Well final installment for a while. After finishing my last trip up in

Darwin (London) I then flew from there, via Brisbane (Berlin), Sydney

(Rome) and finally ended up in Perth (Dublin) after bloody 12 hours,

the direct flight was merely 5 hours odd (but $200 dearer), shocking.

 

Anyways, I then arrived and didnt actually have anywhere to stay so

relying on my trusty lonely planet I picked a hostel which sounded ok

and waited a bloody hour for the shuttle bus, good service! Got to the

hostel and was promptly put in a room in the basement = cold,

dark and smelly - you can see some pics taken out of

the girls room in the basement in my album = looks like a scene out of hostel or

maybe saw!

 

Spent a few days here and then sorted out a camper with Katherine and

Leah the girls from Sydney. We then headed off on the Tuesday in our

wicked little camper with space for effectively two double beds, had a

sink, cupboards, gas stove and a microwave (which we used once! - for

victoria sponge with custard at 10am, I still feel sick now)

 

So we headed up the coast, basically to get to Exmouth it was a 16hour

straight drive the magazine said, we did it over the first few days

stopping at various camp sites and what not. Basically we drove the

length of Britain and back, ohh then we went down south! Now bearing

in mind how long this drive was, the whole journey was pretty much

dead after we got out of the city and towns. Our main source of

amusement was when driving past other campers doing stupid waves at

them, and boy when we got some campers/buses taking both hands off their

wheel those were 'crazy' times! It sounds pretty lame but you try

driving on a never ending road for 6 hours a day. We also got a few

truckies to honk their horns, and that was before other people saw our

sign on the back -check it out. Also another winner was flapping our

arms out of both sides of the camper when overtaking someone else, saw

a few laughs from the other drivers!

 

You'll also see from my pics a few snaps of some road kill, now some

roads were better than others but on one stretch I counted over 20

roadkills so stopped counting. We did a few times come close to

nabbing a trophy of our own but altho a few roos jumped across when

Katherine was driving (and an emu casually walked across and

stared at us), we got nothing...well apart from s*** loads of bugs and

stuff. I did however manage to clip a bird on one stretch (not that im

in to animal cruelty or anything mind) but he safely limped/crashed

away!

 

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