Saturday, April 11, 2009

Australia Day1

We arrived at Perth airport yesterday morning around 6.15am. Managed to get our car around 7+, then loitered at airport for a while before leaving for Albany.
We got a Ford Falcon.

The drive is pretty long, more than 400km from Perth airport. I drove from the initial part of the journey, then we stopped at a place called Williams. Had a little snack, then continued on.
When we reached this place called Mt Barker, we took a detour into the town, just for the fun of it.
Not very fun. It's very quiet on Good Friday. All the shops are closed, except for one. :P Anyway, main thing is to visit the toilet.

The rest of the trip to Albany is pretty good too. Went to the Visitor Center to check out maps and find out from them where to go etc.
They told us the weather for Sat/Sun is going to be showery, then we decided to change our itinerary a little to accommodate such weather change.

Went to our accommodation, My Place Colonial, dumped our things, then we drove towards the National Park. Visited the Natural Bridge and The Gap, then drove further to check out the Blow Holes.

For the Blow Holes, need to walk about 800m and 78 steps from the parking place. Actually, the way to go down just to check it out is quite tiring. Then have to see your luck if the waves are strong enough to make the hole there make noise. Thus blow holes. heehee

On the way back, routed to the Wind Farm. This is the place which I wanted to see. The rest, not so important to me. This Wind Farm place is indeed very interesting. :)

One stupid thing. We wanted to pump petrol. At the station, I was looking high and low for the swtich to open the pump cover. Tried looking all over the car for like 20mins, even asked the people there to help.
In the end, somebody came, and pressed the cover itself.
@!#@$#@$%$#!@$@$%%@$
It's manual. ka na sai

Well, after the Wind Farm place, it's already getting dark, and we went back to rest.
Very tired after the flight and long drive, and with the driving around, slept quite fast. :P

Pictures taken from yesterday:

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