Tag: Western Australia
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THE NULLARBOR CROSSING
While living in Europe, Padma and I missed one aspect of Australia: the emptiness. There is no emptiness in Western Europe, certainly not on the highways. So with the arrival of the cooler Autumn weather, Padma and I decided to experience some good old Aussie emptiness. And there’s no better place for that than the Nullarbor Plain of Western Australia and South Australia. So we packed our bags and loaded our Toyota Hybrid and started driving East … destination Melbourne (3500 kms) to visit our sons, Joseph and Xander. The Nullarbor…
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GIJA JUMULU
You’d be forgiven if you thought this huge boab tree (Adansonia gregorii) had lived in this spot overlooking Perth for many centuries. In fact, it’s only resided in the Western Australian Botanic Garden since 2008. No, boabs aren’t super-fast growing trees. The tree is in fact 750 years old and began its life 3200 kilometres to the north in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The tree had the misfortune of being right smack in the middle of the proposed Great Northern Highway. ‘No worries,’ said the folks at WA Botanic…
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ALONE IN HOTEL QUARANTINE
As Padma, Joseph and I hit the tarmac at the Perth International Airport on Tuesday night we knew our real adventure was only about to begin. The dreaded forced hotel quarantine awaited us. We had read online of so many experiences of Aussies in quarantine; so many folks just couldn’t cope with being locked up for 14 days. We had no idea how we’d manage but we had one overriding rule: keep a positive attitude, no matter what. Our first contact with an Australian was with an attendant who handed us…
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