Sabbatical in the Nature

Back in holland again

After a great 5 months travelling I'm back home in holland again. its great to be back and see everybody again.

the wedding

The last week I have been running around looking for suitable clothes to wear for Michaels wedding, which will happen tomorrow. The wedding being outside at a lovely wine farm called vrede en lust. I just hope it stays dry as rain is expected for the weekend. The countdown has started.

I still have a couple of days left before I start work as well. Funny enough looking forward to working again, and being back at home.

Swan River wine tasting

Karen and me went wine tasting in the lovely Swan river area. We started of at 10 am, and at that time of the morning the taste buds are not quite used to having a wine yet, but it was not bad. At the next place we had some more tasting but had to have cup of tea and some lovely cheese to just give the stomach a lining. The wines and the cheese being lovely. Then for something different we stop off at a beer brewery,but that was not so good.i tried the ginger beer (with alcohol) but that was really not good. Then stopped off at a Nougat place, purely by chance, but wow they had the most amazing nougat, and we could taste. Then off to some more wine tasting and eventually landed up at water,s edge winery. This winery had the greatest chardonnay, and a lovely bubbly. We needed some food, and had a great lunch overlooking the Swan river.

Water's edge Winery

Lunch time

Perth city center and Perth Zoo

Today with a lovely 33 deg sunshine, i walked around perth center and then in the afternoon went to the Perth zoo, were Clive was working the day.

The massive fig tree in the middle of perth city,overshadowing the road

the perth mint building. Here they made the olympic medals for the sydney games.

The zoo harbour, overlooking the swan river and the perth city center in the background

Perth zoo,something i have never seen before nore even knew it was around. cassouweri, very much like a emu, but has the most amazing head colours.

Monkey

the sun bears, new to the zoo,and the smallest bear around. feeding time at the zoo
the female, 4 years old and very tame

male, 6 years old,and was very badly treated and abused

Rottnest Island

On Tuesday I went across to Rottnest Island, which has the quokkas strolling around on the island.They get really friendly and get very close to them and even stroke them.

Rottnest Island harbour - only bicycles allowed.