Here are some pics of my first couple of months in Perth.
Here's my house:

Just kidding!!

Here's the front of my house

The back and the garden - the first photo shows my room with tin roof under a tree... Who needs an alarm clock when you've got hungry birds dropping seed shells on your roof!

Flatmates Nancy and Jake (guess which one's which!)

Here's a nearby street where I start my run

And here's where I go running!

That's Rottnest Island right on the horizon:

These are some of the things I've been up to:
Learning to sail on the Viking Lady:

My other flatmate, Scott and I went exploring the south:
We climbed the Gloucester Tree - here's me at the top at 60m up, and Scott on his way down... (check out the white knuckles!) The forest here is incredibly ancient and beautiful. There are lots of interesting birds here too.

The view from the top was spectacular - it's a fire lookout tree. The view through the branches looking down was dizzying!

At the bottom

Scott and I explored more around d'Entrecasteaux National Park. Here's some "falls" in the park, not very torrential for the time of year, but lucky to be flowing at all.

This is the view from the hills near Windy Harbour. Yes, it's windy! WH itself is little more than a collection of tin shack holiday homes - one for sale for a mere $360,000! The next photos show Cathedral Rock, some weird weathered rocks up on the cliffs, and a flock of emus we saw!

One long weekend I took off as far south as I could get on my new very old bike. I climbed Bluff Knoll in the Stirling Range - the tallest thing in Southern WA, at a staggering 1095m!. Here's the view from the trail head, another back to the car park from the top (can you see my bike down there??), a snap of me at the top I persuaded someone to take, and a view from the road on the way home. I must love heights now, or something - the same weekend I did the Valley of the Giants Tree-Top Walk; a vertiginous, swaying walk right up in the tree tops. At ground level the trees are interesting too.

That's it for now - more later!