Monday, December 22, 2008

Perth - Just in time itinerary


As I've said, Perth was a very good trip that we had. One of the thing that makes it wonderful was there's quite a lot of just in time events that happened in Perth.

It was a free and easy self drive trip. The itineray was all planned but with flexibility. On the 2nd day, we visited Penguin Island. We had to take a ferry to cross over to an Island. It was a very small Island. Originally we planned to take the next ferry back to mainland which is 2 hours later (I can't remembered exactly). We were at the other end of the Island when we felt that there's nothing much to explore further. We decided to rush for the ferry which will be leaving in a few minutes. We ran and ran to catch the ferry that was about to leave and luckily we managed to catch it before it leaves and that saved 2 hours of our itinerary.

While in Margaret River, we bought tickets to visit 3 caves and we only had 2 days there. The 3 caves were quite a distant away and it's not near to where we stayed. After visiting the 1st cave, we decided to rush for the 2nd cave before it closed. We were lucky to reach just in time to join the last tour for the 2nd cave despite the fact that we lost our way once a while. There are some visitors who came later and missed the tour and will have to come back again the next day.

The next day, we visited the last cave and proceed to the next town and have more time for other part of the itinerary and don't have to missed things that Joyce has originally planned for.



While in Pemberton, on the way to Albany, we decided to go to another attraction, the tree top walk. Measuring the distant, we are not sure if we can make it in time as we are not very sure what time it closes. Most of the attraction in Perth closes at 5pm. We decided to try anyway without putting much hope to be on time. The past few days, we had been losing our way most of the time while driving. We almost lost our way while driving to tree top walk too... but luckily we were back on track. And again, we were to last visitor to enter Tree Top Walk before it close, we reached there just at the time of closing. Once entering, we can take our time to walk.

Finally, on the last day, almost met with an accident on the road due to other driver's fault. Thank God, I reacted fast enough to avoid it.

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