Monday, April 30, 2007

Organisation Day

Today is our last day in Perth so today it was time to get organised. I was disappointed to discover I had a small hangover after a few drinks last night and I'm still suffering from jet lag and the weather still isn't great so I think it's time we left Perth in search of the sun. We went to a couple of backpackers travel agents and picked up some more brochures for things to do over the next couple of weeks. The plan is the head north but we have no definite idea of how far we'll get or how long we'll spend in each place. There are loads of tours going from Perth to Exmouth and beyond so we'll probably follow the routes described in their brochures and see how it goes.

I don't really know much about Western Australia at all but managed to pick up some surprising facts about it today. It's massive, bigger than the whole of Western Europe but less than 2 million people live here, and 90% of those live in or around Perth. The Kimberly region in the north is 3 times the size of England and has a population of just 26000.

We had Indian for dinner which was very nice even if they did forget to bring us our Poppadoms and then went for a walk around Northbridge before getting an early night - we'll have to get up earlier tomorrow than we have in the past couple of days to pick up the car.