The next stop was Bunbury home of the dolphin discovery centre and this was one of our reasons for choosing to spend a couple of nights in this town. We arrived late so it was a Chinese meal and a chill out night for us before our sightseeing the following day. We spent the morning driving around some of the sights including a viewing tower over the town and the beach area before heading to the dolphin centre. We were booked onto the 12.30 boat tour which inclu...

The next night and day were to be spent in the town of Margaret River, we would have loved to have stayed longer however it is a very prosperous vineyard region and as such the hotels and motels were priced accordingly. The drive down to Margaret River was lovely as we passed field after field of grape vines and fruit trees dotted with the occasional beautiful vineyard temping you in with free tastings! We resisted temptation and continued on to Margaret River. W...

We decided to take a few days away from perth, hire a car and head down the south coast and our first stop was the beach town of Bussleton. We had chosen to have a couple of nights here as Carrie Anne was taking part in a beach volleyball tournament and we felt it only right to cheer her on. That and it gave Michael a chance to watch a bunch of scantily clad girls jump around in the sand cleverly disguised behind his newly polished mirrored sunglasses!! We coll...

After what we considered a long lie we caught a taxi at 7.45am to the airport at Alice Springs to catch our flight over to Perth on Australia's west coast. We were very lucky to have been offered a roof over our heads from our friend Carrie-Anne (the girl we met in Sydney at new year). Unbeknown to us when we booked our flight we were traveling and arriving in Perth on Australia day, the day that commemorates Australia being founded and claimed by the white man...

One of the things that we had wanted to do while in Australia was to take a trip out to Ayres Rock so we chose to fly from Adelaide to Alice Springs and then from there we picked up a 2 day tour out to the red centre to take in Ayres Rock as well as some of the other famous landmarks including Kings Canyon and The Olgas. We had a really early start to get to the airport to catch our flight to Alice Springs which would be our base before and after the tour. We b...