Day 25 - Nov 30

Wow, ok. Apparently if I wait a while between posts, everything starts to blend together.

I believe I left you after 2 of surfing, so I will start there.

The last two days of surfing were a lot choppier than the first two, so you didn't feel as if you had made much progress, when, in reality, you had.

The surfing was great, and you were hella sore afterwards, but I gotta say, if you're ever in Australia's West and need a place to chill out, hit the Lancelin Lodge. It is so laid back, and there's hardly anything to do there but surf and windsurf, so I tore through a couple books and played a lot of cards. You really don't spend money, except on food, because there is one pub, and no other entertainment, and the pub closes at 10 on weekdays. Such a cool little town. Write it down.

Anyway, we headed back to Perth, and, with no other major plans before heading to Melbourne, I stuck with the British couple (Pete and Rachel) and headed to Fremantle again.

Now the first time I was in Fremantle we were there for about 4 hours. That is not enough time to enjoy Fremantle. This time we were there for two nights, arriving late and leaving early, so essentially one full day and one night. This is too much time, but, really, too much time, when you're on vacation, just means more games of pool and catching Saw 3 (not really all that great)in the midafternoon. The coolest thing we did was check out the Fremantle Prison, which is now out of commission, and we did it on one of it's late-night torchlight tours. It was really cool, and a little creepy, hearing all the stories, seeing the gallows, solitary confinement etc. They threw in a couple of heart-jumping twists (dummy thrown from the roof to feign suicide, a couple of actors exploding through doors) and it was quite a good time. Oh, and for those 'Amazing Race' fans, if you caught one episode last year (I only saw a few, thank you Shannon, but this was one of them) where they had to run through the abandoned prison and then find a flashlight and batteries, before going into the tunnels underneath, this was where it was done, which was quite cool.

So we headed back to Perth the next day (Sunday) and booked into the YHA here (which is a great hostel) and then headed out to Cottesloe for a Sunday Session, which is a tradition where everyone drinks all Sunday afternoon. Now, I hadn't been properly drunk since the after-party for the Ultimate tournament, so this was a fun afternoon, and, I discovered, that Ultimate, the Championships, and, by association, myself, have quite a cult following, and there was some drunk Frisbee tossing going around. It was a good time. Um, this is where it sort of starts to blur. The next day....we.....

OH! We made sandwiches and headed down to Scarborough beach (where I stayed for the tournament) and spent the day on the beach. We hired surfboards and gave the waves a shot, the same waves that had been too brutal for us (well, just me, really) a couple of weeks before. The waves were tough, and got off to a good start, but I fought back and made the final score a little more respectable. It would be a lie to tell you that I won, or ever thought that I might, though. We crashed early at the hostel, and next we did a Southwest Australia 3-day tour. The first day was kind of bland. We saw some rocks that looked like they would collapse on you and climbed to the top of a big rocky hill, but that was really all that was worth mentioning. We crashed in Albany, and the next day did the whale museum, which had a cool 3D movie, but that was about it. We also did a treetop walk that was pretty and also quite scary. The trees were big. We stopped in a cabin outside a small town that I forget the name of and watched 'Wolf Creek' and all got a little scared. We made a fire! And by we I mean me and Pete and it was a great fire and we were most proud of it. I had to use a Tom Clancy novel for kindling, but it was a bad novel anyway. Today we went down into a cave, which was really cool, all the growths and stuff, it was a bit creepy. We also did Margaret River again, and drank some more wine and ate some more chocolate. It was cool.

Sorry this post is so short, even though I tried to cover eight days. My memory is getting poor, apparently, and I am also tired and have a very early flight to Melbourne tomorrow morning. The tournament starts on Saturday, and tomorrow night there is apparently a disc golf thing. I'm bad at disc golf, but will go for the BBQ.

Miss you all.

Cheers.

-P