Holidays+recommended

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My holiday to the North of Western Australia. By Louis
Nathalie and I drove to the North of Western Australia for a road trip of ten days. I had been advised by some people (including Nicky) that Coral Bay and Exmouth is very far from Perth and the road to get there is really boring, but the plane ticket to go to Exmouth was expensive and travelling by car is a good way to discover the state of Western Australia. The first day, I woke up and left early in the morning. The plan of the day was to reach Carnarvon. I spent five hours on the road to get to Geraldton, then I stopped for lunch and I refuelled the car. In the afternoon, I spent a little bit more than five hours to get to Carnarvon. After this long day on the road, I ate a good dinner, hung around in the city centre and fell asleep early like my day has started to! . I had been advised too that Coral Bay doesn’t have a real grocery store and practically only one restaurant. I bought groceries in Carnarvon before I left for Coral Bay. The day after, the real holiday started. I spent two days in Coral Bay. It’s a paradise for snorkelling and I like snorkelling. It looks like a holiday camp, you don’t need a car there. I took a kayak and snorkelling tour and I saw so many fish, turtles and sharks too. I have good pictures of them. It’s a good place for fishing too. At sunset, fishermen arranged their catches of the day. There were a great number of fish and a large variety. I looked at the stall and I asked a fisherman to buy a piece of fish for our dinner and the fisherman gave a huge piece of yellow fin tuna for free. This was fantastic! After Coral Bay, I went to Exmouth for two days. I visited Yardie Creek in the Cape Range National Park. It’s gorgeous, but there were too many flies. The second day in Exmouth was I took a whale-shark tour. I spent all the day in a boat with twenty people and the crew. I swan with Manta rays, I saw dolphins and whales and a sea snake. The event of the day, I swam with a whale-shark, the biggest fish on the earth. I have good pictures of him. It’s incredible, it’s a once in a life time adventure. After five days, it was time to return to Perth. In the morning, before I left Exmouth, I snorkelled at Turquoise Bay and Lakeside in the Cape Range National Park. All the Ningaloo Reef is beautiful. I drove around five hours to reach Carnarvon, where I spent the night. The next morning, I visited a fruit plantation and I saw on the road the big a satellite dish, one of the symbols of Carnarvon. After Carnarvon, I spent two days in Kalbarri. I visited the Kalbarri National Park, I saw the popular places: the Loop with the natural window and the Z-bend. At Kalbarri, every morning, a woman fed pelicans on the beach. I saw some people eating oysters directly from the rocks. They were using a screw driver and a hammer. I tried it too, it’s great, free fresh oysters!. Last stop, Geraldton, I spent a night there, hung around in the city centre and I visited the Batavia museum. It was a very great holiday! Louis

Queensland by Annie
My last holiday was to **__Queensland__**. I went there with my friends a few years ago. We went there to enjoy the sun, beaches and sights. We flew there; it took about 7 hours. When we arrived we were very excited because there was a limousine waiting for us at the airport.

We stayed in a motel. We enjoyed our accommodation because it was comfortable and it was good value. The food was good I especially enjoyed eating the fruit, e.g. pineapples and mangoes. I would recommend Queensland for a holiday. If you do go you must visit the Gold Coast and farms. The Gold Coast is famous for its tourists. An experience not to be missed is to ride in a hot air balloon.

I find that there is a lot of difference between the Gold Coast and Perth. The Gold Coast is well set up for tourism while Perth is just good for living. There are beautiful beaches in the Gold Coast. It is so relaxing just lying on the beach with a cold drink in your hand. Also, the weather is fine and sunny all the time. Perth, however, is a city where it is hard to find a place to relax.. In the Central Business Centre you can only see buildings all around you. The traffic is busy during working hours so that it is difficult to park your car. Moreover, the weather is unpredictable in Perth. In winter, it rains for many days and it’s cold at night. In summer, it is pretty hot and you don’t want to going out.

By Chan Annie