Out and About Perth. As mentioned before, Perth is pretty spread out and so it's difficult to get around by public transport. However, luckily, Jay, one of the guys we're staying with has been kind enough to take me and Chris to various places in and around Perth. These include several dams North of the City in the Perth Hills. I really liked this area, beautiful views across the city and very wooded. Stunning houses too and just a much more countryside feel to ...

The South West As Western Australia is so huge the easiest way to see it is to take an organised tour. The tour I took is a 5 day tour staring in Perth and heading around the south west coast along to Esperance and then back to Perth. Day one began with the journey from Perth. Leaving early morning we headed south towards Mandurah, one of the biggest towns outside of Perth. From Mandurah we travelled to Busselton, home of a huge 2km long Jetty. Unfortunately t...

I arrived in Perth on 24th Feb hoping to find a room to rent in a house and a job to get some more money together. When I first arrived I stayed with Chris for a few days, someone I'd met in Sydney and who is currently living in a house. After staying for around a week I moved into a hostel in the city to look for somewhere to live. Full of cold and feeling miserable I wasn't fit to be out looking for jobs. Word of mouth and searching online however suggested it ...

After hearing more weather reports about the wet weather further north and it not forecast to end, with the possibility of even another cyclone I decided not to go any further North and head over to Perth for a change of scenery and hopefully weather. The cheapest way forme to do this would be to fly from Brisbane. So with a very tearful goodbye to Katie who was still heading up North to Cairns I got back on the greyhound and headed south to Brisbane. 20 hours on...

With an overnight bus to Airlie Beach we arrived shattered early morning. To our delight it wasn't raining when we arrived. I had been particularly worried about heading to Airlie as we have a 3 day 2 night sailing trip booked around the Whitsunday Islands and all we had heard along the coast was how bad the rain was and that in Airlie it was raining constantly all day every day. Boats had been cancelled and had come back early due to the bad weather conditions, ...