we've been too busy doing stuff! We've been in Oz for a week now and have settled in well. To begin with we stayed in Perth for a few days which was wicked. It's a really lovely city, lots of grass, very clean and civilized! We spent a couple of days shopping, replacing our crappy Asia clothes with nice new ones! Also, Alyson, Ju, and Em all got mobile phones - yeay! We went on a day trip to Rottnest Island which ...