Day 1: 2 May 2009
We picked up a hire c
ar from the airport and after fighting with car seats and arranging and re-arranging 9 cases to fit in the rear of the 4x4 we were on our way. Destination - Sorrento Beach Resort. Imagine Fawlty Towers and you wont be far out. It would appear that the room rate had more to do with the size and location that style and luxury. Given the length of flights we didnt care, we just wanted our beds. Now as I am sure you will all be aware, time differences do strange things to sleeping patterns. That is, of course, unless your name is Marcus Turner. While Matt and Georgia were playing Nintendo DS and I was at least trying to sleep Master T slept and slept and slept for 14 hours!
ar from the airport and after fighting with car seats and arranging and re-arranging 9 cases to fit in the rear of the 4x4 we were on our way. Destination - Sorrento Beach Resort. Imagine Fawlty Towers and you wont be far out. It would appear that the room rate had more to do with the size and location that style and luxury. Given the length of flights we didnt care, we just wanted our beds. Now as I am sure you will all be aware, time differences do strange things to sleeping patterns. That is, of course, unless your name is Marcus Turner. While Matt and Georgia were playing Nintendo DS and I was at least trying to sleep Master T slept and slept and slept for 14 hours!Next day it was time to investigate the area. It was beautiful! The beaches are incredibly clean (as is pretty much everywhere in Western Australia). The weather was a lovely 28 degrees. Not at all humid. Perfect.
We crossed the road from our hotel to Hillary's Boat Harbour. It's like Freeport with class and fabulous restaurants, a man made beach for kids with a large playground and an area with water slides, trampolines and mini-golf. Matt (and the kids) were in heaven!
On one day we went to the aquarium at Hillary's Boat Harbour. It wasnt the largest we have ever been to but was very good and had a petting area for the kids to touch the skate and a few other fishy varieties. We drove all over wanting to see as much as we could in the 2 weeks we had. Cottesloe Beach, Mindarie, Fremantle, you name it,we went there!
Perth is devided into NOR (north of river) and SOR (south of river).Sorrento is north so we decided to have a trip south. Whilst it is very nice, I didn't care much for SOR,it just didnt feel the same as NOR. Although we did go to Secret Harbour and when the kids were on a park there I spotted a beautiful bird
. I followed it only to find it hanging out with about 200 of it's mates. They were huge parrots! The first wild parrots any of us had ever scene and having some sort of parrot party!
. I followed it only to find it hanging out with about 200 of it's mates. They were huge parrots! The first wild parrots any of us had ever scene and having some sort of parrot party!
We took a trip on a boat to Rottnest Island. Home of the quokkas - they are the cutest little creatures. See above pic. We hired some bikes and Matt drew the short straw and had a trailor on the back of his bike with the kids in. This would normally be fine (recalling holidays at Centre Parcs) however, it was 30 degrees, with no wind and we hadnt anticipated the island being quite so hilly on the 12k ride! He felt a little better when we had a picnic lunch on a small pier on a deserted beach cove with crystle blue water.
Next adventure - Margaret River!
