Can't believe it's almost a week since we posted from Jo'burg. At that time we thought we'd be flying to Perth WA that night. In fact our flight was delayed almost 24 hours thanks to technical problems with Qantas. They put us up in a pretty classy hotel, but we still spent pretty much all day Saturday and all day Sunday at the airport. It was quite a relief to finally get airborne. The result was instead of three days in Perth we only had two, and one of those was taken up by the booked trip to Wave Rock on Tuesday (Norma's birthday). We did our best with a boat trip on the Swan River and a walk in the park on Heirisson Island but really Perth needs more time. Then it was another Qantas jumbo to Melbourne and on to Launceston in a Dash 8. After our earlier experience we didn't much enjoy reading about the Qantas jumbo that lost electrical power 15 minutes out of Bangkok. According to the Australian paper we read in the air as we left Perth the battery backup was only good for an hour, so it would have been bad news if it had happened over the ocean. This had all happened while we were flying over the Indian Ocean in another Qantas jumbo that was almost a day behind schedule because of a technical fault. Lovely!
Wave Rock is over 200 miles east of Perth in Western Autralia, so it was a long day in a 4WD bus, which fortunately was air-conditioned because it was very hot (41 degrees in the shade and there wasn't any shade). We've never been so happy to climb back into a bus! The rock itself is one face of a huge granite mass which has been eroded by the wind over millions of years into the shape of a huge breaking wave about 15m high.Much more about Tassie to follow.
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