Holy effin' brown snake!

Hello all! Everything is going so great over here in WA! I've been working so much and saving up for the next leg of our adventure... INDONESIA! We are headed to Bali end of march and then going to spend some time in Lombok and maybe some other random islands surfing, eating coconuts and chillinnnnn! I'm so excited! And our friend Emma is coming too, I know we are going to have a great time all together!

Bry and I have been going on some awesome adventures lately, including Hamelin bay to see stingrays and a random beach with some day time skinny dipping bahaha the beaches here are nuts because some are so remote and deserted you feel like you are on your own beach island! 

Today we headed to canal rocks which is this beautiful rock formation by the seaside that was formed millions of years ago when the super continent of Gondwanaland (I can't even make up a name that wicked lol) broke up and australia smashed into India and all this rock and lava was pushed up from kilometres down in the earths crust and made these sweet rocks! Then with the tides pushing against the rocks, it eventually carved these canals where the water flows through. It is soooo beautiful! It was great weather too, not a cloud in the sky and we were keen to do some exploring. 

We head off the beaten path, literally. Bry was walking ahead of me down a little hill in a rocky area. I look over to my right where the rocks meet the ocean and I see it. This snake head poking out of the rocks. I freeze and yell bryyyaaaannnnaaaaaaaaaa snaaaakkkeeee!!! At this, she turns around and I watch the snake slither out of its rocky hiding place. It just keeps going and going. It's about 1.5 metres long, and instantly I recognize it's species. It is an Australian brown snake, the second deadliest snake in Australia, and it was moving FAST. Bry starts running up the next little hill, while I stand there frozen to the ground and literally shaking im so scared. And the snake follows her! I turn around and start running away because literally all I can think about is getting back to the car. Talk about fight or flight response. Bry yells at me not to leave her there and I snap out of it! She stops at the top and the snake goes off into the bush on the left sort of blocking her path so she does a huge detour around, running through the bush where there is no path and as soon as I see she's out of its way I turn around and run towards the car park. 

I had some serious adrenaline going through me! I was shaking and couldn't really talk for a few minutes lol we ended up going to the beach right after, but I was seriously still so on edge I didn't want to go too deep in the water and was just looking around everywhere haha 

We googled the brown snake and it turns out they are active during the day, very aggressive and territorial, and when it's pissed, it moves with its head and top part of the body off the ground and mouth open. Check check and check! Greeeeat! Turns out canal rocks is pretty well known for snakes which we didn't know, so I think I'll be avoiding that area from now on! 

We ended our day with a beauty swim at smiths beach, amazing woodfired pizzas and yum desserts at samudra, and a visit to the sand bar at the beach in dunsborough! What a day! There is actually never a time that we do something and it doesn't turn into an epic adventure :) never a dull moment with us! 

So that's what's new with me! Doing lots more exploring now that we know we are leaving soon. Thinking of going to see some of the caves next weekend, but we all know that we will probably end up at another beautiful beach! Life's tough. 

Missing everyone at home! Sending lots of love :) xo

Two broke girls

Sooo if my life was a tv show, (sometimes I think it should be!) yesterday would have been a really funny episode. In the morning, we picked up a few of our friends and headed down to meelup beach to be a part of the rally against shark culling that's going on in WA. There were other rallies happening across the country on the same day and time and it was cool knowing you were part of something like that. There was a great turnout of people and some very interesting speakers as well. It was well organized and I'm so stoked that we went! We also were part of this huge group photo spelling out "no cull" on the beach. We brought down bryannas crazy surf board she painted as a shark as part of the event and it was a hit! 

On the way home from there, the plan was to stop by my car, abandoned on this sketchy dirt road with a flat tire, do a quick tire change that I had learned at the wrecking yard the day before, and I would be on my way. Did it happen like so? Nope. 

We got to the car, which I was surprised was still there to be honest, and got all our "tools" ready. I took out the new tire, the jack and the tire iron which to me, for some reason, I felt very gangster carrying around hahaa I went to go loosen the bolts a bit before putting the jack on the car, but it didn't fit! The bolts were too long! The solution was the tire iron that actually came with my car, that was currently in our friends car in town half an hour away! Curses! 

So we drove into town, dropped off our two friends and went to pick up the right tools. ROUND TWO! we drove the half an hour back to Steve, just me and bryanna this time, and got to work. Needless to say, after much huffing, puffing and ganstster poses with our tire irons, we successfully changed a tire in my abandoned car in the Australian bush lol I was so stoked! It's such a great feeling to know that you can figure out your own dilemmas and do things on your own without help from anyone (except a few good girlfriends!) #independantwomen 

After that adventure we went home and had food and got ready for work. I had my first day as a cleaner at the caravan park which went well, and my first day at the pizza shop the night before, but today was the first time we worked together. Hilarity ensued because we basically ended up running the shop ourselves towards the end of the night. Bry was a great pizza teacher, showing me stuff I had forgotten from the day before, and we totally had a great night! We laughed so much, listened to bob Marley and the black keys and made pizza sauce, crust and cut up lots of ingredients in the massive industrial chopper haha halfway through the night when I looked at us in our oversized sauce stained work tshirts, I had a good laugh when I realized our life was just like that tv show two broke girls. It's crazy, loud, poor and topsy-turvy, but I wouldn't have it any other way :) 

We are working together again tonight at the pizza shop, let's see what kind of shenanigans we get up to tonight!