Hi everyone!
So we are still living in Fremantle, just south of Perth, and still enjoying the +40 degree days on the many beaches that surround our little town here. It's a great place, and i'ts been a great 2 months. We're getting ready to leave in just over a week, but here's a bit of what we've been up to and what's to come...
So Carla and I stayed in the Fire station hostel for a few days. Very cool hostel. Very cool staff, and tons of freebies. Carla started working at an Italian restaurant,
Marconi's, doing her usual waitressing gig. She's since started bartending at a local club a couple nights a week. Not her favourite job, and also picked up some work at a pizzeria,
La Porchetta. We live in a very Italian neighborhood. As, I am working at a Gelato place,
Il Gelato. And also at the supermarket again,
Coles. Very glamorous as you can all imagine. I work with a couple really great girls at il gelato though, and so even though its not the most challenging job, or busy for that matter, I'm having a great time. Carla still lives at the hostel and I have since moved into a granny flat with Jun, a very nice young man I met in Darwin. He's from England, and loves to mock my accent..."its called English babe, not Canadum". Well I'm sorry to tell you hun, but you are starting to pick up a bit of my canadum accent.
And so we have this flat, behind a house occupied by a nice old English man named Pat. I was worried it would be like living with my parents at first, and was aware of the noise level, but we have our own separate entrance, its a whole seperate building for that matter and privacy hasn't been a problem. Plus he's great company, and a wealth of information about the neighborhood. He's introduced us to the best butcher and cheapest vegetable market. Which pretty much satisfies Jun and I just perfectly. He loves to cook... i love to eat. ok, i love to cook as well, as you all know, but for some reason he just isn't as impressed with my pancakes or ants on a log, or hamburger gravy as most people are. So, I live with eating his fancy risotto, Japanese curry, and many pasta dishes (he's half Italian, and half Japanese) every day, and don't complain. Ok, I love it, plus how can I compete with that. I buy the wine, and all is even. We also live by a little bottle shop that supports local wineries... perfect for this wino.
So Carla is still at the hostel partying it up and spending all her money on Strongbow and Stella, nothing new there. She is heading to Thailand in a couple weeks to see her sister and some Bowen friends, and will travel there for a month. Then we'll meet up in Melbourne after that. Jun and I are heading on a week tour of the southern wineries and Margret River. Hopefully catching some of the best know surf in the country. Very Exciting, and then off to Melbourne we go.
Fremantle has been a great temporary home for us. Australia day in Perth was fabulous. I worked the busy day, but managed to catch the fireworks display in town, on the Swan River. Two barges blew up apparently, and no one was injured, although we were too far inland to see any of that. It was a great day, and even though I still don't feel like I can pass for an Aussie, some people (mostly tourists) have stopped questioning my accent, and a few still think I'm Irish!?, but most still note the Canadian accent after just a quick "hello"...or "that will be $4.80, thank you"....haha. Freo is a small town of sorts, just a quick 30 min train ride from the city. With tons of bars and restaurants, and fish and chips, sandwiched between a harbour and beaches, beaches and more beaches. No complaints here. Although there is a bit of a brisk wind off the water, called Freo Air conditioning perefct in our hot summer days, and a black dust that covers everything, and gets into the house. Most people don't even notice it. But when you're a neat freak like me, well, you notice.
Anyhow. That's about that. Will be back on asap with more photos and stories for you all. Keep checking the blog, and i hope you are all enjoying the end of winter over there....did I mention my permanent tan? hehe
...xxR
There were Emu's all overExmouth. And they are scavangers. A pack of about five stole my lunch of noodles, an apple and crackers as soon as I turned my back.
The pelicans at Monkey Mia Marine Park. They were amazing to watch and not afraid of us at all, making themselves quite comfortable in the sand next to Daniel. You can see how close we were to them.
The famous dolfins of Monkey Mia, they come right up onto the beach, and I got to feed one!
Prince Leonard of Hutt River Province. Bet you didn't know there was another country on the Australian continent. Well we went, and got our passports stamped of course. They have been an independant countyr for over 30 years now, and seperated originally over weat taxation disputes. They have their own currency, post office, liscence plates, and many citizens (it costs only 500$ to become one!).
Crammed into the back of that car on one of our last days. I have no idea how we all fit.
