Sunday, December 30, 2007
HEY GUYS!!
In such a good mood now~Yesterday we just came back from our one week holiday retreat down at Yallingup (only 3 hrs from perth!) and it was like the BEST holiday EVER!!!
LIKE OMG it was so super fantastic I can't describe it.I guess everything was just perfect down there.. We had awesome weather throughout-everyday was HOTHOTHOT (hehe on fire) all in the mid 30s degrees and even reaching 44/45 degrees on boxing day!
We went to the beach EVERYDAY and even twice or thrice a couple times.Super.
Then we stayed at this villa which was right in front of the beach!5 mins walk down and you're in the ocean baby!We had a hammock and deckchairs on the "balcony verandah area" which looked out to the beach and in the afternoon we can just sit there and fall asleep!
Oh man I miss that place already...Anyway all of us "achieved something" outta this trip,which made it so damn awesome.
We went for surfing lessons 3 days and that was such an experience.I mean,I NEVER IMAGINED US STANDING ON SURFBOARDS AND RIDING THE WAVES!!! We had such a ball of a time and lol,I couldn't stop thinking about it.
Like how to catch a wave,trying to turn and ride ACROSS the wave etc. Ahhh it was just SO SO SO satisfying when I surfed.It's like a WOW I can finally "play" with the waves instead of just swimming and splashing around..
Well besides that,we were also lucky to have met some neighbours there who were pro scuba divers and stuff.They taught my dad and bro how and where to catch abalones and those guys jumped straight into it.
Went to get a licence,spent a shit load of money on equipment and caught like 200 over small abalones in total from the daily morning trips(as in 7am in the morning in the freezing water!) Uurgh I'm not a big fan of abalone and already am sick of it.
Haha and it's not just abalone.Mum said we'll be eating fish every meal for the next week or two thanks to all the fishes we caught during this trip and the jurien bay trip.HELP?!
And lastly,we went snorkelling at this rocky area next to the beach!It's like a small enclosed pool shielded away from the violent waves by the rocks.Don't look like much from the surface but underwater it's AWESOME!
We saw schools of fishes big small medium etc, sea snails, strange spongey corals and other weird stuff.And hehe if you imagine yourself as a fish, it really is pretty cool!
In love with this place I think.Haha we can't get enough of it so we're going back again for term 1's holiday next year.For another week too!! Just hoping that it won't turn too cold or else we can't do anything.
And with that holiday,we'll be getting into more snorkelling!We checked out Busselton Jetty on the way home yesterday and it looked good to us.It's 2km long a jetty and there's like HEAPS of corals and fishes underneath on the pylons especially.
YES so looking forward to that!
It seems like as if we've gotten over all the wineries, animals, sightseeing, landscape thingos(BORING BORING) and we're moving on to water activities!FINALLY!!!Hehe wanna find more good locations like Yallingup.Then maybe in the future it'll be visits to Exmouth, Ningaloo Reef, Great Barrier Reef, Gold Coast etc. HOW EXCITING!!!!!!
Oh yay mum just uploaded photos from the camera.Copy from her...
Ok here's photos from the Yallingup trip!
Front view from the villa!Grass, hills, ocean all in 1.
Back of villa where the main door is.More greeen.
Then here's our first day at Yallingup.Just taking a walk on the huge beach.
Out at the balcony.RELAXX
Can see some equipment on the table and the ocean view outside?
The guys at work.Abalones
I wouldn't say it's fun,that's why I'm not involved:D
LOOK!The live abalone in front is twisting itself out from its shell!
And then,the lovely sunset.From the back of our villa
Another sunset at the beach.High tide at night.
This photo you can't miss.SEE:THE ABALONE IS AS BIG AS OUR FACE! Those scuba divers went deep down to catch them.
Small sample ones given by them:)
Later..Here's mum's way of cooking them
Kangeroo!They shit alot on the grass around our villa
HAHA don't be fooled.My brother didn't catch that!YES!!That's about it.
Here's a couple of photos from the Jurien Bay trip at the start of dec.
It was all about fishing....
Dad and Ben-the ppl in charge of baits!HEHE
Fisher-family
That's the jetty.Blah.
Oh oh!This is the seal that came right up to the jetty!
Ahh,it's so super cute!We fed it some fishies!:)
Okie that's abt it for now.If I have the chance,will upload some photos of snorkelling!Cos tmr will be going to Harbour Town!SHOPPING!
HAPPY NEW YEAR GUYS.
amanDa @ 6:32 PM
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