Sunday, October 18, 2009

Perth, Australia - Pinnacles and the Moving Sand Desert

Finally, around the mid afternoon, we arrive at the main destination of this tour. The Pinnacles. Initially, I didn't really know what the pinnacles actually is until we were nearing it. So the bus driver (Who was also the tour guide..) explained that the Pinnacles are actually naturally formed limestone formations. The raw materials used in the creation of these limestone are actually seashells.. If you want to know more about how these limestone are formed, go check wikipedia. =P

After that, we visited the Moving Sands, which is actually a sand dune. Its looks like a huge piece of desert land but here, many Australians come during the weekend to ride buggies, play sand boarding, and test their skills on the 4x4 in riding over the sand hills. These sand hills of course, are formed thanks to the wind, who blows the sand to form these hills. As they are moving, the shape of the hills will change from time to time.

Here are some pictures taken at these 2 places. Don't expect to see anything more than rocks and sands. Hahaha!!

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As I was walking back, mother complained that I seemed to be taking picture of every stone I came along (thats exagerration), however when I caught this, I can't help but to take one because it is so..... "interesting". Mother nature does have a sense of humour doesn't she? =P

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Some nice flowers I saw, perhaps it was one of those vegetations that help form the limestone. ^_^

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Here at the sands...

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and more sands again...

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Sand with some stone road...

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These are one of those smaller sand hills people ride their buggies or 4x4 over to challenge their skills...

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In fact, we used it for sand boarding. ^_^

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After all these, we finally went back to Perth city, and arrived pretty late, later than dinner time. When we arrive at a place where there were many restaurants, mother was asking if we want to try this restaurant....

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And we were all like.. "You come all the way here to eat Malaysian food!?!?" In any case, sister says the food doesn't taste good and the boss sucks as well, so in the end, we settled for some Vietnamese food which my sister recommended. I ordered some duck noodle and boy, it tasted really good. It was awesome to have such nice dinner after a long and tiring day without a decent meal!

My next blog about the Australian trip is my Sister's Wedding, the main reason why we came to Australia! ^_^

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Perth, Australia - Emu Down Wind Farm and Picnic at Wildflowers

After Caversham Wildlife park, we took a long bus ride down heading towards the pinnacles. Along the way, the driver stopped us at Emu Down Wind Farm. No doubt it was windy and cold, but it wasn't as windy and cold as the wind farm down south at Albany town. At Albany, the wind farm was at the tip of the southern portion of Australia separating the Pacific and the Indian Ocean so it was nearer to the Ocean whereas this one is built on lowlands, no doubt also near coastal area.

Anyway after that, we had the picnic at Wildflowers. The interesting thing is the picnic, not the place. The place is just like a school canteen with a souvenier shop by the food.... It was all cold, cold as in just defrosted type of cold. Everything was cold. Salad, cheese, chicken, ham, eggs, whatever. The only thing that wasn't cold was probably the bread, the fruits and well, instant soup packets. =P

It wasn't appetizing at all but after tasting some of them, it wasn't so bad after all. An interesting experience! Here are the pictures for this section of the trip.

The wind farm

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These are wild plants around the area. It looks nicer than our grass or lalang's in Malaysia. =P

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This is our bus, you can see its pretty huge!

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Where we had our Picnic

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The rest of the photos are on my Flickr, link is somewhere on the right bottom. =P

We'll look at the Pinnacles and Moving Sand next.

Monday, October 5, 2009

Perth, Australia - Caversham Wildlife Park

So for the next entire day after arriving at Perth, we took the Pinnacles Tour. First stop was to the Caversham WildLife Park. Unfortunately for me, it was a very short tour! Yeah, so short that we were actually rushed to Visit the Koalas, the Kangaroos and than the Wombats and we're done.... -_-"""

There were many other animals there but oh well, couldn't see them. Anyway, here are some pictures taken at Caversham Wildlife Park and I'm sure many people would love the cute Koalas. =P

FYI, the guide said that everyone has mistaken the Koalas for bears and call them Koala bears. They are actually not bears, just Koalas. =P

They actually belong to the Marsupial family. The baby Koala was the star of the show on that day as among others, it was the most active and of course... the cutest. =P

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Kangaroos. Nothing interesting to be honest, and don't really look very cute. Quite stinky as well. =P

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If you realize, this kangaroo got "Extra" legs. =P

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Caught these guys play fighting/boxing.

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And finally, this fella here.... looks like a pig to me...

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Its actually called a Wombat. I use to find Wombat very cute, especially the soft toy version. But when I saw this i was like "You sure thats a wombat? It looks like a pig...". Well, its a freaking old grandma wombat.. Not only that, I thought I could see a few wombats walking around or something.. See the top view, try to touch it or something, but all I got to see was this "Obscene" pose.. which is soooo disappointing... and nothing to see also... just that it really looks like a PIG.

Looks like the Koala was the cutest. =P

As always, you can find the rest of the photo's on my flickr albums. ^_^

Next post will be about the rest of the trips. =P