Margaret River

Yeeeaahhh.....Ngilgi Caves


Family photo


This stalimite is 350,000 years old


One of the hundreds of wineries


Bird park


Cool crabs


Sunset at Gracetown


The famous Margaret River




Karri Forest




6 July 2009

My family has been over the last week. We headed south to Margaret River for the weekend. Checked out some caves, wineries, and awesome beaches.

Stolen scooter

1 July 2009

I had a bit of a rough week with someone stealing my scooter. I stopped at the shops for 20minutes and came back and it was gone. Luckily the police found it dumped in a park a few days later. Its a bit smashed up but I can still use it.

The weather has turned crappy, its rainy, windy and freezing most days

Weekend away north of Perth

What am I?


Pinnacles


Chasing kangaroos


1 of the 4 places in the world where you can find stromatolites (Lake Thetis)


The gang


Pretty windy


Our beach front paradise for the night


Sunset at Dongara



hehehe...


Karen meets some dingos


the love triangle, (frenchies felli, juiette and vadim)


Crayfish capital


29 June 2009

Been in perth for ages now and havent got out of the city so my cousin let us borrow his car and we cruised north. Checked out the pinnacles, and all the towns and bays up as far as Dongara.

Blog back up and running

The gang


One of hundreds of lizards we saw sunning themselves on the road


Thirsty quokka


They look like half rat, half kangaroo.


Crystal clear water at the west end of Rottnest


Massive quokka


Ferry trip on the oceanic




Cycling round the island


Natalie and Tania


Out come the card games


Hadlees potato dice

20 June 2009

Ive been a bit lazy with my blog. So thought I better get it up and running again.

My sister Tania and Hadlee came and visited a couple of weeks back. Had a bit of a house party and got out to Rottnest with them.

Easter, and my new pet snake

My pet snake Hunter




Even my sister Tania held him


18 April 2009
For easter we all hid easter eggs around the house for each other. Andriys stooped low with the hardest to find easter egg beings vadims in my smelly work shoe. Karen got the biggest egg and we even had a real easter bunny this year.

I also got a pet snake yesterday. Its a 2 foot long stimson python, its a quick mover and really active so I named it hunter.

Scooters, Nana and exploring Perth

5 April 2009

Its been a bit tough over the last few weeks as my nana has been really sick and passed away last Saturday. She a had a nice funeral last Wednesday and will be missed a lot by the family.

Karen arrived here a couple of weeks ago so we have a full flat now. We have been exploring the city. Last Saturday we went out to the speedway to watch some racing and the figure of 8 demolition derby. The weekend before we checked out a wildlife park and the mint beaches south of Perth.

Working as a truck driver and Rottnest Island

15 March 2009

I have been a little lazy with my blog so thought I would write a couple of updates.

I have been in Perth for 2 months now. I am working as a truck driver, driving a 8 and 10 pallet truck doing deliveries around the city. It has taken me awhile to get used to the 4.45am starts but im enjoying it now.

One weekend we got out to Rottnest Island which was a 30 minute ferry ride off the coast of Fremantle City. We biked around the island, and even got to play with a Quokka (little Kangaroo). We stopped and snorkelled in bays all around the island. The clear blue water was full of heaps of cool fish, crayfish and wicked coral reef.

Vadim and I needed some wheels so we both got scooters. Our gang is called the Hell Riders.

Living in Perth

29 January 2009

Perth has about 1.5million people and is spread out like Auckland. There is great train system and some great beaches along the coast. We have been to Fremantle, Mosman Park, Cotteslow, Swanbourne, and Scaroborough.

We went to one of Andriys friends house for a bbq on Australia day. When it got dark like the rest of Perths residents we headed to the banks of the swan river to watch the hour long fire works display.

A couple of kiwis are crashing at our flat until they get a place. So had a day off job searching and Juliette (andriys friend) took us to the Perth zoo and museum.

Job hunting

The old gaol in fremantle

23 Januray 2009

We have checked out a few of the sites and all the beaches up and down the coast. The water is super warm (thats why there are lots of sharks around I guess, they have a helicopter that goes along the coast most days that follows the sharks and trys to steer them back out to sea), the weather has been mint.

Unfortunatly the mining situation has turned around negativly with the recession so employers are firing and not hiring, so I am still to find a job.

I arrive in Perth

Home sweet home

Our wicked fold outs for all the visitors from NZ

My room

18 January 2009

Yesterday was a busy day with my flights stopping through Brisbane and then Melbourne before heading out to Perth. I got super lost on the public transport and ended up getting a ride from some awesome locals to the flat (after 3hr getting there).
The flat is pretty cool in the suburb Swanbourne. We are only 5 minutes run bike ride from the beach.

Whitianga

We got some nice sized crays





The mint house, looks like a prison on the outside but is amazing on the inside

11 January 2009

It has been a good few days hanging with the family at a really mint house right on the waterways in Whitianga. It was nice to go out for a wakeboard and skurf, and go for a dive and a fish. There are not many fish out there at the moment but we caught some good crayfish which made up for it.

The countdown is on now before I head to Perth. Im knuckling down getting all my last things together and searching for a job.

Recovering in Auckland

4 Januray 2009

I have hanging out in Aucks now for the past couple of days recovering from the ride and getting ready to go to Perth. I will be heading to Whitianga for a few days to chill out with my family before flying out to Perth in 2 weeks