After our lovely time in Esperance we made a looong 8 hour drive to Rockingham (or Perth). We stopped halfway in a place called Hyden where there is the famous "Wave Rock" a cool thing to see. We surfed for about 7 minutes and then continued on the journey. We were about half an hour from our final destination when told that the place we were planning to stay at was not willing to stay open for us. When we got to Rockingham there was nothing, it was rainy, accommodation that was there was full and it was dark. After an hour, I remembered the FREE wifi at McDonald's, so we headed there for a late dinner and looked for a place to stay. Oh, I forgot to mention, my phone died just as we entered Rockingham. Apparently when roaming in and out it wastes the battery so my almost full battery was dead. We found a 24 hour hostel in Perth and drove another hour to our final destination where we had a very good night sleep.
The next morning we met up with Juli and Stephanie went on a major
shopping spree through Perth. It rained so it was a perfect thing to do. We spent the night at Juli's cafe drinking coffee and eating free cakes. It is very rare to find a cafe that is open after 7 pm anywhere in the big cities around here. It was nice to do a past time that I enjoyed doing back home that I have not gotten to do yet here in Australia. The boys joined us on Friday night where we had an interesting night in the YHA Perth Hostel.
We spent our last night on the island enjoying the sunset and then eating out for some yummy catch of the day fish and chips. The next morning we headed back to Fremantle and showed Stephanie all the yummy places to eat. Fremantle is a nice historic town with lots of neat buildings. It was a good way to end her trip to the east coast. Dropping her off at the airport was sad. But it was nice to have spent a lovely 3 weeks with her again, travelling around Australia.
I am now back at the farm harvesting away at the olives. We are finally almost done Spanish Queens and will then move onto Manzinellos. There is another Canadian girl here as well, she is from Halifax, it is cool to have someone to share a love for Canada with..haha. We also have two Dutch girls here as well as a girl from Switzerland and a girl from Germany. AH! and how can I forget, last week I was finally approved to teach in WA and I have work next Monday and Thursday in Lancelin...Yay!!! The teacher who called me today was very excited to see that I am able to teach for them for the next few months...finally!!!! It was an exciting day.