Freo

Took a well needed break or refuge if you will to Fremantle. About an hour from where I live. To be honest I had a big fight with Trav and I don't take undeserved shit...from anyone. So I left.
City life come at me!!

My friend Samantha came and got me late yesterday evening. 

And today I've spent most day roaming the streets of Freo. And chilling at Sams work. "Sundancer hostel". It's big with dormitory from 1 bedroom to 10 beds $80-$29/night. But it's central situated and plenty of pubs to keep you busy. Pool and BBQ area in the back. 

So if you ever find yourself backpacking in WA and wanna hang around perth this is a good spot. Great actually. You meet so many different people from all over. Great networking.

I happen to eat a shitty chicken kebab just a few hours ago and I don't feel well now. It's like my tummy wants to jump out of my body. I pray I won't get mud butt. I need a lay down but I don't see that happening anytime soon. I'm doomed to pay for my stupidity. My moment of weakness. I was starving and it was convenient at the time. 

What bugs me is that just a few minutes after I got the damn thing I found great restaurants. Heaps of them. And I'm still kicking myself for it. Sacramento Idiota!!

After Sammy stopped work we went to the corner pub to meet up with her friend Ash. An Irish chick. There are heaps of Poms and Irish people in Australia for some reason. I guess the English people love Aussies...

9504 hours and it still feels like a kick in the face, actually a kick in the face doesn't quite cut it.... They say we can repress our memories. I wonder if we are just keeping them safe somewhere because no matter how painful they are, they are our most powerful and precious possessions. They made us who we are. Good or bad. Some things I remember as if was yesterday and it all feels like one long inescapable moment. 
Have you ever felt like you are Falling into the ocean but still swim for shore....

Best guy ever...GLITTER LOVE!!!!

The weekend...

Whoohoo...Saturday I left the prison.
And the weather was nice too. Destination Yanchep national park. I was finally going to see some Roo's and koala 's.
Score!!!

I wore the wrong set of clothes for this escapade. Noted for next time. It was lovely to see the animals up close.

Cute as

A young Roo chillin in the shadow

Yup....that is me!!

Wilderness...come at me

We also stopped at a lagoon. Apparently there are heaps of great whites swimming around this area. You will not see me swimming there anytime soon. It was stunning but nope not ever. It would of been awesome to have seen a shark tho. It was quite windy so the water was choppy. Still people surfed and swam. What idiots...

We went to a restaurant called "The blue duck" to have lunch. The seating was great, overlooking the ocean and I was sitting in the sun too. Even though it was windy it was nice. Got the menu and I quickly established that I ate very few things they offered. That is not the restaurants fault tho. I decided to try the Malaysian chicken with rice. What could possibly go wrong with that?? 

I'll tell you what went wrong. First of all they served undercooked rice!! WHAT?!?! 

And then they serve chicken tenderloins. The most disgusting part of the chicken. Seriously blue duck?!! You wanna be a high end restaurant with prices like that and you serve me THAT?! 

Nah...you will be referred to here on forth as "the blue fuck" cuz you deserve no better name. Oh yeah, we got no discounts or apology or anything. They just took back the food we barely touched and said they'd tell the chef. 

So yeah blue fuck in Cottesloe, Perth, WA shame upon you for all eternity!!

Lagoon protected by a large reef. Keeps the sharks out..hopefully

Shark watch

An Idiot

View from the blue fuck

 Sunday we drove down south to gracetown and Margret's river. I love going for drives. I got to see the countryside. Hours and hours of straight road. Saw cows and horses and sheep. I wish Swedish animals had this much space to roam around in. Made me happy to see. I might even try some beef here because of it. Free ranged beef. We'll see. Passed a few wineries too. Next time we'll leave earlier and stop by and get some bottles. It's supposed to be cheaper to get it from the producers first hand. 

It was first Advent Sunday too. So it was nice to make it a special day even if they don't celebrate it here. I looked on Facebook later that night and saw the pictures people posted. That made me miss the coziness of a Swedish Christmas advent. It's really special. 

Anyway, it took a while to get to Gracetown. Tiny town by the water. There has been shark attacks there in the past. And I assure you I would not ever go into that water. I've been told so many horror stories im freaking out thinking about swimming. I'll dip my bum that's about it. I'm sure it's not as bad as it sounds. Urban legends. But I'd rather be safe than sorry. 

On our way to Gracetown and Margret's river

Middle town name...WTF???

Gracetown-sleepiest town so far

Gracetown...home of the great white sharks

Margret's river

Yes...I did go in the river

It was very cold, but the beauty made up for it

They have the most strange names here. It's Aboriginal names they have kept. Which is great. It's their country that the pommies invaded and put convicts on a long time ago. ( how weird is it that Aussies beat the English in every sport the compete in??)
But I've been taught that if it ends with "up" it means it's water close by. As where I live. Joondalup, it's a lake here. A big ass lake. Apparently it's snake infested so you can't swim there but that's ok. 

I tried to read the names aloud as we passed the road signs. I couldn't do it. So hard. A fun game maybe if you find yourself backpacking through Australia at one point in your life. Go for it!!!

Thank you Convict!! I had a great weekend. 
I really apreciate it.