Archive for July, 2006
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House hunting, part 65467567
I’m moving again!!
Yes indeed, I will finally be making myself at home in GLEBE, suburb of my dreams!! I went to check out that house I’d been interested in for a few months, and there was another guy also …
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Byron Bay
So much for catching up on sleep – I woke up FREEZING last night and all my room has is an unreachable skylight which MUST have been open because I could hear some cars outside. Then I kept hearing someone…
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A day in Brisbane
At the tail-end of my Western Aus trip, after my utterly amusing redeye flight out of Darwin, I found myself with a couple days in Queensland before returning to Sydney for the start of 2nd semester. Here, I describe my …
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Ridiculous flight out of Darwin
I’d been dreading my 1:40am flight out of Darwin for multiple reasons: it signalled the end of my 25 days in Western Australia, and obviously it was at such an ungodly hour. After waking up at 5:30am every day of …
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Darwin, revisited
Our last day on the Western Xposure tour consisted of… nothing, really. Most of us had a 7:30am flight from Kununurra to Darwin on a tiny little plane that left from the smallest airport I’ve ever, and probably WILL ever, …
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Kimberley trip summary
Part 2 of my Western Australia odyssey began bright and early on the 12th of July when a big 4wd bus came to pick up the 5 of us at 7am. I have to say, day 1 was quite daunting …
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Lake Argyle to Kununurra
Leaving the Bungles and Purnululu NP was a horrible experience. First, we left 1.5 hours behind schedule because Freckle had to fix Frank the trailer. I now understand why I had to pay so much money to traverse the Kimberley. …
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Bungle Bungles
I wanted to love the Bungle Bungles, I really did. So then why didn’t I?
After finally completing our trek across the Gibb River Rd, we turned south on a paved road and headed toward Purnululu NP, home of the …
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The Kimberley
PRISON BOAB TREE
Hardly worth mentioning, but it was our first stop. Boabs are these really fat trees (shaped like pineapples) with windy branches. This one was especially big, and had been hollowed out inside to keep aboriginal prisoners back …