My boyfriend, or as Australians would put it, my de facto partner, arrived here on Friday! Yay! He's finally out of Europe, not exactly travelling, but he had an exciting overnight stop in HK, and now we had five wonderful days in Perth. We toured the central business district with tall skyscrapers, took a ferry to Fremantle, sat by the beach drinking wine, walked through King's Park and botanical gardens, went to the beach, and almost attended a local rock festival, a dawn service and a parade commemorating passed away ANZACs (Australia & New Zealand Armed Corps). And by almost attended I mean that we were either late (dawn service) or had a look and decided to enjoy the event from afar (parade from the tv, rock festival in the park outside).
We also went to the Fremantle Street Art Festival, which was the best city festivals I've ever been to (probably the only one? Hahah!). We saw comedy acts, mime, juggling, breakdance, trapeze artists, football tricks, magic tricks, and the world's most tattooed man on a 2-metre tall unicycle juggling a flaming torch, a machete and an apple which he proceeded to eat! Fantastic Freaks in Freo the ad said, and they weren't lying!
One of the best part about being in Australia has been the wonderfully diverse and different nature. The birds are green and yellow and pink, and the flowers are nothing like European ones, and the crows make sheep-like angry baby sounds, and the bushland with its dead-looking plants... we saw a document of the effect of the floods on the local ecosystems, and I would love to be there to see the deserts blossoming and thousands of pelicans gathering to nest on tiniest river islands. Also I'm yet to spot a kangaroo! I guess I have to settle with black swans on the Swan river, pink pigeons and green parrots on the campus, and thousands of green-yellow-red parrots gathering in the alienesque pines trees by the beach singing as loudly as a rock concert! I promise photos of the exciting nature!
The winter rains started then late on Tuesday evening, so the honeymoon with Perth is over and its all about work and thesis writing for us... until next weekend of course! There's the Royal Wedding on Friday, the May Day celebrations on Sunday... and hopefully weather warm enough to go for a swim!
sheep-like angry baby sounds *rofl* :'D Have fun!
ReplyDeleteWell that's what they sound like! A combination of baaaaah and waaaa - bf first thought they were made by a playful kid! Actually can here them now outside my window. Maybe will have to upload a soundbite one day!
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