Perth Day 3.

Woke up at around 6.30am, too late to catch the sun rise or go to the beach. Blee.

Packed up everything onto the bus, then took the bus to Macdonald's. Ate a bacon burger thing which we don't have in Singapore. Darren was at the same table as me, and he ordered pancakes. He ate by pouring just the right amount of honey onto the pancake so none of it spills onto the plate, then adds half of the butter from the "sachet" and spreads it evenly onto the pancake. Then cuts the pancake into equal, square sections. Gosh. I would have just spam everything at once and cut everything messily. Haha. Sophistication.

After breakfast, we went to an Apple Cider Factory. I expected a huge concrete building with factory doors and a loading bay on one side surrounded by a metal barbed wire fence. But it was in fact a small building made of wood surrounded by a plantation and a vast lake. With an abandoned mine in the center.

That wooden structure thing to the left is the mine called the Hunter's Venture Mine.

The factory/farm diversified itself into many different aspects of agriculture like fishing or breeding fish instead of just apples.

The "guide's" name was Steve and he was holding a Marron.

Black and White photos are nice. =)

This was a lake to the left of the farm that would be open for fishing in Autumn? If I remember correctly.

Robot! =D

This machine was actually used to do something to make the something into something. Okay I don't know what it's used for lar, it's just a random photo. =D

Tasted and tried some of the apple juice after that. Like, there were many different flavours? Apple and Cinnamon, Apple and Ginger, Apple and Apple, and Pineapple. Bought 2 1litre bottles, cause they were considerably cheap at AUD$4? Drank one throughout the rest of the trip, the other I brought back to Singapore.

After the buying and tasting and everything, boarded the bus again. This time we went to Springhill Farm. There was no reception for handphones, let alone Wi Fi. =/

First thing we did was put our bags in our room. Same room as Nick Chew, Wan, Nick Ho and Lenson. Actually it was just 5 beds lined side by side. But it's so much better than squeezing 6 or 7 people into a tent. =P

And immediately after putting our bags, we saw Kangaroos outside! And goats and sheep and this emu!

I think this emu is super greedy and evil. Because of the way it grabs food. Haha. It ate flowers.

I think Kangaroos are awesome animals.

The goats are the ones on the right btw.

Our rooms were to the right.

Then I went around to the back of our rooms and saw this sheep.

It was about 2 meters aways from me with no fence or border at all.

Tried very unsuccessful to get it to go back into the sheep pen. But then it could run super fast when it wanted la. O.o Like can you imagine losing to a sheep in a race!?! In the end it ran out of the farm. But the farmer said it would come back when it was hungry. =)

We had Chinese food for lunch. Actually I didn't know it was Chinese food until someone told me. =/

After lunch, we boarded the back of this truck thing.

I think we looked like sheep or cattle. Haha. But it was super windy when the truck moved.

The farm was about the size of 60 hectares, which is 1/10th the size of Singapore?

We went to this building which was super full of hay stacks.

There were flies everywhere though, swallowed about 1 or 2 flies. Bleh. The flies have no taste at all, just full of protein. =X


We took some hay from the hay stacks, then went to feed the cows after that.

I think the cows look super dao or buay song. Like all giving angry faces. =D

Even when they eating also so dao. =/

We went back to our rooms for a water break after that, then we went to feed the animals with bread. But I didn't take any photos. =D

Then we went to see how sheep are sheared. I think it feels so painful, like some barber cutting your hair botak with a razor.

Finished Product.

Then we went off to fish some crab/lobster/crustacean thing.

Inside that muddy pond was a small lobster like creature.

Er, this was taken after it was cooked. But it's like prawns or mini lobsters la.

Super irritating la, some would slip out through the nets, but it was very fun la. Like kampong fishing or something.

Then a few of us (actually a lot) decided to walk back to the farm instead of seating on the truck thing.

It was quite a short walk, and it was like 22 degrees weather even though it was bright and sunny.

The cloud looks like Australia?

The Sun rays were very nice. Breathtaking.

This tree looks evil! EEEEVVVIIIILL!!

This is a flower stalk. I don't know where the flower went.

We made it back to the farm alive. Haha. Had to cross some barbed wire fences and an electric one. And faced lots of dangerous creatures like the emu. O.o It drizzled for a short while too.

Then we decided to go and photograph the kangaroos up close. =D

National Geographic Photographer. =D

Went for dinner after that. Which was, Italian food? I dunno lar. It's edible can already.

Went out to photograph the sunset after that. The sunset was normal, but the surrounding horizon and landscape was amazingly large.

Haha and I decided to try if I could edit the Sunset.

Looks oranger?

Nothing much after that, oh yes we had desert which was ice cream with jelly and cocktail. =)

Bleh. That ends day 3. =)

Spaceport Singapore.

Link.

According to the website, it will be built near Changi Airport and is estimated to be completed in 2009? So cool lar. Spaceport in Singapore.

Yea, lets go spend USD$102,000 and go on a sub-orbital space flight. =D

Perth Day 2.

(Okay I know I'm taking a horribly long time to blog everything, haha. Been kind of busy the past few days, and now I have a sore throat and fever. =/)

Woke up quite late in the morning cause we slept late. =/ Went outside, and saw this cool car parked right outside our room.

So cool. It's like the car from Transformers. Blee. And the water droplets on the car were actually condensed. That shows how cold it was at night right?

Packed our bags, left them under the bus, then me and Lenson went walking around the perimeter again cause it was so boring waiting for breakfast to start.

Our room is the on the ground floor. It doesn't link to the upper level. =(

The long long road again!

There was a playground around the back of the inn! We played for like 5 minutes then we got bored. Short attention span. =/

Lenson decided the ground would make a nice photograph. No la, he was taking photos of a bunch of snails.

Okay, went for breakfast after that. Breakfast was a hotel buffet style kind of thing. Got bacon and eggs and hash browns and sausages and cornflakes and toast and milk and orange juice and other breakfast foods. So shiok la, but I didn't take any photos. =/

After breakfast, we boarded the bus for another long drive. This time we went to the Valley Of The Giants Tree Top Walk. Awesome place man. At this point we travelled about 452km from Perth already. It's a forest made up of Karri and Tingle trees and has Red Tingle trees which can only be found in that area.

Entrance.

And the tree top walk is much higher and longer than Singapore's HSBC one, which I visited when on an NPCC Unit hike 2 years ago.

All of the signs at the tree top walk are shaped like leaves.

The trees are super tall man. Taller than me can? =X

The suspension walkway was not exactly rigid and stable. But it would only shake around at most.

We reached the highest point, which was 40 metres above the ground. The highest point for the HSBC one is 25 metres.

There were various viewing platforms to stand on.

So tempting... ;)

Mr Yeo and Mr Koh. CSI photographers? =D

We also saw this trail that would lead all the way to Perth. About a 6 week hike? I think your legs would be like super nua jelly at the end. =D

That's our bus with Lenson taking a photo of something.

Okay after the awesome giant taller-than-Minghui trees, we boarded the bus and went to a Lavender and Berry Farm.

Lavender and Berries!

The farm was located at the edge of a lake/pond/river/body of water which had really picturesque views. Like something out of a fairy tale or Enid Blyton book. You can just imagine pixies jumping around or rabbits and Teletubbies hiding around somewhere.

Alpacas were like Llamas? Don't have a nice picture of them though. So go google.

Saw this doll near the toilet. I think it looks really freaky. All you need is some horrid image editing.

Rawr.

We had a pinic lunch next to the lake/pond/river/body of water.

Fresh is best. =D

Erh, not really nice cause of the numerous flies swooping down and trying to land on the fries and chicken. Blah. But after that we had berry-flavoured ice cream. =)

And I realised I don't remember seeing a real live duck when in Singapore. Goat, sheep, white tiger, boa constrictor all see before. But not a single duck. =/

The water is much clearer than any lake in Singapore. Unless you count swimming pools. =D


This duck was like less than a meter away cause it thought I washad food.

And we were given food to feed the Alpacas. But most of us used the food to feed the ducks anyways. (Cause ducks are cuter! =D)

They didn't really dare to eat out of our hands, unlike the animals we would feed later.

And there were lots of bees getting nectar from flowers too.

The bus which "accompanied" us throughout the 6 days in Australia.

We stopped at various petrol kiosks and rest stops like this BP throughout the journey.

Bought a stick of mentos. It looks exactly like the mentos in Singapore! =D

After another arduous, long bus ride, we went to the Ngilgi Cave.

See the sign pointing to the cave? ;)

Before entering the caves we stopped at this bird bath which was directly above another point in the caves.

Taking photos in a cave is near impossible without a flash or tripod so the lighting looks unnatural.

Directly above this "corner" was the bird bath thing.

We went on the Torchlight tour which required no climbing or crawling, although there was another Adventure tour that went down to the deepest parts of the cave.

Saw lots of the Stalagmites and Stalactites scattered throughout the caves. And I had to crouch about 30 degrees at some points because minghui very tall the ceilings were so low.

Then, whilst in the cave, the most unbelievable thing happened to me. It was shocking, unpredictable, unimaginable.


My camera ran out of battery. =(

Ah wells, so I didn't take any photos at all after that.

But we went to a sheep farm, saw lots of small cute lambs and sheep. And we ate lamb for dinner there. =\

Then we witnessed how the farmers fed the lambs milk there, and some of us got a chance to try it. Then we went to a souvenir shop where I bought a dog and lamb soft toy made of wool, which I gave to my sisters back in Singapore. =)

The dog is the one on the right btw.

After the sheep farm, we took the bus to Broadwater Beach Resort.

Stayed there for the night with Nick Chew, Wan, Nick Koh, Rayson, and Si Peng. The resort we stayed was quite large with an attic and a kitchen and all.

Lenson and I went around to try and find some place that sold food. All we found were some vending machines and a games room where everyone was playing pool or arcade games. Haha.

Then Lenson and I went to the bar there. =D Tried to buy food, not alcoholic drinks okay? But the till was closed, so we couldn't buy anything.

But we met this guy who was friendly and asked us where we were from. Turns out his father was a soldier who served in Singapore and he lived in some estate as a child.

Kind of interesting to meet someone from another country who used to live in the country you live in?

But anyways, we went back to our room/chalet after that. Slept at around 1am.

Day 2 ends here. =)