Scarborough Beach Panorama!

I took a bunch of photos at Scarbrough Beach today and decided to make them into a panoramic - it's just like being there! (minus the heat and wind)...check it out! Click the image to enlarge..

Various happenings from a land down unda'

Usually my posts are focused on a particular event, well not this one. I've been pretty tied up with Uni work lately, all these deadlines and my prior slacking has caught up to me. Luckily (the school work) will all be done June 16th. That also means I'll be leaving Perth soon :( however, as you'll notice from this post, the weather is going down hill. It's your turn to rub it in Canada!

Anika buried on Cottesloe beach.. what can I say, I got bored.

Happy Birthday Alex!!!

Hanna, Anika and Nilesh...eating Alex's "German Cheesecake"

Janina, in my jumper. She's very short.

And here is the rain....lots of it.

Some more...this is what woke me up this morning. Torrential rainfall!

Since my last post, I've read a book called "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" by Robert Kiyoski.. I recommend it for anyone.

Well, it's still raining... Perth can you please be nice and stop, I would like to go to the beach again!

I hear it snowed in Calgary today... ;)

Rottnest Island!

Rottnest "Rotto" Island is so awesome! It's 19km east of Fremo so instead of swimming we took the ferry there. You can bike around the whole island, It's only about 24km round trip! But we opted for the shorter trek of around 15km.

We made it to a few beaches and found some Quokka which look like a cross between a rat and a kangaroo. They are pretty cute, very soft and timid and they don't bite but all they want is your food and if you don't have any they go on to the next person or try to dig into your backpack.

After we finished biking we had some time to spend on the beach before we went back to Fremo, we found some pretty cool animals there...see below :)

Website: http://www.rottnestisland.com/
Wiki on Quokka: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quokka

Perth CBD, such a great shot.

Me on the ferry.

A lighthouse in Fremo, on the way to Rotto.

A circle around the sun in the clouds! I know...it just looked cool.

Anika, Janina, Eddie and Alex jumping in the water.

Little salmon bay beach on Rotto.

Everybody biking...except me of course ;)

So beautiful!

Our own private beach..yep that's the whole thing.

Quokka!
They are only found on islands in Western Australia! Some people will tell you they are only found on Rottnest, but they lie :) We should have stuffed one in our backpack..or maybe two. Their baby's are also called Joey's.
They are almost as tall as Janina.

In the water with a stingray, obviously it didn't sting me.
We were all done biking the island and had to wait an hour for our ferry (we didn't want to be late because we almost missed it in the morning) so we found a nearby beach and also found these cool animals.

A Pelican...yep that close. He was searching for food..there was tons of little fish around.

Alex and Janina at the end of the Jetty,
you can see the Perth CBD between them if you zoom in enough.

Sunset soon..on the way back on the ferry and to
Little Creatures for the best burger I've ever had.

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Sydney! Bondi Beach

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I didn't get a chance to fight any sharks at the famous Bondi Beach, but it was a decent day. A bit windy, but what can you do. I can tell why it's so popular for surfing, as well as shark attacks..if I was a shark I would look for food there too.

About Bondi Beach
It is about one kilometre long and receives many visitors throughout the year. Surf Life Saving Australia has given different hazard ratings to Bondi Beach in 2004. While the northern end has been rated a gentle 4 (with 10 as the most hazardous), the southern side is rated as a 7 due to a famous rip current known as the "Backpackers' Express" because of its proximity to the bus stop, and the unwillingness of tourists to walk the length of the beach to safer swimming - such as us...

The south end of the beach is generally reserved for surfboard riding...oops. Yellow and red flags define safe swimming areas, and you are advised to swim between them.

There is an underwater shark net shared, during the summer months, with other beaches along the southern part of the coast.

On average, each year, Lifeguards rescue about 2,500 people and they even have their own television show in Australia!

Website: http://www.bondibeach.com/
Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bondi_Beach,_New_South_Wales

Oh! I did read the sign...

Me with the beach in the background...I had to state the obvious.

Me with graffiti that resembles me..well atleast the colour of shirt I was wearing.

The south end of the beach with Icebergs hotel in the distance.

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Australian words for the week

BTF -> Between The Flags..is where the lifeguards will save you.

City Beach!

Michael and I went to City Beach. It's just south of Scarborough beach and just north of Cottesloe beach. Ahh beaches everywhere!

Old lighthouse, the surf was huge because of these rocks!
Michael got taken down..I laughed, and then also got taken out.

If you enlarge this you can see heaps of kite surfers.

Kite Surfers up close

I <3 Beach

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I'm Torn

I would rather be on the beach. I have so much damned homework to do. 2 assignments and a statistics test due by Sunday at 11:59pm. It is 32 degrees out and I want to not do my homework and just go to the beach. Can I? no..I'm way too much of a geek to do something like that.

I will go to the beach on Monday, I don't care if it's only 25 degrees.

I miss you beach.