Back in Perth

Hi again. We arrived back in Perth about a couple hours ago, with Lorraine cleaning out the car and I'm doing the laundry and catching up on emails. We had a leisurely drive leaving the caravan park around 8:30, stopping along the way a few times to photo flowers and shrubs and take looks at the ocean scenery. As always we stopped several times to get coffee, use the loo and each day we sample some of the ice cream treats - they do have quite yummy ice cream. Perth temps are more to what I'm used to around the 25C mark.
Tomorrow we are off to visit Heather and Ian, Aussie friends I've been keeping in touch with since my first visit here in 1982. They actually came to Banff a couple of summers ago.
I'm around Perth this week, visiting a few other friends; hope to get over to visit Rottnest Island again (last visit was 1982 also) and then next Sat, I fly off to Melbourne to begin another adventure.

Have been quite surprised at the lack of internet cafe's so that is why I couldn't send emails every day. And the places where there was internet always closed up around 6pm....

I was also going to mention that last Tuesday was Melbourne Cup. The horse race that stops a nation! Believe it - shops are closed and the bars and taverns are full! We were in Coral Bay at the time - and neither of us gave the race any thought until....well the grocery store was open at least and most restaurants.