July 7th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Daryl Soh
After getting tons of pictures from the beautiful land of bali, I’ve made a slideshow with animoto, it’s incredibly easy to use and cheap. Try it for your next travel pictures, for the time being here’s mine.
November 30th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Daryl Soh
Woke up around 0700hrs. My wife prepared a very light breakfast for us, and after that we headed to Harbour Town for some shopping.
Harbour Town was an outlet shopping centre for some of the brands like adidas, nike, etc.
As we were pretty early, most of the shops were not open yet. We dropped by Pure & Natural for our second breakfast. We ordered a chicken wrap and a plate of caesar salad to share. The food was great, what I enjoyed most was the caesar salad. Very fresh and crunchy vegetables topped with smoked bacon.
The bacon was insanely delicious.
After a hearty breakfast, we broke into two teams and went shopping separately. The prices for the clothings were ok, not exactly cheap. Nevertheless, we had to cure our shopping itch since we were already here.
After we were done, we proceed to watch the Red Bull Air Race.
Crowds watching the Red Bull Air Race.
After the finals, we were treated with acrobatic flying by RAAF Roulettes with their Pilatus PC9.
A RAAF FA18 Hornet flying close proximity to us.
The engine was so loud that it was scaring the seagulls nearby.
After the end of the show, we walked back toward the city. We passed by the Bell Tower.
We went to a supermarket near our hotel to buy our groceries. My! The queue was long! It’s totally different from what we had previously at Albany and Margaret River. David and I queued up while Yang Hui and my wife went to pick up the food. The queue took around 30mins and I’m really glad that we were out of the place.
After we placed our groceries back at the hotel, my wife and I get ready for our last wedding shoot at the Matilda Boat Shed.
While we were at the Matilda Boat Shed having our wedding shoot, there’s cars blowing their horns and giving us their congratulations. This was probably something that we don’t often see in Singapore.
We shot till the sky turns dark and we proceed back to our hotel for our dinner.
November 30th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Daryl Soh
Woke up early today at 0600hrs to get the morning light for our wedding photo shoot. The lighting was good but the weather was cold cold cold!
My wife changed into the gown at the lodging and we took a short ride to the jetty. I didn’t take any of my own shots there and it’s too cumbersome to bring the camera.
We did at a pretty fast paced and finish everything within an hour.
We had our hearty breakfast back at the observatory and started to move our luggage into the car.
One last shot at the observatory before we head for Perth.
The ride toward Perth was quite long which took about three hours plus.
Finally we are back to the city. But somehow I had mixed feelings.
All along I thought I’m a city person as I preferred cosmopolitan city beaming with life and how easy it was for me to look for a decent toilet to do my business, but right now I’m already starting to miss the wilderness that only rural areas could offer.
Anyway we stopped by at Fremantle before we proceed to Perth.
After the long ride, we were checking out their toilets to ease our bladders.
Crossing a railway track toward the fishing boat harbour.
Fishing harbour at Fremantle. Sculptures reflected how life used to be at the harbour.
Yacht docking at the harbour.
The two more popular seafood restaurant down at Fremantle were probably the Cicerello’s Seafood Restaurant and Kailis Fish Market Cafe, but we chose Kailis due to a recommendation that we saw in a forum.
Cicerello’s Seafood Restaurant by the harbour.
After I ordered the food from Kailis, I was given a device which will beep once the food is ready. Pretty cool eh.
People enjoying their food under the shade with a tint of cool breeze.
Finally our food came and again the portion is MADNESS!!!
These which looks like mini lobsters to me are called Yabbies. Very fresh and juicy.
After our lunch, we went down to the Fremantle Markets.
Street performers entertaining the crowds with their talents.
We met up with David and Yang Hui at Dome and proceed to check in to Medina Barracks. We saw the entrance of the hotel but couldn’t find the place to park the car. After circling the place for a while, Yang Hui dropped off from the car and check with the staff inside.
Finally, we managed to locate the carpark after Yang Hui checked with the staffs. Upon entering the carpark, we stumbled on this funny sign. Probably will look funny to Singaporeans only, wat’s PCC in Perth anyway?
The lodge was good, very spacious and clean. It was equipped with washing machine and dryer as well! As David and Yang Hui need to go out to meet their friends in Perth, my wife and I took the opportunity to clean every single piece of clothing that we had.
Later into the night, David and Yang Hui was back from their dinner, we had our Leeuwin Estate Frog Series Reisling while we watched Tv. After a while I was knocked out on the sofa.
November 23rd, 2008 / 1 Comment » / by Daryl Soh
After whale watching at Cape Naturaliste Lighthouse, we passed by Dunsbourough and had our lunch at Chicken Treat. The chicken wasn’t exactly fantastic, but the coleslaw was good though. I would definitely choose KFC over Chicken Treat.
Back in Busselton, we went straight toward the jetty to visit the Underwater Observatory.
Walking along the 1.8km jetty to the Underwater Observatory. The weather was great today, it’s not as windy as the day before.
Saw a yacht some distance away, cruising in the sea.
After we paid for our tickets to the Underwater Observatory, we waited for a couple of minutes before the tour starts.
My wife was pointing to me that there’s a lot of birds resting at the further end of the jetty which I took some snapshots.
The tour started with the guide giving us a history of the busselton jetty, followed by a walk down the stairs which we were greeted by beautiful visual sights of marine life through the glass panels.
The guide was saying occasionally they could even see dolphins swimming around the observatory.
Beautiful beams of corals could be seen through the glass panels.
After making our way back up, we take a slow walk back.
A tired bird taking a break.
Seagull shots
When we were back to the start point of the jetty, we witnessed a wedding ceremony at the beach.
One shot of the jetty.
Flocks of seagulls awaiting to be fed.
Sisters playing on the beach.
After snapping pictures for almost the whole day, my battery was running dry. I asked David to drop me off back at the lodging while they get our dinner at Coles. As I was already tired of angmo food, I asked my wife to get some instant noodles instead.
After charging the battery for 1/2 hours, I sprung back to snapping action again.
After sunset we headed back for our dinner. After dinner we drank the Rose wine we brought from Redgate and the rest played card games.
Slept around 2300 as we got to prepare to do our wedding shots next morning
November 17th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Daryl Soh
Woke up at 7am today, the owners of the Observatory Guest House were already preparing breakfast for us. The breakfast consists of bacon, sausages, toast bread, coffee and orange juice.
After breakfast, we went to Cape Naturaliste Lighthouse.
Inside the lighthouse, the guide was telling to us the history of the lighthouse and how life were hard for the lighthouse keepers as they did not have paid annual leave and not to mention that they were inhaling harmful vapor from the kerosene everyday. Thankfully now the lighthouse was fully automated.
Up at the lighthouse, the guide was pointing out to the sea that he saw some whales activities. At first it’s pretty hard to us to spot the whales as we were quite a distance away, after a while we managed to see gushes of water shooting out of the water.
Can you spot the fin of the humpback whale in the center of the photo?
The guide told us that we could get a closer look by walking thru a whale watching trail which was nearby.
One more shot of the naturaliste lighthouse before we proceed to the whale watching point.
It’s a 15 minutes sandy walking trail to the lookout point.
When we reached the lookout point, we already saw quite a number of whales in the sea but too bad my lens was not long enough for this.
My wife hiding under the hood while waiting for the whales to surface.
This was the closest that my lens could bring me. My Nikon 55-200mm VR was maxed out.
Some visitors getting into the action too!
After we had taken our shots, we proceed back to Busselton.
