I'm in Perth since nearly two weeks now. Time is running, as always, even when I do nothing at all. What I have seen of the city so far is very lovely. You could say it was „love at first sight“. Perth may be the most remote big city of the world, but she has definitely charme. It seems one could live a good life here. :-) But no worries, the plan is still to come back to Germany in January.



As Brit was sick for a week and because we tried to sell Freddy and now it's my turn with having a cold, I have not seen very much of Perth. But I love what I have seen so far! Selling Freddy was successfull, by the way! A french backpacker couple wants him and paid a deposit of 1500 Dollars. They will pick him up on Wednesday and bring the rest of our money...

Four weeks after we left Darwin, we end our tour with Freddy in Perth, 13000 kilometers later. We have not seen much of Perth so far because Brit is sick and has to stay in bed for a few days. I play nurse to her at the moment. :-) Today I will hang up our „Freddy 4sale“ ads around the city in hostels and internetcafes. And then we hope that someone will buy Freddy soon and love him as much as we did. Pity we can't take him home... ;-)

Our last stop before Perth was at Pinnacles Desert. Faszinating: Yellow (not red, not white, yellow!) sand and hundreds, no thousands, of erected stones. Many of them really look like oversized penises, no wonder this place is a male „fertility whatever“ to the aboriginals. Many women who have sex around there get pregnant immidiately. Someone told us this story. We preferred not to try that ourselves to proof it right or wrong...





Brit was already sick there (Monday), so we stayed not very long and drove the whole way down to Perth the same day. Which was better for two reasons: In Cervantes (the village next to the Pinnacles) is just nothing to do even if they have the best backpacker hostel I have ever stayed in. So, if Brit is sick, I can't do anything there except getting bored. And: In Perth they have lots of doctors, too. And internet. :-)

On the way from Shark Bay down to The Pinnacles we thought very often things like: „We must have missed a turnoff. This is tuscany.“ Or „We are home! This looks like the Alpenvorland.“ Or „Oh, it is New Zealand, look at all those sheeps!“ It is amazing how the rough red landscape of the outback changes into soft green hills which have a big similarity to what we have @home. Or what I have seen in Italy or NZ. Funny. Does not look like Australia anymore.



We are lucky we drove down south in this time of the year. The more south we come, the more wildflowers can be seen. Lots of them, in all colors. Red, white, yellow, blue, purple, pink... Even if I may repeat myself: Beautiful! :-)