This day we had decided to give our hosts a quiet day and take care of our own transportation. All uncle Max had to do was drop us off at the Bayswater trainstation. We had some trouble with the ticket machine but a nice lady helped us out and soon we were on our way to Fremantle. The weather had improved and the sun was present all day. As promissed, Fremantle was a nice frienly town with a lot of renovated buildings from the old days of Australia. We have visit...

This afternoon we were going to the Mundaring Weir. This was a dam build to transport water to the goldfields in the eastern part of Western Australia.. On average, ninety million litres of water are pumped through Western Australia's 'Golden Pipeline' each day, in an engineering feat that has continued uninterrupted since 1903. The start of the water's 560km journey is the impressive Mundaring Weir, set in a natural bush setting. The dam is under constructio...

Vandaag zijn we rustig begonnen. Vanmiddag heeft Max ons meegenomen naar het Wildlife Park waar we de eerste kennismaking hebben gehad met de australische dieren. Het was een enorme ervaring want we hebben ze van wel héél dichtbij meegemaakt, gevoerd en geaaid. Welke dan zul je wel denken, nou ik noem er maar een paar op. Natuurlijk kangaroos en wallaby's maar ook uilen, kookabaru's, de blauwtonghagedis, slangen, wombats, oppossums, vliegende vossen, eigenlijk ...

Today we had to try again. The flight was supposed to depart at 10 am but after another delay it finally took of at 11:15, pfff. We arrived at Kuala Lumpur very early in the morning and had to wait a while for our conneting flight to Perth. The seats they gave us were scattered al over the plane and other people had the same problem. Boarding cards were exchanged a lot to try and sit closer to each other. It was also a bumpy ride so we were happy to reach our fi...