Kalbarri

Kalbarri weekend getaway

Hawks Head, Kalbarri National Park

Cliffs along the Kalbarri coast

Living on the edge

Hidden beach

Black Cockatoo at the Kalbarri rainbow jungle bird park

 Pinnacles

Pinnacles 

Rottnest Island

I took Brent to Rottnest Island for his birthday. We took our own bikes and rode the whole way around the island. Unfortunately half way round the seat fell off one of the bikes! It was a long ride to the finish...

Esperance

Welcome to Esperance! Esperance is the most beautiful town in the world. I have done a fair amount of travelling in my time, and I can honestly say that Esperance has some of the most beautiful, clear, blue, uncrowded beaches in the world, and I'm not just saying that because its my home town!

Brent Surfing at Twilight Cove

Salmon beach

Observatory beach

Jippy! The cutest dog in the world!

Pink Lake

Lucky Bay at Cape Le Grand National Park

The Duke of Orleans

Frenchman's Peak

Thomas River

Graduation class of 2011

Class of 2011

Nursing Graduates Dinner

Graduation Ceremony

Nursing Excellence Awards

Full Moon Party

When you arrive on Koh phangan, the first thing you notice is backpackers covered in bandages. Most likely from motorbike accidents or burns from the fire ropes on the beaches at night. With deadly buckets of spirit of your choice and 10,000 wild people on the beach the full moon party is one crazy experience everyone should have!

Buckets!

 Beach Party

 Crazy English kids and Brent

Magic Mountain 

Skipping rope, naturally 

Made it to sunrise alive! 

Diving on Koh Tao

Arriving at Big Blue Dive Resort on Koh Tao we began the adventure of a life time! The resort was so relaxed and friendly. At night we would walk along the beach trying out different restaurants and bars, and watching people release paper lanterns  and fire works. 

After getting my dive ticket a few years ago, my diving adventure began with a refresher course. The next day we embarked on my first real deep water dive. 

Reaching the bottom of the ocean at about 15m I looked around at the coral and fish. Suddenly I can hear clanging noises, all the dive instructors are hitting their metal torches on their tanks, trying to get each others attention. I look directly above me to see the big white belly of the biggest shark I'v seen in my life! It turned out to be a very curious baby whale shark. The whale shark followed us around for 40 mins, going up and down, coming right up to me and then turning just centimeters from my face. On reaching the surface the whale swam under one of the instructors and lifted her up on his back! It was the most amazing experience of my life and we were so lucky to tick diving with a Whale Shark off our bucket list.

Brent and I

The whale shark hand signal

The exciting dive was finished off by giving back to the ocean with a clean up dive on the reef.