Trip to
Saturday October 6th, 2007: Left LA at 10:30 pm on United to
Monday October 8th, 2007: Arrived
Tuesday October 9th, 2007: Woke up early so went for a walk along the beach on the sand (to the North - Trigg Beach). Reached some rocks and found an osprey to take some pictures of – he was posing for me.
Attended the APAC meeting for the rest of the day. Went to bed early since I was tired so I missed the APAC dinner which was at Freemantle Jail.
Wednesday October 10th, 2007: Attended the APAC meeting. Dinner at Oceanus with the DERCAP workshop Organizing Committee in the evening. Greek owner is quite a character. It took 1 hour to get a cab back to the hotel.
Thursday October 11th, 2007: Workshop all day. Workshop went well. Seems the attendees were well engaged and there was good discussion. Dinner in the evening at Frasers in a private room. Excellent dinner. Brazilian waiters. The restaurant proper has a fantastic view of the city.
Friday October 12th, 2007: Workshop in the morning. Went pretty well. We’ll see if we can get delivery on next steps. In the afternoon I got a ride to Hertz at the airport with someone else taking a taxi there. Rented a Toyota Corolla and decide to drive North. I want to make it to the Pinnacles which is quite far ~250km. I try to go through Lancelin which doesn’t go through so have to take a detour. Lancelin looks interesting - small town lots of white sand dunes – no time to explore this trip. I get to Pinnacles about 30 minutes before sunset – good light but not really enough time to explore properly. Interesting place – limestone pinnacles everywhere – a bizarre landscape. I see some pink parakeets on top of one of the Pinnacles. Long drive back to
Saturday October 13th, 2007: Checked out of the hotel around 8:30 and drove south through Freemantle and along the coast to Bussellton – bought Bert a card!. This has a pier that is 2km long. Drove through the Ludlow forest – very pretty. Worked my way around the coast to
Sunday October 14th, 2007: Virgin Blue flight at 00:50 to