19/8/2015
Yesterday night I enjoyed
watching Tim Minchin and the Heritage Orchestra. Fantastic British
born Australian comedian, actor and very skilled musician. Tim was
raised in Perth and studied at UWA. This production in Albert Hall
with a whole orchestra is amazing – I dig his jokes and his musical
talent. Extremely good fun.
Finally time to get the
Aeropress out in the morning and get a BP coffee into my system. Left
early to see the pelican feeding at 8:45 at the river. Really cool
birds – all of them rather young according to the volunteer that
fed the 4 pelicans that were there today. They were fighting over the
fish that was thrown their way by the attendees.
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| Posers! |
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| Chasing one away - almost like chickens! |
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| Jumping |
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| Chasing again |
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| Catching a fish |
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| Trying to pull a fish out of each others bill |
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| Catching a fish again |
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Afterwards I drove to Pot
Alley – a huge rocky cliff – just outside of Kalbarri. There was
a huge group of dolphins swimming close to the cliffs and probably
hunting. I can't recall ever having seen so many of them in one
place.
Several kilometers down
the road, I visited Island Rock, Castle Cove Lookout and the Natural
Bridge. There is a nice coastal walkway that connects these lookouts,
particularly pretty in the wildflower season. There were at least 4
humpback whales out in the bay, too far out to take proper photos
though. They were breaching, slapping their flippers and seemed to be
having a nice day out in the cold blue Indian ocean.
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| Humpback - far out, even with the 300mm zoom |
Near Port Gregory is the
Hutt Lagoon – which is a pink lake. I stopped to take some photos
but couldn't get close enough to the water to get the shots that I
wanted, it was too muddy.
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| Beautiful colors - too good not to stop the van to take some photos! |
Made it to Geraldton mid
afternoon, just when the thick clouds started to open up and release
some showers. Sat down in the van to read, download today's photos
from the camera, place several phone calls and in the evening watch
Randy Pausch's famous Last Lecture at Carnegie Mellon University.
I've seen this 80 minute long video already two or three times prior
but enjoyed it and his message once again. I can highly recommend it
as he sums up some important lessons in life.
Distance traveled: 194km
20/8/2015
Enjoyed a great cooked
breakfast and talking to an elder Australian couple and afterwards to
a young pair from the Netherlands.
Drove into Geraldton to
get supplies and finally get a haircut to look like a normal person
again before arriving in Perth. Had a coffee at the Dome right at the
beach and was delighted by their fast WiFi connection – enough to
download several new podcast episodes and update some apps while
sipping an okay coffee.
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| Geraldton life savers tower |
On the way south I stopped
at the leaning tree – and it was windy there ;-)
Checked into the campsite
at Jurien Bay and walked to the jetty and the beach to take some
photos. There are many permanent campers on this ground, some of them
have beautiful herb and flower gardens next to their homes.
Dinner was excellent –
wild caught Australian crimson snapper, buttered broccoli and a mixed
salad. This is probably the last campground I visit on this trip, so
I went for gold. The camp kitchen didn't have a stove, so I had to
bring my own to cook, but it was definitely worth the effort!
Distance traveled: 224km
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