Adelaide City~ Day 2

Second day in the city, we spent a lot of time in Rundle St and its malls. It is Adelaide’s shopping street, Angie got her backpack from Cheap as Chips store for only $12. Slazenger brand. Cheap as Chips is like reject shop but has variety of products.

Saw this old style lolly shop, so tempted to get in. =P So we bought a $2 irish cream choc fudge, taste great =) Another temptation for us, Chatime! Gosh, we can’t resist this now. Grass Jelly Roasted Milk Tea for $4.70 regular size, if you don’t convert into MYR it’s cheaper than Malaysia lor. Hehe. 

Taking a stroll in the Botanic Garden****. It has many types of big trees, bamboo trees and some flower gardens. Not too big, but we easily spent about 1 and half hours here until it closes at 6.30pm. There’s free guided walk around the garden at 10.30am daily. 

"Why are u looking at us?"

Doesn't it look like banana bunches hanging on it? =P

Peter took this picture outside a hospital.

There is an old man that wearing pajamas and an old nurse that having a cigarette break.

Our dinner that day, Chicken Pita with salad and roasted capsicum salsa sauce. YUMS!

Perth City & around

Perth is an easy going, and convenient city. They have the CAT bus service around the city which runs for free. Major tourist spot such as Bell Tower, Kings Park, William St (Chinatown) and the city are easily accessed.

Swan Bells Tower

London Court

Picnic and relaxing at Kings Park

Boab Tree, originally from Northern Territory

Bottlebrush

Scarborough Beach

Hillary's Boat Harbour

Sandboarding @ Lancelin, Perth's Kings Park

Waking up in the cozy little cabin, had breakfast of soup and bread, we are ready for today’s sand boarding game! Before that, we visited the nearby Lake Thetis. It was a very beautiful lake, with living stromatolites (oldest known form of life on earth). Look at the beautiful reflection of the sky~ There’s  a walking trail around the lake, there’s no entrance fee to this lake.

One hour drive from Cervantes, we reach the small fishing town of Lancelin. It is also the famous spot for SAND BOARDING*****. As we get into the town, we got our sand board at a shop located in a residential area. There are also some other shops renting sand boards like Gull service station but they were all leased out. So better be early if it’s a public holiday or else what a disappointment! Mostly the rental price is $20 for 2 hours and $50 deposit. There’s no sign board around town to the sand dunes, so will have to ask the locals there for directions. It’s just few minutes from town. There’s a parking area for cars, if you have 4WD then can just drive into sand dune and pick the spot you like.

WOW our first time trying sand boarding, it was damn fun! Exciting and scary, just like riding a roller coaster. HAHA. The climbing up is the one that exhaust us for sure. We rented 2 boards for the 6 of us which is good enough, since we need some time to recharge! But maybe next time we’ll take 4 boards instead =) yea, next time. . .

After a loooonnng training session, we only dare to stand up surfing on the dunes. Before that we were sitting or laying on the board . . LOL . . . Of course it’s easier than surfing in the sea, but still it’s scary from so high up!

Freshened up at the town’s public toilet, we got our lunch at Gull and proceed to PERTH. It was about one and half hour drive, went straight to the famous Apple Strudel, Corica. =.= it closes every Sunday. P&A shall come back one day!

Then to famous King’s Park*****. It is a huge park with good picnic spots and great view of Perth city. We spent a lot of time looking at the wildflowers of Australia and taking pictures after pictures =P

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Night view of Perth city

When our stomach started growling, we went to city to search for some good food. Didn’t do much research on Perth’s food, we ended up turning round and round the city to look for food! Cause it’s a Sunday, most restaurants aren’t open or they close early. Even the famous Greenhouse Restaurant. =.= In the end, we found a restaurant in the Melbourne Hotel. Haha, turn up they cook really yummy food! We had scotch fillet, spicy fettuccine, pizza and chicken chop. It was all really yummy~~ The last meal of our seven days trip, aaahh… Good ending =)