Perth Hills

When we were in Melbourne we were advised that Perth was the place to be, and they were practically giving away jobs there. So we thought we'd head that way. So did every other backpacker in Oz. Trying to find accomodation in Perth was next to impossible, with most places booked out for weeks in advance, we even heard today that some backpackers had to sleep on the streets because of the problem! Due to this we booked a place in the city but then had to head to the outskirts of town for a few days to bide our time. We arrived in Perth Hills, about 40km from the city, to a little shack of a hostel, complete with resident kangaroos that came up and said hello everyday! It was really nice but there wasn't much to do, not that 'Camel riding and Tea Rooms' 10 minutes away counts as 'nothing' of course. Then we found a place called 'The Maze' which was a big kids dream! It consisted of 3 mazes, mini golf, frisbee golf, and it had a koala sanctuary! We drew at frisbee golf (not a game to be played in the scorching heat unless you're a fan of fetching your frisbee from out of a tree) but mini golf just got ugly. I will admit that Nic won the first game, as I had a rather 'tricky' hole that took me 10 goes to complete, but the second game a similar thing happened and Nic stopped playing because she was so convinced of her victory. She is wrong. She still claims that she was triumphant twice over, but I beg to differ I tell thee, and we have only just started speaking again since the ugliness.