Saturday 29th December 2007

We decided not to set an alarm this morning - but Nikki still woke us up in plenty of time for the free breakfast (glad that old alarm still works... her stomach!). After eating, we went out into Fremantle for the day to have a look around the shops. In one of the 'Rock N' Roll' shops, Nikki bought herself a wicked t-shirt with the money Katie gave her for Christmas - it's 'The Who' logo, but in sparkly jewels... it looks amazing on her!

After looking around the shops and then the Fremantle markets, which were buzzing with hundreds of people, we took a walk round to the harbour. When we were there we saw a speed boat about to go out Jet Boating. We've wanted to do that ever since New Zealand, so we jumped at the chance... it was only $30! The staff took all our valuables off us and locked them away and then handed out plastic macs to the wimps who didn't want to get to wet... including Nikki. In no time, we were pulling out through the harbour and into the Indian Ocean.

The Jet Boating was BRILLIANT! We were flying across the waves - getting up to speeds of about 75kmph! Every so often the driver would throw a really steep turn or slow us almost to a stop - and the nose would dive into the waves, making waves crash over the boat, soaking everyone. It was so funny, because every time he did the stopping, Nikki would start to scream (thinking we were gonna capsize) and get a mouthful of sea water.

Once we were safely back on dry land we treated ourselves to fish & chips in one of the restaurants. We sat outside in the sunshine looking at all the boats and had a really good time. Plus a scallop somehow got smuggled into our bag of food, so that was a bonus!

This evening, we dropped our bags of at the hostel and the caught the free Cat Bus down to South Beach, where we sat on the sand for about an hour and chilled out. We would've stayed longer, but the wind started to pick up and was blowing loads of sand at us. Afterwards, because we'd missed the last bus, we had to walk back to the hostel and amazingly... Emma didn't moan once!

Jet Boating, Fish & Chips and free Scallops... what a cool day!