A Celebration Of Australia (And Beer)

Being English, in the true spirit of the day I wanted to go and oppress some Aborigines, steal some land, destroy some ancient culture and generally spread disease and hardship but no one else seemed up for that so instead we filled three Falcons with backpackers and headed back down to Blackwall Reach to throw ourselves off the cliffs again.

Woo Hoooooooo!!

At This Point He Was Demanding Vodka

Rainbow Lodge @ Blackwall Reach

Fraser's Alternative To Cliff Jumping

Meh. Maybe next year I'll reclaim Uluru or something.

We had an awesome time anyway, after we finished at the cliffs we headed down to the beach before deciding it was Too Hot (no, I never thought those words would leave my mouth either) so we headed back to Rainbow Lodge before the sun fried our tender European flesh to an unrecognisable crisp for frequent cold showers and goon. And as we'd been cliff jumping it meant Italian style mussels for tea again. Fuck yeah.

Eoin Gets To Shower With Two Lesbians

It's illegal for just anybody to buy fireworks over here (unless you live in Canberra where you can also buy hardcore porn but I guess there needs to be some kind of incentive to live there) which means that 99% of Australian phone boxes are still in one piece and no one knows how far a cat goes with a rocket tied to its tail. It also means I missed out on Bonfire Night and the local attempts at New Years fireworks were piss poor. I've been pyrotechnically deprived.

Oooooooooohh.....

....Aahhhhhhhhhhh

Thank the god of all that is shiny, slightly dangerous and smells faintly of gunpowder and burnt flesh for the Australia Day 2007 Perth Skyworks. In the absence of a hot bird I curled up with Eoin on the foreshore to watch the display where we also had a fantastic view of the south bank which they managed to set on fire.

Pretty blue flashy lights and fireworks going off in directions they're not meant to.

All we needed was a hoard of 10 year olds standing outside the shop trying to get people to buy rockets for them to put through the neighbour's letter box and it would have been just like home.

written by  Koala Bear on January 28, 2007 from Perth, Australia
from the travel blog: Sod Off Great Big Mission Round Oz
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