Made a weekend trip with my friend down south of oz. Started off at 7:30am, covering about 180kms in a 3hour drive. First stop was a small beach town called Busselton. The beach there was simply spectacular.....water so clear, that the sea bed could be clearly seen. And even though the sun was out, the breeze was cool and refreshing. We made our way to an underwater observatory that was built out into the sea, connected to land via a 1.7km long wooden jetty. I'm told its the longest wooden structure in the world!! After a long walk to the observatory, we made our way down 3 floors, coming into level with the sea bed. And what I saw was simply spectacular - we were staring straight into the most beautiful marine life I'd ever seen!! Bright corals all over in vivid colours, with blue's, pink's and orange's all over. And a whole range of colourful fishes. I even came face to face with an octopus (which was quite ugly!!). pics here
After that, we took a drive down a little futher to the southern most tip of South-West Australia. It was again an amazing scene, looking at the ocean stretch all around for miles and miles, the only next land surface beynd the waters being Antartica. The view was breathtaking, but the flies were up to their usual tricks again (for those who have no clue wat i'm talking bout, read my previous blog). We even took what is known as a 'Bush Walk', an aussie term for a walk through the wild fauna. Lunch was authentic aussie 'fish n chips', at a local shop. Come evening time and we headed back to Perth, but with beautiful oceanic images in my mind....