Thursday, July 31, 2003

For T III read Hulk. Again, although highly stylised (aren't all comic books), a little long, and with no discernable storyline I thought it was much much better than the critics. We are now in Margaret River - a picturesque town situated, unsurprisingly, on the stretch of water that bears its name. It boasts some great viewpoints, a few eateries, and one fantastic internet cafe! The trip here was via a couple of places; our first stop being Busselton, which is famous for it's pier. At 2km long it is one of the longest in Aus and we duly trapsed it's length (and back, obviously) with the wind whipping and the rain lashing our faces. Still it was quite a pleasant experience for no other reason than that there were so few people around and you could really feel the force of the wind and sea. After this we made it to Ngilgi Cave which was found, completely by accident, in 1899. It is about 40m deep and has hundreds or thousands of stalagmites and stagaltites. We descended as far as we could go and had a good look round before the guide turned all the lights off leaving it eerily dark. Thankfully he turned them back on before the long trudge back to civilisation. In total we walked over 2 km and up and down 681 steps (no I didn't count them).

No real plan from here - we;ll probably move on tomorrow - there have been reports of an albine Southern Right whale being born in Albany, so we're hurrying along to get there in time to see it. We called a company doing whale watching there today and they said that they thought the mother and child may shelter in the bay for a few more weeks so we are hopeful we can get there in time. The weather is still shocking - rain and gale-force winds.

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