(Out of sequence) Wednesday June 18th

Today we had had to go to a meeting at the National trust. We were going to go with a lady called Robyn that is Richards’s wife, she said that she would take us to the Maritime museum. When we got there Robin she said that this was a boat museum it was a very big museum and it had tons of big and small boats. Then when we looked out the window we saw two tugs boats pulling a huge container ship. The one in the back directing the ship into port, it was really cool. When it was lunch time Tamsin started to say she was hungry so we went to a café. Then we went to an old prison that you have tours and the tour guides made it look like we where going to be locked up and Tamsin had to freak out thinking we were going to jail and that was a experience. When we got home we had a good dinner. We all had good day.

Thursday June 19th

Today it is the full last day and I asked if we could go to Rottnest Island. Rottnest Island is an island off the coast of Australia that used to be a jail but now it is a tourist spot. My mom said that we would have to go on a boat to get there and I did not care so we went. When we got to Rottnest we went to a bike hire store and there were lots and lots bikes. First they asked to get a helmet. Then we waited for a person to give us bikes. Finally a man came and mom, Robin and Tamsin got new bikes and I got an old purple and pink bike, it was ok. After an hour riding we stopped and had lunch. The beach was so nice but the water was ice cold. We cycled for a further two hours to get back to the dock. On the island there was a marsupial – called a Quokka (giant rat?) that would try and share your lunch, this rat is only found on the island – hence the name “Rattnest”. Finally we got back to the dock and we had to go on the boat to Fremantle and drove to a Chinese reentrant that was very good. There we met with Peter and Richard. I think I had on of the best holiday in my life.

Note on our 3000+km journey in Australia (not flights) we met with many Aboriginal peoples – Bondini, Ngalia, Tjupula, Mardu, Nyoongar, Yajamiti – that is why we should never just say Aboriginal people.

Tuesday 16th June

Today we all very tired but we woke up at 6:30 am to go to Yanchep National Park that has koala bears and kangaroos. As soon as we arrived went to find the outside pen that had fifteen Koalas bears, but only saw six. When we were walking to a mine, limestone cave, that we were going to have a tour down, we saw a baby kangaroo and his mom and dad, he was so small. Then when we got to the cave we had a 45 minute tour, the cave was really big, bigger in the inside than out. Finally we got to eat lunch by the lake when it started to rain so we finished lunch in the car. In the afternoon we drove to a museum called The Gravity Discovery Center that mom said had cool hands on experiments. They did, like Galileo’s gravity experiments by dropping water balloons off the leaning tower that was built at a 15 degree angle, it was really cool. After doing all the experiments including the gravity pit we drove off and went home. We had a very fun day.

Monday 15th June

Today we went to Coral Coast and it was a total of 6 hours drive. When we got there mom said that we had to do to the Pinnacles where there were tall rocks that you could not climb and there were some good rocks. Then after that we went to the beach and I was ready to go and swim but when I looked at the beach and there was tons of seaweed all on the beach and the water. So we just eat and then went to a monster truck ride and a sand boarding place but they were not open so we just played on the dunes, like rolling down, jumping down and chasing my sister down (that was a lot of fun). Finally we went to a really nice beach that you could swim from, Tamsin jumped in and got her pants wet so she took them off and ran around like a mad man in her underwear (if you now what I mean).

Saturday 14th June

Today I woke up and I had breakfast and I nearly killed my toast, I put it in too long and when it pop up it was all black. When mom woke up she asked me was I doing because I was going to throw the bread out, she said I should get a knife and scrape off the burnt toast. When every body was up mom said that we where going to go to a aquarium. When we went to the aquarium we went all over the aquarium and finally we got to the sharks and there was two scuba divers in the tank feeding the sharks. When we came out of the aquarium we had lunch and went to the beach and we went swimming in the Indian Ocean, the water was very cold. After that we went to Whitemen park and went on a tram that I could stick my head out in the wind. Then we went home

Friday 13th June

We are so far South that the next stop is Antarctica – we are going to go to the Whale Museum and see the coast line – it can be very dangerous and the waves here can be over 40 foot high on the coast line.

When we get to the whale museum the first thing I see is the big whaling ship. It was about 90 foot that it very big for a whaling ship. It slept about fifteen people but it looks like it could fit twenty people. When we got on the ship Tamsin ran up to the top of the ship, the ship five floors so we ran a lot. Finally I got to the top and there was a steering wheel, then I looked back and there was two steering wheels there so there was three steer weal’s on the ship. Mom said that we were going to a 3D movie after we went on the ship. After the 3D movie about whales we went to the beach and saw three whales, but Tamsin wasted our money on the binoculars and looked through them for all 60 seconds. Finally we got to the place where they had whale bones that where very big. Then I saw a case and it had a 25 day old dead whales foetus. Then we had to go because we had to go and pick up dad and drive home. When we got home I had dinner and went to sleep. I had a good day. We drove back to Perth on Friday a very short journey of 400 kilometers (5 hours).

Thursday 12th June

Today I woke up and it was 5: 45. I was so tired I could barely get up. Then I asked my dad why we woke up so early, he said we have a ten hour car drive to Albany. Mike said we would have stops. We would go to have breakfast and then go to a huge rock? When we were in the car for six hours mike said we are here we are at the Wave Rock. When we got to the Wave Rock it really did looked liked a wave. I tried to run up it and I fell down like a slide on my butt. Mike said there was a Hippos Mouth that was a big cave that you could fit four cars. When we got to Hippos Mouth it was huge and of course I climbed all over it. Sadly we left and we where back on the road for four hours. When we got to Albany Mike said we should have dinner and left us to relax in the hotel for one hour. Dinner was good.

We are so far South that the next stop is Antarctica – we are going to go to the Whale Museum and see the coast line – it can be very dangerous and the waves here can be over 40 foot high on the coast line.