I've been so busy with my clinical placement these past two weeks that I never finished writing about my express trip around Oz. When we were down south we did this Tree Top walk and climbed

After we got back up from down south, Flash and I rented a car to drive up north. There's a huge difference between north and south. In the south you get the cooler weather, the wineries, and greenery. Up north you get extreme heat, desert like dryness, and everything is very isolated from each other. It was pretty much night and day.

When we got the Exmouth, our most northern destination, we thought we had arrived at a ghost town. Maybe it was the heat of close to 40 degrees but that place was deserted. In the brochures it looks like the place to be, with tons of stuff to do, but definitely a disappointment. Originally we had planned to stay up there for a few days but ended up only stay for the night. We did get up close and personal with the wild Emus. They were everywhere and loud. I seriously thought that they would attack our tents during the night. Here's a pic of two of them walking towards our car and tent. Just a little scary considering they have a rep of attacking people...

Once we left Emuville we drove to Monkey Mia, home of the wild Dolphins. On our way there we drove past the Tropic of Capricorn.

At Monkey Mia there is basically a big patch of open grass area for people to set up their tents. There are no designated area so wherever you can find a spot, it's yours. So we chose what we thought would be the best spot available and apparently it was an honoured area.

There were these 2 groups of Aussies and a Swedish sitting there and we later found out that they had been there for the past few days. They told us later that the night before was extremely crowded except for their area. Apparently they stood their ground and no one dared pitch their tent in their area. But we kinda just kinda slid right in and started setting up before they knew what was happening. They were pretty impressed at how we just acknowledged their presence and then went about setting our tent. Without knowing, we had just been welcomed into the "big boss" tent group. The Swedish couple was hilarious. They had been saving up and planning this "around Australia" trip for seven years. Yes you read correctly, seven years. They were catching the bus from town to town until they got all the way around Australia. I don't think I could do that but good on them. The guy was so anal and had a schedule for everything they did, from watching the sunset to when they were eating dinner.

Here are some pics of up north