For the last four months or so we have been living in a bubble.
Everyone had us convinced that WA (Western Australia) is nothing but a bunch of country loving, laid back Aussie's that don't do much on their vacations. WOW! Were we wrong!
Our first vacation is here after 12 gruelling weeks of teaching and we had plans to head up North to Exmouth and swim with the whale sharks, snorkel with the sea turtles, and be complete beach bums. The only problem with that plan... everyone and their grandmother thought of it too.
We started looking a month or two ago for hostels or campsites to stay at: booked. Then I looked at hotels: booked. Then I thought okay, tours: booked. Well what about the $400 swim with the whale shark snorkel trip; the guy just laughed at me... booked months ago.
So apparently these Aussies have been pulling the wool over our eyes as they had their trips booked years in advance.
On the upside, perhaps this is our saving grace. Mom and Dad just left after 4 weeks with us and I don't think we cooked or stayed at home more than 2 nights the entire month. Weekends were spent in Swan Valley, Margaret River, Rotto and weekdays were spent doing everything in between.... including teaching.
Our first day of holidays were spent golfing Perth's number one rated course, Joondalup. After a stellar round we came home to left over Indian food and had a three hour nap (well, I did). We then headed off to our beach volleyball game and destroyed the competition. We played the whole "we don't have sand in Canada" card and it was over before it even started! ;)
With the North ruled out, we're heading South for our holidays. We plan to play a little more golf, head to Yanchep National Park to see the Koalas, then head South to the Karri Forest and Albany (the first settled place in WA). If anything, we'll get some sun, fail at surfing at Golden Bay, drink wine in the valley, and climb some really, really old trees in the Karri Forest.
Needless to say we're booking our trip to Vietnam in July asap!
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