My trip to Perth, Western Australia.

JClarke · 09-02-2007, 02:34 AM

I am aware of this, as it is public so extreme caution

This thread to my thought, it would be interesting, for a change, for you to be curious how my holiday went, so I will post my story here and there while I am heading to Perth tomorow night. Pictures will be added later.

I will be updating this thread in my HipTop 3 (sidekick 3) do bear with me peeps

Trip = 3rd September to 12th September (AEST)

Liebling:-))) · 09-02-2007, 02:49 AM

wow, I would love to hear update of your trip to Perth...

I have been went to Victoria, Melborne, Island of Phillips - Great Ocean - to South of New Wales. I love it... It´s unforgetable holiday...

JClarke · 09-02-2007, 05:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Liebling:-)))

wow, I would love to hear update of your trip to Perth...

I have been went to Victoria, Melborne, Island of Phillips - Great Ocean - to South of New Wales. I love it... It´s unforgetable holiday...

That's good. Keep an eye on this thread, I will be updating it in two days time.

Koala · 09-02-2007, 05:52 AM

Do you want me to wave a very big flag just in case your plane couldn't find Perth?

Anyway, for the weather we are expecting, it gonna be a mixture, some fine days and some cloudy or rain days. This is what are expecting during the week from weatherzone.

Monday - Sunny 27 Celsius
Tuesday - Showers easing 19 C
Wednesday - Mostly cloudy 17 C
Thursday - Cloud increasing 20 C
Friday - Showers 17 C
Saturday - Clearing shower 18 C

Have fun in Perth and hope you like it.

JClarke · 09-02-2007, 06:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Koala

Do you want me to wave a very big flag just in case your plane couldn't find Perth?

That would be great

Quote:

Anyway, for the weather we are expecting, it gonna be a mixture, some fine days and some cloudy or rain days. This is what are expecting during the week from weatherzone.

Monday - Sunny 27 Celsius
Tuesday - Showers easing 19 C
Wednesday - Mostly cloudy 17 C
Thursday - Cloud increasing 20 C
Friday - Showers 17 C
Saturday - Clearing shower 18 C

Have fun in Perth and hope you like it.

Thanks for the weather details (I was informed by my cousin with the weather though), despite with the rain, I'll survive while enjoying the holiday there.

dreamsfloatjoe · 09-02-2007, 11:04 AM

Enjoy your journey Mr JC.

farewell65 · 09-02-2007, 12:24 PM

Awesome, have fun over there

JClarke · 09-02-2007, 07:13 PM

Hello all,

Today is the day, where I am going to spend my boring day at work which is the usual same thing, (including surfing on alldeaf.com all day

) but finally, right after work, I will head off to the International Airport, which is just right next to where I work! So lucky enough, my mother dropped me off, and I strolled with my thick big footy bag all the way to the first floor of my office

but I made it

Gee, it is spring season here, and it is very warm today

I will be posting more, so stay tuned, friends!

Dixie · 09-03-2007, 04:24 PM

hehe -can't wait for the holiday blogs to begin - I have a couple of friends in Perth, but I guess this week it'll be three!

JClarke · 09-03-2007, 06:49 PM

Now, it is 6:40am, perth time here, two hours behind of my actual hometown time which is actually 840am.

After a comfortable flight, which took 5 hours, I was impressed on the Qantas airline safety feature, which you all know, was presented on TV while staff do their usual procedure, the TV was subtitled so I was happy to watch and then when the plane finally took off, it has a welcome message, yet cpationed too. Also the local news. Only despite the movies does not caption though.

Anyway, I had chicken curry for dinner, it was good. Later afterwards, I was stil hungry so I thought I'd just have some potato chips, I went to get my bad, to mu surprise, the chip packet was, um, hard to describe, puffed up as the packet looked so fat....due to air pressure and I didn't dare to open it,

I arrived at the airport at 1015pm, my cousin and my aunt picked me up.

T'all good

I will update, Part 2, tonight.

Stay tuned!

Phillips · 09-03-2007, 07:01 PM

Awesome!! Looking forward Part 2

JClarke · 09-04-2007, 10:06 AM

I will upate part 2 tomorrow morning, first thing as I'm currently very tired. Sorry for the inconvience

Freaky Cat · 09-04-2007, 10:22 AM

aww ok.. hope u r taking it easy.. smile! have fun there!

JClarke · 09-04-2007, 06:48 PM

Sorry for the delay, last night, I was so tired so could not bother to type the blog but here it is!

Day 1 - Perth City

In the morning since I got up and had breakfast, my cousin and I went to drop her little boys ( my 2nd cousins) to school/daycare and my cousin took me to kings park, it was beautiful and the grass was soooo green despite at my hometown most grasses are brownish due to drought

but in a long time, I have not seen greeeeeen grass,

I took some pictures but I hopefully to post them up later today, if I can!

At the park, they have marellvous view of the city and the swan river. Pretty.

Then we went into thre city, it was very striaghtforward city, you know, clean and tidy city, for example, sydney city has crooked roads, they are not striaght but perth city is very striaght and clean.....simple and easy to get around so I walked around between murray st and hay st mall, where there so many shops/stores etc bought a few things, and I was looking for a new camera (didn't buy it yet). it was good. Weather was warm, cloudy took over the blue skies later in the day and the rain has its switch when they poured.

We all (including the boys) went to get their father from the airport and had dinner at my cousins place with the boys father. It was good. I watched "the man of the year" dvd and it was boring.

That is all for the day. I am going to a tour of "frementle prison" today so stay tuned for #2 blog, Part I!

LakeTahoe · 09-04-2007, 07:18 PM

Sound like you enjoyed your quiet day!

Hope you able to find new camera to buy. I wanted a new one also but money is not permit at this moment. Dang! HA!

Quote:

Originally Posted by jclarke

Sorry for the delay, last night, I was so tired so could not bother to type the blog but here it is!

Day 1 - Perth City

In the morning since I got up and had breakfast, my cousin and I went to drop her little boys ( my 2nd cousins) to school/daycare and my cousin took me to kings park, it was beautiful and the grass was soooo green despite at my hometown most grasses are brownish due to drought

but in a long time, I have not seen greeeeeen grass,

I took some pictures but I hopefully to post them up later today, if I can!

At the park, they have marellvous view of the city and the swan river. Pretty.

Then we went into thre city, it was very striaghtforward city, you know, clean and tidy city, for example, sydney city has crooked roads, they are not striaght but perth city is very striaght and clean.....simple and easy to get around so I walked around between murray st and hay st mall, where there so many shops/stores etc bought a few things, and I was looking for a new camera (didn't buy it yet). it was good. Weather was warm, cloudy took over the blue skies later in the day and the rain has its switch when they poured.

We all (including the boys) went to get their father from the airport and had dinner at my cousins place with the boys father. It was good. I watched "the man of the year" dvd and it was boring.

That is all for the day. I am going to a tour of "frementle prison" today so stay tuned for #2 blog, Part I!

JClarke · 09-04-2007, 07:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LakeTahoe

Sound like you enjoyed your quiet day!

Hope you able to find new camera to buy. I wanted a new one also but money is not permit at this moment. Dang! HA!

Digital cameras are so damn expensive but would love to have one though. Hopefully today or tomorrow

LakeTahoe · 09-04-2007, 07:41 PM

I got mine for 500 but got it for free. Long story!

You could look at the ADs (in newspaper or online) and check the prices. I have Kodak and LOVES IT! I wanted Cannon Rebel but that's about 800 to 1K!!! So I gotta to save it up!! LOL!

Quote:

Originally Posted by jclarke

Digital cameras are so damn expensive but would love to have one though. Hopefully today or tomorrow

JClarke · 09-05-2007, 07:08 AM

Finally, what a day, been a busy day today, I went to 'Frementle Prison' this morning and it was interesting, my cousin interpreted the tour for me, how generous of her.

Frementle Prison was orginially closed in November 1991, due to a big bad riot and it closed so the prison has been housin at least 600 - 650 convicts spanning since the late 1880's until 91 prior to the closure. Here is some piccies below of the frementle prison -

This is the picture of the building where all the convicts are housed.

This is one of the cell rooms, fully painted by a horrible murderer who has sepcial permission to let him paint the room, which painting makes him calm down, all sort of a medicication.. the room looked so beautiful, see the piccy above.

Last one of the frementle prison pictures

This is how small the cell looked like back in the 1920's to 1940s. really tiny but over many years, the rooms has expanded rapidly.

So after that my cousin has to head to work for a hour due to a meeting so I went to the city, fortuantely I purchased a beautiful camera for only $299 which is an excellent bargain! 7.1 Megapixels with 10X zoom, purchased it at Target in the city. See piccy below -

After that, I went to Western Australia Deaf Society, when my cousin took me there, wow, it is a big community group and there was over many 50 + senoirs in the big room chatting.. I met Dawn Harrison one of the staff, she's lovely, she showed me the centre... interesting.. we talked while my cousin who was the former staff there caught up with the peeps she once knew.

It has been a busy day!

Photos below from the first day! Enjoy!

Me, at Kings Park, City of Perth is righht behind me!

Definitely, Kings Park ....beautiful!

And last but not the least.. Enjoy drooling over these!!!!

Stay tuned for Blog #3!

Phillips · 09-05-2007, 08:18 AM

Cool!!!

LakeTahoe · 09-05-2007, 09:02 AM

WOW! What a great day and you sure enjoyed it! CONGRAT on new camera!

Enjoy it! I didn't know they have Target in Australia!!!!

JClarke · 09-05-2007, 07:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LakeTahoe

WOW! What a great day and you sure enjoyed it! CONGRAT on new camera!

Enjoy it! I didn't know they have Target in Australia!!!!

Yeah, we do have target stores in australia, do you have them in USA, yes? The camera I bought yesterday is very beautiful, doing great.

Stay tuned for blog #3 later tonight!

LakeTahoe · 09-05-2007, 07:26 PM

Yes we have Target all over USA

Look forward to read your blog #3!

Quote:

Originally Posted by jclarke

Yeah, we do have target stores in australia, do you have them in USA, yes? The camera I bought yesterday is very beautiful, doing great.

Stay tuned for blog #3 later tonight!

JClarke · 09-06-2007, 09:48 AM

Hello all,

I am tired right now, but I am going to do my best to blog today's post. Today is Thursday, and my cousin has to go to work, so I went to Kings Park again and took some photos, yes, you guessed it, been playing with the camera since I purchased it, it has been an bueaty. Then I walked to the City, went to Swan bell tower, bought a postcard of "Perth City" near that area for 50c. Went to the cinemas, and bought a ticket for 1:00pm showing of "Die Hard 4.0".

Went to grab some lunch at Subway, yum and went for a walk, stopped by at the post office to pay my parking fines (3 parking fines back at home, two from work and one from Uni = $216 all together) and posted some things for a friend in America. And it was time to head back to the Cinemas, I watched 'Die Hard 4' - it was great. Will get it on DVD so I can watch it with Captions, and also will watch something on with captions in the city tomorrow.

Afterwards, went to the factory outlet store called 'Harbour Town" it was a nice big stores centre, but mostly of it was preparing to close so went and bought some pastry and some Pepsi......boring, I know.

Went back to Kings Park, snapped some photos in the afternoon, with my camera, and it looked so much better, will post pictures later in the week.

Later, this evening, my cousin and her boys and I went to "Little Creatures" restuarant with my uncle and my cousin (*my other cousin's sister) and it was nice, I had some sort of a pizza, yum.

That is all for today, the little boys gone crazy and hyper on the way home, they are in bed now.

What a day.

Stay tuned for tomrorow's blog!

Night, all!

Koala · 09-06-2007, 11:15 AM

Sound like you are getting about a bit in Perth. Yep, Kings Park have a very nice view of the city. If you go there at night, it is very nice with all the lights on everywhere. It is worth it.
That's good you went to the Bell tower. You must have seen the big blue and yellow tents nearby. That is Cirque Du Soleil is on there showing 'Varekai'. Hubby and I will go there in a few weeks time to see it. Did you see the black swans swimming about in the river? Black swan is the state's national emblem.
A movie you will see with captions on tomorrow night is 'The Bourne Ultimatum'. My hubby and I will go and see that on Sunday afternoon. I thought it was on last weekend but the deaf club sent out a list of movies with wrong date on it. I checked online from Media Access Aust for right date to make sure.
That good that you went to WADS and meet some people there. Yes I agree with you about Dawn and she is a lovely kind lady. I have known her for a very long time since when we were young from the Deaf school.
There is a nice place where you can go to. Ask your cousin to take you to the Hillary Boat harbour. It is nice to go for lunch there. It is always busy there. I am sure you will like it.
Anyway, enjoy your stay and have fun touring in Perth.

09-02-2007, 02:34 AM	#1 (permalink)
JClarke AD addict Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Down Under Posts: 14,328 Blog Entries: 4	My trip to Perth, Western Australia. I am aware of this, as it is public so extreme caution This thread to my thought, it would be interesting, for a change, for you to be curious how my holiday went, so I will post my story here and there while I am heading to Perth tomorow night. Pictures will be added later. I will be updating this thread in my HipTop 3 (sidekick 3) do bear with me peeps Trip = 3rd September to 12th September (AEST) __________________

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Liebling:-))) My 3 darling princesses Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Germany Posts: 27,054	wow, I would love to hear update of your trip to Perth... I have been went to Victoria, Melborne, Island of Phillips - Great Ocean - to South of New Wales. I love it... It´s unforgetable holiday... __________________

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Koala Cuddly bear Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Australia Posts: 4,427	Do you want me to wave a very big flag just in case your plane couldn't find Perth? Anyway, for the weather we are expecting, it gonna be a mixture, some fine days and some cloudy or rain days. This is what are expecting during the week from weatherzone. Monday - Sunny 27 Celsius Tuesday - Showers easing 19 C Wednesday - Mostly cloudy 17 C Thursday - Cloud increasing 20 C Friday - Showers 17 C Saturday - Clearing shower 18 C Have fun in Perth and hope you like it. __________________

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JClarke AD addict Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Down Under Posts: 14,328 Blog Entries: 4	#2 blog - Day 1, Part I Now, it is 6:40am, perth time here, two hours behind of my actual hometown time which is actually 840am. After a comfortable flight, which took 5 hours, I was impressed on the Qantas airline safety feature, which you all know, was presented on TV while staff do their usual procedure, the TV was subtitled so I was happy to watch and then when the plane finally took off, it has a welcome message, yet cpationed too. Also the local news. Only despite the movies does not caption though. Anyway, I had chicken curry for dinner, it was good. Later afterwards, I was stil hungry so I thought I'd just have some potato chips, I went to get my bad, to mu surprise, the chip packet was, um, hard to describe, puffed up as the packet looked so fat....due to air pressure and I didn't dare to open it, I arrived at the airport at 1015pm, my cousin and my aunt picked me up. T'all good I will update, Part 2, tonight. Stay tuned! __________________

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Freaky Cat My cat Oreo :) Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: ArKaNsAs Posts: 10,184	aww ok.. hope u r taking it easy.. smile! have fun there!

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JClarke AD addict Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Down Under Posts: 14,328 Blog Entries: 4	#1 blog, Part II Sorry for the delay, last night, I was so tired so could not bother to type the blog but here it is! Day 1 - Perth City In the morning since I got up and had breakfast, my cousin and I went to drop her little boys ( my 2nd cousins) to school/daycare and my cousin took me to kings park, it was beautiful and the grass was soooo green despite at my hometown most grasses are brownish due to drought but in a long time, I have not seen greeeeeen grass, I took some pictures but I hopefully to post them up later today, if I can! At the park, they have marellvous view of the city and the swan river. Pretty. Then we went into thre city, it was very striaghtforward city, you know, clean and tidy city, for example, sydney city has crooked roads, they are not striaght but perth city is very striaght and clean.....simple and easy to get around so I walked around between murray st and hay st mall, where there so many shops/stores etc bought a few things, and I was looking for a new camera (didn't buy it yet). it was good. Weather was warm, cloudy took over the blue skies later in the day and the rain has its switch when they poured. We all (including the boys) went to get their father from the airport and had dinner at my cousins place with the boys father. It was good. I watched "the man of the year" dvd and it was boring. That is all for the day. I am going to a tour of "frementle prison" today so stay tuned for #2 blog, Part I! __________________

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JClarke AD addict Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Down Under Posts: 14,328 Blog Entries: 4	#2 Blog Part II Finally, what a day, been a busy day today, I went to 'Frementle Prison' this morning and it was interesting, my cousin interpreted the tour for me, how generous of her. Frementle Prison was orginially closed in November 1991, due to a big bad riot and it closed so the prison has been housin at least 600 - 650 convicts spanning since the late 1880's until 91 prior to the closure. Here is some piccies below of the frementle prison - This is the picture of the building where all the convicts are housed. This is one of the cell rooms, fully painted by a horrible murderer who has sepcial permission to let him paint the room, which painting makes him calm down, all sort of a medicication.. the room looked so beautiful, see the piccy above. Last one of the frementle prison pictures This is how small the cell looked like back in the 1920's to 1940s. really tiny but over many years, the rooms has expanded rapidly. So after that my cousin has to head to work for a hour due to a meeting so I went to the city, fortuantely I purchased a beautiful camera for only $299 which is an excellent bargain! 7.1 Megapixels with 10X zoom, purchased it at Target in the city. See piccy below - After that, I went to Western Australia Deaf Society, when my cousin took me there, wow, it is a big community group and there was over many 50 + senoirs in the big room chatting.. I met Dawn Harrison one of the staff, she's lovely, she showed me the centre... interesting.. we talked while my cousin who was the former staff there caught up with the peeps she once knew. It has been a busy day! Photos below from the first day! Enjoy! Me, at Kings Park, City of Perth is righht behind me! Definitely, Kings Park ....beautiful! And last but not the least.. Enjoy drooling over these!!!! Stay tuned for Blog #3! __________________

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JClarke AD addict Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Down Under Posts: 14,328 Blog Entries: 4	Blog #3 Part I Hello all, I am tired right now, but I am going to do my best to blog today's post. Today is Thursday, and my cousin has to go to work, so I went to Kings Park again and took some photos, yes, you guessed it, been playing with the camera since I purchased it, it has been an bueaty. Then I walked to the City, went to Swan bell tower, bought a postcard of "Perth City" near that area for 50c. Went to the cinemas, and bought a ticket for 1:00pm showing of "Die Hard 4.0". Went to grab some lunch at Subway, yum and went for a walk, stopped by at the post office to pay my parking fines (3 parking fines back at home, two from work and one from Uni = $216 all together) and posted some things for a friend in America. And it was time to head back to the Cinemas, I watched 'Die Hard 4' - it was great. Will get it on DVD so I can watch it with Captions, and also will watch something on with captions in the city tomorrow. Afterwards, went to the factory outlet store called 'Harbour Town" it was a nice big stores centre, but mostly of it was preparing to close so went and bought some pastry and some Pepsi......boring, I know. Went back to Kings Park, snapped some photos in the afternoon, with my camera, and it looked so much better, will post pictures later in the week. Later, this evening, my cousin and her boys and I went to "Little Creatures" restuarant with my uncle and my cousin (*my other cousin's sister) and it was nice, I had some sort of a pizza, yum. That is all for today, the little boys gone crazy and hyper on the way home, they are in bed now. What a day. Stay tuned for tomrorow's blog! Night, all! __________________

09-06-2007, 11:15 AM	#24 (permalink)
Koala Cuddly bear Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Australia Posts: 4,427	Sound like you are getting about a bit in Perth. Yep, Kings Park have a very nice view of the city. If you go there at night, it is very nice with all the lights on everywhere. It is worth it. That's good you went to the Bell tower. You must have seen the big blue and yellow tents nearby. That is Cirque Du Soleil is on there showing 'Varekai'. Hubby and I will go there in a few weeks time to see it. Did you see the black swans swimming about in the river? Black swan is the state's national emblem. A movie you will see with captions on tomorrow night is 'The Bourne Ultimatum'. My hubby and I will go and see that on Sunday afternoon. I thought it was on last weekend but the deaf club sent out a list of movies with wrong date on it. I checked online from Media Access Aust for right date to make sure. That good that you went to WADS and meet some people there. Yes I agree with you about Dawn and she is a lovely kind lady. I have known her for a very long time since when we were young from the Deaf school. There is a nice place where you can go to. Ask your cousin to take you to the Hillary Boat harbour. It is nice to go for lunch there. It is always busy there. I am sure you will like it. Anyway, enjoy your stay and have fun touring in Perth. __________________