Perth Australia...Finally!

I flew to Perth Australia during the night and it took me ages. Its miles away! I landed  and was really tired and was expecting to queue for ages in immigration as I have been told by many backpackers but when I landed I was through in minutes. I think because I declared things on my boarding pass they assumed I wasn't hiding anything. Although when I looked back there were loads of chinese people been asked to empty their suitcases while immigration were looking at funny sorts of food they had.

I found the train and headed to my Air B&B, it was 8am when I arrived and my room was beautiful. I was staying with a mum and two daughters and a cat and they were lovely.

My first mission having arrived was to find a hairdresser. I went for a wonder and found one that had just opened and it was great. I finally started to feel at home.  Afterwords, I went to a supermarket to get some food and was shocked by the prices. Australia is expensive!!!

I then walked back through some leafy streets and got home to find my air B&B hostess Louise who was a South African living in Perth. she offered to take me out and show me Perth in her top down car. The weather was lovely and we drove round Perth towards the water and to the lookout points:

I then went for a walk through the neighbourhood.

The next day I went to town.

I noticed that the town centre was very similar to a UK town centre with some nice buildings dotted around. I went to buy some more paracetamol and it cost me $5 in a discount drug store!!

I then walked to the botanic gardens and spotted wildlife along the way:

There were some lovely views from the botanics:

My first day in Perth was great but I did feel it lacked a bit of wow factor, especially the town centre.

The next day was a trip to fremantle. For some reason Fremantle felt similar to a town in the highlands of scotland.

It was very quaint and had a nice seaside feel and was full of little galleries selling art from inspired by the sea (like the highlands).

I went to the fremantle markets where I picked up some aboriginal souvenirs  and then went to buy fish and chips. They were good but not as good as the UK, partly as they do not have haddock here.

There was a lovely beach:

and a boat museum and more views of the sea.

I then relaxed in a coffee shop people watching for a while before I went back to Perth via train.

I then made a friend of Girl Crew Perth and we went out to dinner that night. She was an amazing person, she picked me up in her car and then she paid for my meal when I went to the toilet! She then also suggested she take me to the pinnacles on her day off.

The next day my air b&b hostess took me to Cottesloe Beach.

We had a great chat and a lovely drive and then she dropped me in town to visit the Perth Art Gallery.

I then had a lovely last night watching really bad australian tv while my air b&B hostess tried to explain this was the best they had. It was terrible! Australian TV is awful.

My last day in Perth and my new friend picked me up in her car and we went off to the pinnacles. We had a great drive and I saw kangaroos! We then came to the pinnacles and they were amazing!

It was a desert full of large rocks:

After our amazing trip to the pinnacles we went to the sand dunes on the way back:

We had a great time sliding down them and getting sand everywhere!

After our great day out we went back to her house and had dinner before she dropped me off at the airport and said goodbye to go to Cairns. She was such a lovely person.

I really liked Perth but i think to enjoy it you need a car to go to the natural beauty around it. Perth as a city is a little bland. Its just a city but its the surrounding sites that are worth visiting.