The fourth day in Perth saw us picking up rental cars and driving into the unknown valleys and roads of Western Australia. Since we had cars, we stopped at a lot of places and towns alongside the road. I didn’t drive since I didn’t want to cause an accident. But I did take a bunch of photos. Here’s how it all went down.
Here’s the Australian Red Cross. It was weird for me not to see “American Red Cross”. Just because. I’m not used to it.
This store is where I bought the not-so-good 90% cocoa chocolate.
Chris and I both have a lot of photos of each other shooting each other through the car windows as the two cars drove alongside each other.
One of our first major stops was inside Yalgorup National Park where we saw “Living Rocks”.
You can’t see the “living rocks” too well because it was cloudy and the waves were all over the place. But yeah, there they are…
This whole place was full of them.
The crew.
Next, we went to the Busselton Jetty. It was so cool there (both in temperature and emotion). The Busselton Jetty is a pier that extends nearly 2km out to sea. It’s probably THE WINDIEST PLACE I’ve ever been and I’d reckon that it matches up pretty well with other “world’s windiest places”. It was just…SO WINDY.
A far-away shot of the Busselton Jetty.
It just goes on forever!
WINDY!
The Busselton Jetty is famous for being very long and all made of wood (well, up until a recent fire at least). Again, it’s VERY WINDY. And there are only handlebars on one side. One large gust of wind and you’re likely to just fall into the water! NO JOKE.
Henning…
We spent a good part of the early day at the Busselton Jetty and it was great! I’d love to go again when it warms up a bit and when the water is clear from the summer sun. :)
Next, we headed to a portion of Cape Naturaliste, a national park in the nearby vicinity.
The sun was beginning to poke through the clouds. :)
I forget the exact name of this part of Cape Naturaliste, but just know this: THE WAVES WERE GINORMOUS HERE. We were able to climb up to this rock-cliff and the waves STILL came up to the tip of the rock where we were standing. I imagine that this is what writers want to convey when they write about standing on the edge of the sea and tasting the salty air. It was wonderful!
Maria.
Me.
Me and Henning standing on a big rock.
Climbing!
This place was just great with the sun peeking through. :)
We didn’t want to go, but we had to keep moving if we wanted to stop by all the places on our destination list. And so, just like that, we left the cliff of rocks behind…
We tried to go see a lighthouse nearby, but it was closed by the time we go there. So we did what anybody would have done. We went to see the CLOSED lighthouse anyway.
Notice the closed gates. Boo.
At the top of the hill where the lighthouse is, I got a pretty decent view of the valleys down below.
“Gents”
Before reaching our destination hostel, we stopped at Smith Beach. Just your standard beach I guess.
Warning signs are posted all the time to warn people of the dangerous waves.
Thomas.
The view from Smith Beach.
These are the two white Toyota Corollas we rented. Unfortunately, it wasn’t always very easy to keep track of each other because EVERYBODY IN PERTH APPARENTLY RENTS THE SAME WHITE TOYOTA COROLLA AND EVERYBODY’S CAR LOOKS LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE.
Here are some random things we saw before reaching the hostel.
HUGE ANT PILES. Scary. Good thing they weren’t inhabited by BIG ANTS.
A real kangaroo (not a wallaby — those are smaller versions of kangaroos). But yes, I finally saw a LIVE kangaroo, even though it was a bit far. They seem to be more cautious than the wallabies we saw at Heirisson Island.
We eventually reached the Surfpoint Hostel. Great place! Much better than the hostel in Perth city.
Now it’s time to eat! Yum.
We picked up some wine because most of the places here are BYO (bring your own). So that’s what we did.
A DRIVE-THRU liquor store. Weird. But they’re common here.
Rainer.
We ate at this place called Ze Arc of Iris. It was a French restaurant.
Thomas wearing Maria’s glasses.
I ate this very delicious lamb dish.
Chris and Henning.
Ok, so that’s all for now. More photos later. I’m hardly done with my Perth photo posts. So stay tuned! :)
I just realized that I look at a lot of pictures of Australia on flickr without realizing it. I’ve seen some really nice pictures of the Busselton Jetty at sunset before.
And that is one frickin’ HUGE ant pile! I thought it was a porous rock before I read your caption.
at Bucknell, there was a store nearby called the Beer Barn. it was literally a barn full of beer where you could drive-thru and pick up cases at a time.
theres a beer drive-in place in south pasadena. its kinda weird.
all these perth pictures have more guys in them than all the pictures u’ve posted in the last few years on doobybrain.