Well, here we are, back in Perth at the end of our 6-month adventure! All that remains is to fly home, we leave tomorrow and arrive back at Heathrow at some ungodly hour on Sunday morning. What a time we've had! We must admit, when we set out on that dark November day, it all seemed rather daunting but we have had a great time, ready to come home but, in a way, rather sorry it's all over. Special thanks to David, Nicola & Stuart for kicking us out of the country & keeping an eye on the flat, car and post while we were off enjoying ourselves. And we thought Australia would be an anti-climax after New Zealand! It has produced real highlights of our trip & there is much we'd like to come back and do. Especially, we will remember the Sydney Bridge Climb, Cradle Mountain & the Western Wilderness in Tasmania, Melbourne city, Fraser Island, Uluru sunset & Kings Canyon, the Ningaloo Reef & bush camping in WA. The sheer variety of animal and birdlife has continued to delight us and we have turned into real wildlife spotters. Accommodation has been of more a variable quality than in NZ but when good, is very good - the Youth Hostel in Halls Gap, Victoria is probably one of the best places we have ever stayed in. We have driven around 13,000km in this vast country, to say nothing of the air miles! As you would expect we have sampled the food and drink extensively, developing a taste for Bundaberg rum mixers and extra-dry beer (but why do they serve it SO cold!). Kangaroo and emu have been on our dinner plate & enjoyed. We've not subjected you to many photos of us on the blog, but the one above was taken in Cape Range while we watched the sunset - very appropriate as the sun sets on this trip.Thank you for following our blog & our whitterings; we hope you have enjoyed them. We hope to resume some travels at some point, if not for so long a period, and will no doubt feel moved to take up the keyboard again. In the meantime we will rest the blog & see you all back home!!
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