Perth Trip Day 2 & 3

Day 2: Rottnest Island

The main activity to do at Rottnest Island besides sight seeing and taking pictures is cycling. Tourists usually rent bikes and tour around the whole island. Since I can't cycle, I bought a whole day ticket for the bus ride...the bus goes around the island (except Western End) and stops and certain areas eg. bays and beaches. Yu Wan accompanied me for the day. We walked at certain places, hopped on the bus to the areas that we wanted to go, then hopped off and walked again...we're lucky that it's a fine day, not too hot and not too cold =)

Welcome to Rottnest Island =)

At Parker Point...see the sea waters in two colours

Nice view



Another nice one...breathtaking



Lighthouse


We saw a few of these marsupials called quokka



Walking, walking...

This tree is called Wind Sculpture...it's green on one side and grey on the other side


Nice beach colours



Saw this big bird too, at shallow water!

Rottnest Island is 30 minutes ferry ride from Fremantle. To get to Fremantle, we took an hour bus ride from the bus stop near Curtin Uni...by the time we reached Bryan's house, we were all exhausted...but lucky that we have people preparing dinner for us =)

The lovely dinner - Sweet and sour chicken, ABC soup, vege, taufu, luncheon meat fried with egg, fish with bean curd sauce, spaghetti with carbonara sauce...and rice too

Day 3: Swan Valley


Swan Valley - wineries, chocolate factory, honey farm etc

We rented a car and Ryan was our driver for the day (again)!

Rows of grape trees



Green grapes...not ripe yet




Wine tasting...we went wine tasting at 3 or 4 wineries..got a bit dizzy at the 2nd winery, luckily we went to chocolate factory after that


The largest winery at the region - Sandalford



They even have cute stuff to hold wines



Jump high!



Next stop: Margeret River Chocolate Factory



Their chocolate selection...



More chocolates...



We had a nice warm chocolate drink there too =)



Lunch shared with Ling Weng...fine dining



Mondo Nougat Factory




The car is filled with different kinds of nougat



Passed by a christmas tree farm on the way...REAL christmas trees =)



Highlight of the day: Moon Sun Rise! (Bryan 2008)
It's actually moon rise + sun set but he was so excited to tell us that it's moon sun rise LOL




Our dinners wahaha

We went to UWA (University of Western Australia) at night too...


One of the buildings in UWA. Very nice right? Like Babylon...Egypt...those kind of places. WHY doesn't our uni have this kind of building??

As the night is still young, we went to Mill Point to have a night view of the City of Perth, then went to the casino to have a look =P

Went back home feeling tired but satisfied =)

Our 收获 for the day:

- 9 bottles of wine
- gifts of honey (3 different types in each gift pack)
- nobody bought chocolates because it's kinda expensive
- 3kg of nougats
- good experience of wine tasting (I knew more about wine now hehe)