Deadly 60 – Australia is being broadcast on BBC one tomorrow at 17:15 for anyone that’s interested. Within the program, lucky wildlife expert Steve Backshall and his crew head for the Australian continent as he continues his Deadly 60 mission. During the program he visits Perth (yay!) which turns our to be home to one [...]
Redback Spiders catch and eat snakes – Really?
February 9, 2009 by 7 Comments
I was having a little bit of banter with an Australian work colleague of mine the other day. Having found another Redback spider in the back garden a couple of weeks ago I’ve found myself becoming a little laid back with the frequency of these near-death encounters Poking the red back with a stick, I [...]
Monkey Mia Dolphins – Enjoying the Monkey Mia Dolphin Resort
February 1, 2009 by 2 Comments
Once we had decided to embark on our Road trip around western Australia, we had two options. Option one: head down south towards the wine regions of Margaret River where we would spend the week touring the local wineries amongst beautiful landscapes, getting slowly drunker by the day OR Option two: travel north to see [...]
Wild Budgies and Zebra Finches – Australias local pet shop
January 31, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Since arriving down under I’ve already written about the wonders of the bird life here in Western Australia. Coming from Northern England, the most exotic birds we saw were the pigeons we’d often see waddling around. The poor things normally had a toe missing or stumpy foot due to a close call with a piece [...]
Dead whale washed up on Sorrento Beach
September 21, 2008 by Leave a Comment
It doesn’t seem that long ago when I blogged about a dead Whale which had been washed up in Hillarys boat harbour just down the road from where we lived here in Quinns Rocks. Back then, the carcass was in the news because it was starting to draw the unwelcome attention of a great white [...]
We’ve seen our first Whales!
June 7, 2008 by Leave a Comment
OK, so we’ve seen red-back spiders and plenty of parrots but last week we can add Whales onto our list of things that we’ve seen. Junior had acquired 100 stars on his ‘star chart’ so we asked him what he wanted to do for a treat and his response was AQWA which is the Aquarium [...]
Flies in Australia – Kind of annoying!
October 25, 2007 by 3 Comments
Springtime in Perth brings with it many great things. Beautiful spring flowers in the park, cleaner homes and warmer weather. Unfortunately it also brings with it Flies; and lots of them. Apparently there are millions of flies that hang out in the deserts during the cooler winter months, then as the temperatures begin to increase [...]
Red-back Spiders sighted – time to reset the counter
October 7, 2007 by 4 Comments
Back in January I casually noted that you won’t find a red-back spider or similar deadly critter hidden around every corner. Now we’re into October I thought I’d never get around to meeting anything that could potentially kill me and if I’m being honest I was acting a little to laid back when I was [...]
Great White Shark Closes Hillarys Boat Harbour
August 4, 2007 by 2 Comments
I love Hillarys boat Harbour, it has to go down as one of the nicest, cleanest, most children friendly beaches I’ve ever seen. Well, it would be if there wasn’t a four meter long great white lurking in the water! Fisheries officers spotted the shark after reports it had been attracted by A decaying 15-tonne [...]
Steamy nights and a trip down to Rockingham
March 6, 2007 by 1 Comment
It has been really steamy over the last couple of days. The thermometer has been hitting 42 degrees Celsius (107 F in old money) during the day and hasn’t been dropping below 24 C (75 F) during the night which has been pretty uncomfortable. Still, I’m not complaining…! The nights may be pretty uncomfortable but [...]
Yorkshire has pigeons Perth has parrots
February 16, 2007 by 2 Comments
These little guys still amaze me. We went for a trip to Lake Joondalup which is about ten minutes drive from our new house in Kinross. It’s quite a popular hang out for families and due to the size of the lake, and the fact that it’s now so close to our new house has [...]
Ten things I’ve noticed whilst living in Australia
January 25, 2007 by 5 Comments
It’s two months to the day that we arrived here in Sunny Perth so I thought I’d celebrate the occasion by writing about ten things that I’ve noticed about that fantastic country that we now live in. I have a feeling that this will not be the last entry I make on this subject matter [...]
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