Wednesday
Oct262005
Down South
Wednesday, October 26, 2005 at 09:15PM
Wednesday, October 19 to Monday, October 24
(note: I'm currently sitting in the best hostel ever - right on the beach- eating my sandwich and trying to catch up on my writing. There's a bunch of people around but I be needing some alone time right now so.... hi) Yeti arrived back in Perth on Tuesday night and was going to head up to the farm on Wednesday to pick me up - unfortunately when you have a flash car without key locks in the doors and only electronic access, it's a little difficult to fix anything when your battery is draining (unbeknownst to you) to nothing while you are away for eight days.
So, Timbo and I went redback hunting instead - and don't you just know? it was in the last place we looked. Although, since the first place was the lawn chairs I'd been sitting in most of the day - I'm not TOO upset about that.
So, ladies and gentlemen, I present the dreaded redback spider of Australia.....
....Eating one of those black ones from the post before with the little shining eye.
Serves him right, I say.
After Tim was done all his work - he drove me back into Perth to Yeti's house.
I was still getting over my cold and sleeping a lot (like I have since I got here) and frankly, for someone used to being alone most of the time, a bit tired of being a burden to others (or guest or whatever you want to call it) so I'm glad that Yeti and I didn't do all the things he had planned. We did have dinner with his mom on the Thursday night though, she's a Canadian, and that was nice.
We did some sightseeing downtown (and yes, I refrained from purchasing a keychain made from a kangaroo paw), although I did buy an iron ore bracelet, walked King's Park and saw the sights and went down to Freemantle on Friday. It was a bit of a rainy day so we got a bit wet but all good.
Yeti worked in the park so he knew lots of neat stuff and names of things - not a one of which I could repeat back to you.
You'll more than likely have to wait for the pictures I think.
I did, however, eat raw oysters, which was something I'd wanted to do (kangaroo? check. redback? check. wallaby? check. raw oysters? check. you get the idea).
The next day (Saturday) we drove to Lancelin so Drew, Steve, Yeti and Greg could ride their bikes (dirt bikes? ) on the dunes there, which I have dubbed in my mind as 'spa day' because up there on the dunes with the ocean breeze it's pretty much a full body exfoliation. Especially when one of the boys forgets you're there and rooster tails a MASSIVE amount of sand full onto your entire back side.
Anyways, the dunes - which are apparantly the biggest in Western Australia -are amazing. And cool. And warm. And bright and white. And, although I enjoyed myself, I think I'd rather have been riding as well even though I don't know how, because it looked like a ton of fun.
On Sunday, we picked up my rental car, hit the beach - where I did (kind of) swim in the Indian Ocean. It was cold, man. Jeez. It's only spring here.
Then we met Dan and Jen for thai food for dinner and went to the Ocean Beach Hotel and a night time tour around Perth and King's Park. They were good to see - Dan and Jen I met in Vancouver with Matt and she's a Canadian who moved here to be with her boyfriend so hopefully it was good for her to see a Canadian. It was also weird because I met them both almost exactly a year ago. And who'dve thought 350ish days later we'd be meeting on the other side of the world for dinner.
Today (Monday) I packed up my rental car with Yeti's swag, wetsuit, snorkel, eskie etc and headed out of the city.
So, I guess this sounds a bit like just a list of what I've done. And it is. And Jen,also is probably out there saying, "But what's it like? How is driving on the other side of the road? How do you *feel*? " Cause I always tell you guys how I feel. In a word (okay, a few cause when have you ever known me to use one word fifty will do just as well?) Perth depressed me. A lot. I'm angry and envious and resentful and sad. Poor Yeti probably really doesn't want to see me for a couple of years although none of it has anything to do with him and he shouldn't have had to bear the brunt of my quietness / sorry-for-myself-ness. I'll tell you how and why Perth made me feel all those things and how the drive away from it with the prospect of only my own company was the best I've felt since I've got here another time.
Maybe tomorrow night I only have half the words in my head today and maybe tomorrow I'll have the rest.
I'm booked at this hostel for 2 nights so if you're familiar with WA then I'm in Dunsborough and tomorrow I will be daytripping to Cape Naturaliste to see if I can spy the humpbacks, Sugarloaf Rock, Canal Rocks and Ngilgi Cave.
At least, that's the plan.
Well, the plan for tomorrow anyways. I was originally thinking the last few days that I would drive down to Albany and see all the sights along the way since it's all supposed to be beautiful but to be honest, Matt's hometown is Albany and at this point I am so utterly heartily sick and tired of him that I don't want to go anywhere near the place.
And I haven't even seen him. How's that for and end-of-the-day cliffhanger? Hey? Hey?
I think I'd like to homebase from here because it's such a beautiful place and spend my days in this area, taking it slow and easy and restful. Laying in that hammock beside the beach and putting Yeti's deckchair in the surf to read my book. Writing. Writing a bit more about the little things I've seen instead of just the big things and taking some time to slow down and look around and figure out where I put the "real" Jen in the last couple of weeks.
It's not like an entire year won't give me enough time to see all this stuff later.
Right now, I really DO need to spend some time alone. To percolate.
(note: I'm currently sitting in the best hostel ever - right on the beach- eating my sandwich and trying to catch up on my writing. There's a bunch of people around but I be needing some alone time right now so.... hi) Yeti arrived back in Perth on Tuesday night and was going to head up to the farm on Wednesday to pick me up - unfortunately when you have a flash car without key locks in the doors and only electronic access, it's a little difficult to fix anything when your battery is draining (unbeknownst to you) to nothing while you are away for eight days.
So, Timbo and I went redback hunting instead - and don't you just know? it was in the last place we looked. Although, since the first place was the lawn chairs I'd been sitting in most of the day - I'm not TOO upset about that.
So, ladies and gentlemen, I present the dreaded redback spider of Australia.....
....Eating one of those black ones from the post before with the little shining eye.
Serves him right, I say.
After Tim was done all his work - he drove me back into Perth to Yeti's house.
I was still getting over my cold and sleeping a lot (like I have since I got here) and frankly, for someone used to being alone most of the time, a bit tired of being a burden to others (or guest or whatever you want to call it) so I'm glad that Yeti and I didn't do all the things he had planned. We did have dinner with his mom on the Thursday night though, she's a Canadian, and that was nice.
We did some sightseeing downtown (and yes, I refrained from purchasing a keychain made from a kangaroo paw), although I did buy an iron ore bracelet, walked King's Park and saw the sights and went down to Freemantle on Friday. It was a bit of a rainy day so we got a bit wet but all good.
Yeti worked in the park so he knew lots of neat stuff and names of things - not a one of which I could repeat back to you.
You'll more than likely have to wait for the pictures I think.
I did, however, eat raw oysters, which was something I'd wanted to do (kangaroo? check. redback? check. wallaby? check. raw oysters? check. you get the idea).
The next day (Saturday) we drove to Lancelin so Drew, Steve, Yeti and Greg could ride their bikes (dirt bikes? ) on the dunes there, which I have dubbed in my mind as 'spa day' because up there on the dunes with the ocean breeze it's pretty much a full body exfoliation. Especially when one of the boys forgets you're there and rooster tails a MASSIVE amount of sand full onto your entire back side.
Anyways, the dunes - which are apparantly the biggest in Western Australia -are amazing. And cool. And warm. And bright and white. And, although I enjoyed myself, I think I'd rather have been riding as well even though I don't know how, because it looked like a ton of fun.
On Sunday, we picked up my rental car, hit the beach - where I did (kind of) swim in the Indian Ocean. It was cold, man. Jeez. It's only spring here.
Then we met Dan and Jen for thai food for dinner and went to the Ocean Beach Hotel and a night time tour around Perth and King's Park. They were good to see - Dan and Jen I met in Vancouver with Matt and she's a Canadian who moved here to be with her boyfriend so hopefully it was good for her to see a Canadian. It was also weird because I met them both almost exactly a year ago. And who'dve thought 350ish days later we'd be meeting on the other side of the world for dinner.
Today (Monday) I packed up my rental car with Yeti's swag, wetsuit, snorkel, eskie etc and headed out of the city.
So, I guess this sounds a bit like just a list of what I've done. And it is. And Jen,also is probably out there saying, "But what's it like? How is driving on the other side of the road? How do you *feel*? " Cause I always tell you guys how I feel. In a word (okay, a few cause when have you ever known me to use one word fifty will do just as well?) Perth depressed me. A lot. I'm angry and envious and resentful and sad. Poor Yeti probably really doesn't want to see me for a couple of years although none of it has anything to do with him and he shouldn't have had to bear the brunt of my quietness / sorry-for-myself-ness. I'll tell you how and why Perth made me feel all those things and how the drive away from it with the prospect of only my own company was the best I've felt since I've got here another time.
Maybe tomorrow night I only have half the words in my head today and maybe tomorrow I'll have the rest.
I'm booked at this hostel for 2 nights so if you're familiar with WA then I'm in Dunsborough and tomorrow I will be daytripping to Cape Naturaliste to see if I can spy the humpbacks, Sugarloaf Rock, Canal Rocks and Ngilgi Cave.
At least, that's the plan.
Well, the plan for tomorrow anyways. I was originally thinking the last few days that I would drive down to Albany and see all the sights along the way since it's all supposed to be beautiful but to be honest, Matt's hometown is Albany and at this point I am so utterly heartily sick and tired of him that I don't want to go anywhere near the place.
And I haven't even seen him. How's that for and end-of-the-day cliffhanger? Hey? Hey?
I think I'd like to homebase from here because it's such a beautiful place and spend my days in this area, taking it slow and easy and restful. Laying in that hammock beside the beach and putting Yeti's deckchair in the surf to read my book. Writing. Writing a bit more about the little things I've seen instead of just the big things and taking some time to slow down and look around and figure out where I put the "real" Jen in the last couple of weeks.
It's not like an entire year won't give me enough time to see all this stuff later.
Right now, I really DO need to spend some time alone. To percolate.
Reader Comments (2)
Hey, that sounds like the reason you went out there, no?