Sunday, April 18, 2010

Writing this from Busselton, in the Southwest corner of Western AU.  Arrived on Saturday night, and we have a week at a friend's timeshare (thanks again Nola.)  The facilities are very nice, and just a short walk down a cobblestone path to the beach.  We brought our bikes along - best purchase we've made since we got here was to buy a bike rack for the car, and the bike path here goes on for miles along the beach.  We rode to the jetty today for breakfast, and the weather was perfect, about 75 degrees.

Before leaving Perth we bought a super bright torch (flashlight) to go night spotting for nocturnal animals.  We went out tonight on a walk that supposedly has a large number of endangered ring-tailed possums (very different from our possums and very cute) but we didn't see a one.  All we saw were several gigantic spiders, with webs stretching all the way across the path, and one sleepy old kangaroo that we woke up with our light.  We might try again before we leave here, since the place is only a few minutes away from the timeshare.  But first we need to get a back-up torch in case the batteries die in the good one, since the forest is totally black and we'd no doubt run into one of the spider webs if we were stumbling around in the dark.  I have to admit, the spiders are pretty spooky.