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Well we made it to Perth on rainy day. And my traveling companions from the Land of Sunshine (i.e. England, for the atmospherically challenged) were complaining.
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Farewell to Yesterday's Rain

Tctraynor
2005-11-04 21:46:00

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seaside.

Anyway. There are supposed to be abundant wildflowers in spring but I think you have to wait more towards the end of September. But I did see quite a few anywho. We made our way down to Albany to do some whale watching.

Albany is a beautiful resort town on the Southern Ocean (I never knew there was a Southern Ocean). The only problem was that it was raining again and Tony was shaking his fists at the skies. And it rained some more, and then started pouring in buckets and Tony just started whimpering. I was telling Tony to just enjoy what God gives you - see the beauty in the rain. He told me to 'eff off'. Well, I think Tony pissed God off big time because then the wind started to pick up and up and up. I think we had gusts up to 100km an hour, which is like 60 miles/hour. It could have easily been more because my tent was being bent flat at times (no joking). Tony, since he was on God's shite-list, had his tent poles snapped, then he repaired them, then they snapped again and he repaired them again, then for good measure (God has a great sense of humor) his tent was uprooted a few times. I told him to look on the bright side of life and be grateful it wasn't blown into the sea. I think he wanted to hit me by this time.

However, God wasn't through with us just yet. The torrential rain then turned into hail. Yup, hail. I was loving the extreme weather but Tony...oh, you can guess the rest.

We did see a whale right from the beach in Albany. It was a Southern Right Whale. It got the name 'right' because back in the whaling days, it was the 'right' whale to catch because of its ease of slaughter.

Since the weather wasn't good for whale watching in Albany, we thought we would try Augusta. On the way we stopped at the Valley of the Giants.

These are Australia's version of the Redwood Forest in California. They are equally as impressive. ...