Busselton: A little blue cottage at the jetty

There's a souvenir shop inside this little building, at the start of the jetty.

My baby niece skipped her newly started swimming lesson, my sis and bro in law postponed their usual morning grocery in Subiaco market and I missed my usual Saturday jog. We made our way, together with mom down south in Western Australia. After a brief stop in Mandurah and Bunbury, the next pit stop was Busselton.

I was at Busselton Jetty a few years ago, for a short 10 minutes as part of a day trip tour to Margaret River. This time around, it was a little longer. Busselton Jetty is said to be the longest timber-piled jetty in the Southern Hemisphere. It stretched 1.8 kilometres across Geographe Bay. You can spend a little more cash and take a train ride, or walk to the end. You will be rewarded with entrance (if you have paid for the ticket) to the Underwater Observatory at the end of your walk, if you are lucky. I said, if you are lucky, because it was closed the day we were there. LOL, speaking of timing.



Entrance up till the souvenir shop is free of charge. To access the remaining of the bridge, one has to pay $2.50 per person.

Side note: I'm tired of being tired :(

Thrombolites at Lake Clifton

My niece refered to this as “会长大的石头”, literally translated as stones that can grow up. They aren't exactly grow up but thrombolites, or rather 'living rock's are a form of microbialites, which are rock-like structures built by micro-organisms. One of the few places in the world where thrombolites grow is at Lake Clifton in Western Australia, approximately 3 hours drive south from Perth.

 

At the entrance, there were two walks to lead to the thrombolites - Thrombolites boardwalk or Lakeside Loop Trail. Difference being that the former was 600m return, while the latter 5km return. No prize in guessing to which we took.



It was fairly quiet on the day we visited. Not too sure if it was due to the winter season or merely because we were the only visitors at that time.



The thing to see was obviously the thrombolites, but Lake Clifton itself were beautiful and serene. The quietness obviously add to the beauty.




Side note: 端午节快乐 ^_^

Vivid Sydney 2012

There was suppose to be some image of someone sleeping on the roof of the Opera House, just not in this pic that I took.

I'll confess. This is an overdue post, I actually went to see those lights on the first day of the event and the event went on for slightly over 2 weeks... the event has ended on 11th June 2012. My apologies.

Vivid Sydney is an annual event (so, there's always next year... just saying) where a few spots in Sydney, usually the Circular Quay area - is transformed into a canvas of lights, music and ideas after the sun has set.

It was not just the buildings, there were some 'stations' set up along the walk up to the Opera House. There were heaps of people posing with the lights.

One of the two buildings with lights shows was the MCA (Museum of Contemporary Art).

... and the other was the Custom House...^_^

I tried to upload a little video on the light show but it was taking way tooooo long.. and the lappie stopped working the first try. Oh well..


Side note: Of late, blogger is such a nuisance to format.. bleh.