Happy Australia Day!!!

I can't believe it but this is my second Australia Day celebration. This marks a year since I've been here. That's incredible. It seriously feels like yesterday that I left Canada. We were talking about this the other day and can only shake our heads at the thought of the new group of master's students. They started the intro/bridging program last week and those poor suckers don't even know what they're getting themselves into. It's nice being on the other side looking in. I'm glad I went through it but I don't think I ever could do it again.

Anyhow, my housemates and I went to check out the fireworks at the foreshore with the city scrapers in the background. It was great because pretty much the entire city goes there. Unlike in Canada, that is the only place in Perth where fireworks are set off. They went on for a good half hour and the ending was amazing. They must've spent half a million dollars on the last minute alone. I've never seen so many fireworks go off at once for so long. The coolest part, they had fireworks going off from the city buildings. The fun part was when it was all over. We didn't want to get stuck in traffic so we literally sped walk all the way back to the car. We probably passed people who left before the fireworks ended. We were flying.

Back to the most isolated city in the world...

I'm back from my crash course of Australia. What should have taken a few months to do, Flash and I did in only a month. We drove all around the West coast, down south and up north before flying to Melbourne and Sydney. Here's an idea of the distance we covered on the West Coast. We went as far south as Albany and up north to Exmouth.

It all started on New Years eve and definitely one to remember. I had planned to celebrate the New Year in Albany, the next major city outside of Perth and about a 5 hour drive. Becks and another friend came along too and Becks was suppose to have the accommodation planned out for the first night. She didn't realize that Caravan parks existed so we ended driving to a campsite in a National park with nothing around and no facilities. We drove so far away from the city that there was no point trying to get back after we set up our tent. It didn't help that we had to drive on dirt roads with no lights and down a very steep hill to get there. It was actually looked kinda scary at night, especially with signs like these at the entrance of the National Park. So basically our first Australian New Years eve was a write off. There was nothing to around there and I was so disappointed that we just decided to skip the countdown and wait for the Canadian one the next day. Next year I'm going to big ass party. The next morning Flash and I got up early and walked around on the beach. It was really nice in daylight but driving there at night was not something I expected. This was one I'll never forget.

Back to the most isolated city in the world...

I'm back from my crash course of Australia. What should have taken a few months to do, Flash and I did in only a month. We drove all around the West coast, down south and up north before flying to Melbourne and Sydney. Here's an idea of the distance we covered on the West Coast. We went as far south as Albany and up north to Exmouth.

It all started on New Years eve and definitely one to remember. I had planned to celebrate the New Year in Albany, the next major city outside of Perth and about a 5 hour drive. Becks and another friend came along too and Becks was suppose to have the accommodation planned out for the first night. She didn't realize that Caravan parks existed so we ended driving to a campsite in a National park with nothing around and no facilities. We drove so far away from the city that there was no point trying to get back after we set up our tent. It didn't help that we had to drive on dirt roads with no lights and down a very steep hill to get there. It was actually looked kinda scary at night, especially with signs like these at the entrance of the National Park. So basically our first Australian New Years eve was a write off. There was nothing to around there and I was so disappointed that we just decided to skip the countdown and wait for the Canadian one the next day. Next year I'm going to big ass party. The next morning Flash and I got up early and walked around on the beach. It was really nice in daylight but driving there at night was not something I expected. This was one I'll never forget.