A whole new world...

Well... this is my first venture into the bloggosphere and I have to say that I'm a little nervous aswell as excited! Hello big interweb world out there. Hope y'all doing alright. Well I have just arrived home in Victoria from my surprise birthday holiday that my lovely boy planned for us both to celebrate me getting another year older. In celebration of this momentous occasion he took me to the state of his birth, Western Australia. We had never managed to get there before as we had both thought that if you're going to travel that long on a plane you may aswell go overseas to Asia, which we have done numerous times already. So anyhow back to W.A. The sunshine was beautiful and consistant (something that is definately lacking in Melbourne), the beaches were gorgeous, white sand that just goes on and on and the wildlife was plentiful. Especially in Monkey Mia which has a very misleading name as practically the only animal we didn't see there was an actual monkey! Oh, when I think of the many animals we saw. Naturally there were dolphins which is the usual reason people trek out to Monkey. We were in luck as the dolphins had just given birth to little bitty baby dolphins (which are possibly the cutest thing I have ever seen!)
Unfortunately I couldn't get the little blighters to pose for me and my crappy camera has a one second delay between when I push the button and when the image is captured but this pic came out quite nice. Plus I also had the honour of being chosen to feed one of the dolphins (apparently by the dolphin, but I think the woman in charge just liked my bright red Monkey Magic t-shirt!). Let me tell you it was pretty cool. On our trip we also saw (in no particular order) Loggerhead turtles (bigger than I thought), Dugongs (in the distance, very shy creatures), Hermit crabs (Ed and I attempted to sell a larger shell home to one who seemed to be growing too big for his shell (alas, after a half hour inspection of the premises, he declined), Blue swimmer crabs (Ed was hoping for a seafood dinner but he wasn't fast enough), emus (just passing through the resort), stingrays (via our glass-bottomed boat which was fun to putt about in but not fast enough to chase anything with!) and to top it off, the smallest, cutest shark ever (which appeased Ed in his hunt to see a shark on our trip, even if it wasn't a threat to his life). So I'm still basking in the loveliness that was our fantastic trip and I hope that this feeling will last through my first week back at work.