So weds we woke up even earlier to do a hike in the gorge. Apparently down in the caverns it's ten degrees hotter and our guide said it can be 50 or 60. That doesn't seem possible or safe but luckily we got there around 730 and finished by 10 so we missed a lot of the heat. The hike was 2 hour return and halfway thru we reached a river where we got to swim! Strong current but very nice water temperature, not like new hampshire rivers! Beautiful scenery which reminded me of Colorado actually. We were in some mountains with reddish rocks and green trees, looked a lot like my old home :)
After that we did a lot more driving until lunch at the petrol station, create sandwiches again, great... Then we drove a lot more to shell beach! Best beach ever! It's near shark bay which is where we spent the night. This beach was all shells instead of sand. Small white shells and turquoise water ( more swimming!) and nobody else there but us. That has been the case the whole week it's off season for tourists. It was like paradise :)
The hostel we stayed at in sharks bay was more like mini apartments with 2 bedrooms of 5 each and a bathroom and living room kitchen area. Luckily we stayed in the cool room. Our little posse has expanded to pretty much all the friendly people who don't want to just talk to the people they came with. So we have Ireland, England, Germany, and Switzerland! Not to mention USA... Alexa said they could all stay with us in boson hah so we will see who comes! It's stinky because the us is a lot harder to get a work visa vs Australia and Canada. So a lot of then plan to go to Canada when their work visa here is up and just visit the states from Canada.
It's a lot of fun being around so many different people from different places and it's also fun to be the only Americans! We teach all about America and we can pretty much make anything up and they think it's true. We dont do that too often tho! It's also fun to have other people to talk about how weird Australia is :) we have been trying to teach the non-native English speakers how their English is different from outs. Por ejemplo: when you say thanks (like in a store or restaurant etc) aussies say "no worries" or "you're alright" yesterday we thanked one of the Germans for taking our photo and she said you're welcome. Then she said "oh I mean no worries. I always say you're welcome!" so we let her know that it was ok to say you're welcome and everywhere else they say it! I love little language differences and teaching people about them, maybe I should switch careers.
Speaking I which Alexa and I have one of three options for the future. become travel food critics for obvious reasons. Or open hostels in the states, good ones, and have a booming business making America more backpackable. OR open a restaurant here. Even with us as the chefs it would be better than most places here (thats saying a lot),we could charge normal prices and be very successful! So the future is bright... We just need to pick one, or maybe become moguls and do all three?
Back to Weds night. Luckily I felt less like I was dying and Alexa and I did the Aussie/person on a budget thing and bought goon! Australia is really great but there are some parts of it I can't get over. In what kind of terrible world is beer the expensive option?!?!!! I was always proud of myself for liking beer because it's affordable. Anyway I am not forking over $40 for low end beer so we got $16 goon. Woohoo! How to describe goon... It's boxed wine in a bag with a spout. It comes in weird varieties like "fruity white" and the best way to truly get the message across is that I only can get myself to drink it when I add water. Water! Thats how I drink it! Enough said. Anyway with our goon we were able to join the cool kids and sit around and talk about our travels etc, we even stayed up till 10 pm!!!!
Ryan, rest assured the topic did turn to America and the Irish guy asked "do you guys all drink Budweiser?" I think I did a good job explaining that no, we also have really good beer in America and microbreweries! But I did tell him that bud is cheap so it has its place and I think we can all appreciate that...I also told him we went to the guinness brewery so we kept our street cred :)
I almost forgot dinner! Very good as well. After the past 2 feasts I told Alexa I figured he would cook me a whole pot of pasta. That's just what happened!! Everyone had some sort of alfredo with chorizo and I had a separate POT of pasta with tomato pesto sauce!! So yummy and I was able to share the second half of my pot with others. And garlic bread! Mmm the joys of eating!
So more rambling, Alexa and I keep seeing how uptight America is vs other places. Obviously this excludes Muslim countries but in Europe and Australia at least the tv and radio is much less censored. We are actually learning what the words are in songs that they beep in the us. And on tv they don't hold back-swearing and they showed boobs and butts! We were shocked and looked around and nobody else even noticed. England has their version of jersey shore which makes jersey shore look like a kids show. Also the 21 drinking age is just really frustrating when you see that everyone else was able to drink at 18 and somehow survived. Our Perth friends are refusing to return to the us until they are 21 because it was "so boring" so there are a lot of differences and it all makes the us seem uptight and like it takes itself too seriously. Oh well I don't personally see it changing anytime soon
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