Of WA and AS

Back from Alice Springs and Western Australia just in time for xmas (arrived on xmas eve 9pm). There are more that i will write about once i get my pictures sorted but here are just some thoughts... which may or may not make any sense to anyone, but me.

1) 80000years of no change isn't necessary something i would be proud of. Understand why, yes, but not admire.

2) How is it possible that when you are all packed for summer (think beach shorts and tank tops) and the weather kept at a steady before 20deg, with wind chill and rain?

3) Never travel in a group unless you are pretty darn sure you can take any potentially unforeseeable crap.

4) Esperance has the BEST beaches ever.

5) Never plan a holiday and expect that things will go as you plan.

6) Sleeping out in the bush under the stars isn't as romantic as it sounds, especially when you have to consider shoe-stealing dingos, rain, red dust getting onto your clothes/hair and looking like a stuffed sausage in the swag (thing you sleep in out in the bush).

7) When you wake up every morning before 6am so as to go hiking for another 3 hours, you will be hungry enough to eat anything.

8) Being out in the 'bush', gives you a different perspective on simple things such as washing plates without the benefit of rinsing.

9) Fats lost from eating healthily and daily exercise in Alice Springs can just as easily be gained back by long periods of sitting (driving) & eating at recommended restaurants every night around Western Australia.

10) Bedlinen can go up to 1000 threadcount.

11) Japanese otosans and obasans bring Shoju on camping trip.

12) Camel does not taste better than Kangaroo.

13) The distance driven around WA for 1 week is equivalent to driving from Perth to Singapore.

14) Skydiving ROCKS.

15) Banging table doesn't.

16) Steve Carell is a buffoon in The Office.

17) Gordon Ramsey is cool when he gets all heated up.

18) It is possible to climb the Gloucester Tree and take pictures at the same time.

19) Wine oaked for a year but just bottled for 2 weeks can taste delicious if the harvest is good.

20) Finally, a holiday is only a holiday if you can enjoy yourself and not get too hung up about things. Well... whether this has been a holiday, i think i shall have to keep that information to myself.