Gareth: Do you know what we’ve become?? Hmm? Do you know? That’s right stinking tea leaves (thieves). Yet to be arrested! And do you know what we steal??? Hmmm? Tell me what do we steal??? Yes that’s right….. Sparks, Volts – the BIG BAD Electricity.
We love the stuff so much that we steal it and store it at any opportunity. Little do the campsites know that we pay for sites with no power, yet anywhere there is a socket we are jacking in and shooting up for free. We just love the stuff, it’s the biggest hit since steam. I tell thee.
Laptop – Camera – Mobile phone – Lights. The stuffs intoxicating. It’s so easy to run out of juice when you’re off the beaten track, a laptop dies, a camera doesn’t shoot. Our craving is insatiable. Luckily we are now back in the urban area and access to it is easy again. We are all charged and we feel like the duracell rabbit, there’s nothing stopping us. Oh Boy.... We can write the blog again….
30th September
Alice: Left Windy Habour in the knowledge that the weather was going to get better and
went to Walpole where we stocked up on food and a few beers to brighten our dampened spirits!
The Walpole / Nornalup National park is famous for it’s giant tingle trees that grow no where else in the world so doing our duty as tourists we went to inspect them. After taking pictures at the famous giant tingle, where Gareth's camera ran out of battery making him quite sad, we headed to the valley of the giants tree top walk. It’s a walkway suspended in the canopy 40m up and is pretty special and I imagine quite spiritual if you’re doing it by your self or with anyone other than Gareth who insisted on rocking the walkway so no one on it could take any pictures and generally being so excitable that he dropped his sunglasses over the edge at the highest point and we had to do a lot of trespassing to retrieve them.
Gareth: Also found someone else’s sunglasses near where mine fell so it appears that other people are just as clumsy as me.
(angry and squinting because he's lost his sun glasses)
(off to find them on a trespass)
(this is where he dropped them from)
(found some sunglasses, but they're not Gareth's)
(Here they are!)
(Cooler than the outer layer of the sun - which is cooler than you think!)
Alice: This excursion cost us £6 each so we were happy to learn on arrival at Parry beach campsite that we only had to pay £3.50 for both of us for the night. We soon realised why however when we saw there were no lights in the shower or toilet blocks and no hot water. Having learnt to make the best of things though we drank some beer and got smashed.
01st October.
There was no rush this morning as we had to wait for our tent to dry out. We took a walk down Parry beach for a few miles, this is where Gareth learnt that he had the squits so after a rather rapid walk back to the tent we had to plan our journey to Albany via toilet stops.
Albany is lovely and we’re in a wonderful campsite that’s part of the big 4 chain, lovely hot showers and a recreational room with a TV and sofas! Walked round Albany town centre and cooked ourselves a lovely chilli con carne for dinner. Gareth felt better so we polished off the rest of the beer and wandered back into town to visit a proper bar and had a nice relaxing night. Stumbled back past Maccy D’s about 11 o’clock and had to order our fries at the drive through as the restaurant was closed.
Today is my good friend Will's birthday. Here is a picture of him for those of you who don't know him.
Did you get any sugar for your birthday Will??? A bit more sugar in your coffee??? Or how about some more sugar with your sugar???
Here is my birthday picture for you....
Happy Birthday Willy!!!!
2nd October
Alice: Wanted to go on a long walk today so set off via the book exchange where Gareth realised his squits had got worse so had to make a quick exit and find a loo while I planned the longest and remotest walk possible! When Gareth returned he thought I was joking but on realising I wasn’t he popped a few precautionary Immodiums and off we went.
We walked 12m out to Bald head and back, it was a challenging walk but well worth it for the amazing views. Gareth’s ass held up surprisingly well even though he nearly stepped on a tiger snake that was lolling about in the path. Maybe if it hadn’t been for the precautionary Immodiums we would’ve had a crisis on our hands. We’ve since discovered that these tiger snakes are pretty dangerous and it’s the worst time of year for stepping on them as they’ve just woken up and are a bit dopey!
On the way back from Bald head we walked through a cloud of sand flies and were so busy running and waving our arms around that we went in a circle and had to walk through them twice, which wasn’t ideal, again precautionary Immodium saved the day. Well recommended.
(My first dragonfly picture of the trip, specially for you Andrew)
(little bit tired)
Very shattered after our long walk so we watched TV in the rec room and wrote this blog, going to get an early night. Gareth’s thinking about 1 more Immodium before bed even though the packet only recommends 4 a day.
Blog up to date and out. A & G xxxx
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