The fat lady has sung!!!

Having said we only had one more day of torture - what do they go and do but hang on until the 5th day - and being the mugs we are we had to buy tickets for this just before we lost those two late wickets!!!!! So we were forced to spend another half day of pain and abuse, all to no avail!!!

Still, we put up a bit of a show at least and we had fun cheering all the fours and a few sixes until disaster struck!!

Anyway, our last day in Perth was good - we went over to Rottnest Island, a heritage site and home to yet another cuddly animal - the Quokka!!!

We saw lots of these creatures, even though they are meant to be nocturnal in their habit! We also did some more snorkelling but not as good as the Great Barrier Reef. The only downside of Rottnest were the flies - and guess who forgot to take the fly nets????!!!!! The only real opportunity we had to use them and they were back in the hotel!!!

We have now had a good flight back to Sydney and yet again it was raining when we arrived. Our home for the next couple of weeks is Cremorne Point Manor (thank you to Mark Slade for the recommendation - it's great!!!). We are only an 8 minute ferry away from Circular Quay, the Opera House and the Bridge. We have a couple of days sightseeing before Christmas and hope the weather cheers up a bit for that.