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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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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.

Jon and Carina got an offer to stay with a woman in Perth who they met in Alice Springs. So we found out where the woman lived and dropped them off. They were planning on staying in Perth for a month or so in order to find work to replenish their seriously depleted savings account. But last we heard from them, they stayed in Perth for a week and didn't find anything so decided to head over to South Australia where they knew work would be waiting for them. With my moving here and there every few years in my life, I have said a fair amount of 'good byes'. You think they would get easier but it is just the opposite. Thank God Carina hated 'good byes' as much as me. So we decided to say 'see ya'; like we were going to meet for coffee next weekend. See you, Jon and Carina. No cream or sugar.

Rain

After dropping Jon and Carina in Perth, Tony and I headed down to see the southwest of Western Australia.

We drove through the lush rolling countryside on the way to Wave Rock. When Eve decides to have her second flat tire. Wench. The drive down was absolutely beautiful. It was raining off and on. I thought it added to the spring beauty but my whining fellow travel mate from the Isle of Sun did not. We saw huge fields of bright yellow rapeseed against lush green rolling hills. I took about a thousand pictures.
Well anyway, Wave Rock is like its name implies: the perfect wave sculpted out of rock. I hung ten. I rock!

After Wave Rock we drove down through more beautiful countryside. It was raining and Tony was complaining. It is obvious to me that he hasn't lived through much rain and, therefore, England must truly be a sunny and temperate climate indeed. I must look into spending my January holiday on the balmy English ...