Hello All,
I can’t believe we’re
already into our 2 week in Western Australia! I don’t want it to end! The trip has been super awesome so far. Our Van has been fantastic, the sun has been
shining everday, and the beer has been cold.
We’ve travelled more than 3000km
and we still have another 3000km or so to go.
As usual I think the best way to write the blog is to
do a top 5 list of our exploits over the last 2 weeks. So here it goes….
1. Karijini National Park. This was an incredible part of our trip,
especially the West Oz Active Tour we did.
Through our guide Dan we were allowed to visit some of the most remote
parts of the park, we travelled through Knox and Hancock Gorges which are rated
as class 6 sections of the gorges, and thus only accessible by hiring a trained
guide. To get through the gorges we did
a ton of swimming, abseiling, and sailing over a waterfall called knox
falls--which was straight out of the Goonies and easily the highlight of our
trip so far!
2. Dales
Gorge. This is another gorge in Karijini
National Park, and considering they are both at the top this week’s top 5 list I think it shows
how much we enjoyed ourselves there. We
spent the whole day hiking the Gorge and shooting our pseudo- Croc Hunter-like
show for the video updates. Highlights
of Dales Gorge are Fortesque Falls (where we did some cliff jumping) and
Circular pool (which was super cold but an excellent place to swim after a hard
days hiking).
3. Ships of
the Desert. We were fortunate enough to
experience the Ship’s of the Desert camel ride on Cable Beach at sunset in
Broome, WA. This was quite an
experience, having never rode a camel myself before. Broome is an awesome little town with a great
beach that you can drive your car right onto! Like Daytona beach, but with way
less people. The whole town seems to
congregate on the beach at night to view the spectacular sunsets you see in
this part of the world.
4. Almost
hitting several Kangaroos. These crazy
marsupials jump out of the bush from nowhere and luckily we haven’t hit one
yet. The closest call yet has been when
we swerved between two of them along the highway heading into Exmouth. It is the closest I have ever come to hitting
an animal…Though we have accumulated a mass of dead insects across the hood of
our van.
5. The
Stars. Alright call me sentimental, but
every night before we go to sleep we usually sit out in our folding chairs and
gaze out onto the stars, which you can see here like nowhere else I have ever
been before. And it’s a totally new sky
for me, the first time I have ever seen the southern cross.
Well, that’s been my last two weeks—A great time! We ‘ve met some really interesting people from all over the world and learned a lot about other cultures and
life in general on this side of the planet.
I hope all is well in the northern parts of the world. I’ll write again
soon.
Peace,
Alex
