Perth & All It's Glory

Followers, It's been a while since our last update. Forgive me...

A few things to add to previous blogs First. While on the train we, or rather Dad met a guy who was very worldly and was obviously well educated. Our first knowledge of this man was Dad calling him Yeti man, and saying he spent their entire conversation trying to locate his mouth underneath his Immense facial hair. His moustache extended down past his bottom lip. We never saw him eat and wondered if he could. He had a bottle of coke at some point but never managed to see him consume it. He had an aroma of salt and vinegar crisps/chips, and was very difficult to understand.

In the Territory of South Australia recycling is a major thing. You pay 15 cents for a shopping bag and at recycling centres you can get 10 cents per plastic bottle. This is quite a good scheme as it provides money and an objective for those who live on the street. It was also cool to see everyone in the grocery store with reusable bags.

While in Perth after our experience in the $20 a night hostel we moved to the Exclusive backpackers just down the road from Dad’s hotel. We tried to fit in as much as possible, King’s Park Perth City and the joy of Dad putting his white British Body in the Indian Ocean. He sailed on it as a young man centuries ago and it was one of his main goals to do while being here.
We also headed to Mindarie to see some of Dad’s old friends. Two ladies Louise and Heather who he worked with during his Caravan selling years. We had a great afternoon between two houses and swam in the pool had a barbeque and met some great people. People to definitely keep in touch with.
Our final day with Dad was spent partly in the bank trying to organise things, having a haircut and at night we had a nice Meal in a Chinese Restaurant served by a fraught young lady who we presumed was having a bad day. But we loved her.

Dad came with us to the farm, we thought it would not be right for him to come all this way and not have the opportunity to see some Kangaroos in the wild and not see the real Australian Outback.
We came up with Catherine and spent the day running Dad to the best areas on the farm to see the Grove the river, the sheep and Cows and he got to meet Darryl. A very fitting end to a great trip was having Dad be with us all day. I think you enjoyed your trip here, didn’t you dad? I Know you love it when we mention you on here. He flew back a few days later after having a few more days in Perth leaving us to begin the next part of our journey.

I think we can both say Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for the time and memories you spent with us and the help you provided in getting us back to Perth.

This will be a slightly long Blog as I will be condensing the past week-ish into the next few paragraphs. Any more elaboration is of course available upon request ;)

We met our fellow WWOOF-ers Stuart and Ida, Ida from Sweden and Stuart from Sunny ‘ol Shresbury in England. Ida left us a week later but Stuart still remains. We’ve had some fun times so far, we headed to Lancelin for some Fish and Chips, had food at Darryl’s one night…and another. Did heaps of pruning and just did our first barrel of Olive packing. We went to see Donna AND Darryl race at Speedway and went back to their farm to celebrate a good race. Holly and I were in our own beds by 12 as I was coming down with a cold and Holly was getting what we think was Gastric Flu. We could be wrong though. Needless to say we’re both more than recovered now and fighting fit. Yay!

We did a market a Capricorn which is near Yanchep national park yesterday (saturday) and did very well. Catherine will be pleased. I also had my first day at work today starting at 7am, a bit of a shocker. But it turned out to be good, a nice place to make my mini fortune for the next few months. I had forgotten to mention Holly’s work too…She had her first day at Lancelin school after a headache of applying to various institutes for the pleasure of working for them, but was told that she wouldn’t be able to work or get paid for that days work untill she got her ID number with the DET which she can get in 3 Weeks!! And Breathe……

So that’s the past few weeks in a nutshell. We’re planning on doing much of the same thing over the next few weeks/months. If you are reading this and are not sure who is writing this blog at the moment My name is David. Holly employs me at $5 per hour with no overtime. I can be found on face book as the one who keeps popping up in her photos David Crompton.

Thanks for reading. We’re going to go and find some more things to do so we can write about them.

David & Holly

P.S. The last album of the New Zealand Trip....

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