Thursday 6 September 2012

Lancelin & BACK to PERTH to complete one round of AUSTRALIA

So nice driving back to Perth, stopping once in a while to view the beautiful spring flowers. We are getting nearer to Perth, few hours to go... Leaving Australia so soon, going New Zealand so soon too!

Pandani plant..

Western Australia's Kangaroo Paw plant..

Lancelin.. Wanted to do some sand boarding here, but unfortunately it rained yesterday so the sand is quite damp... so we just gave up the hope to sand board...

Arrive Perth FINALLY!!

Stayed at the central caravan park for $39 power site since we need to wash our car. Staying in the caravan park is much more convenient because there is water supply just beside our tent site and we can put all our stuff out at the camp. With only 11 days left in Australia, hopefully we can sell all our stuff very soon and have time to update our blog!


FULL of stuff...

We took about 2 hours to wash Koala inside out! All the dirt and sand accumulated for a year have now gone! The first time Koala had a 'spa treatment' from us! Wow, looks new still, despite the large crack in the windscreen  :p So we took the latest photo of Koala to post on the net for sale.

So the next day, we went to the state library and encounter the same problem again, where to park our car? It is always a trouble to bring the car to city, but we need to in case somebody wants to view the car after we post it online. Well, the only way is to pay!

We post our ad on gumtree (the most popular website in OZ) and received many calls immediately. The first two interested buyer came and is quite detailed at viewing the car. After seeing the crack on the mirror and hail storm damage, they didn't bother to test drive Koala.

Well, our Koala had done a good job for us, accompanying us for the last one year, doing more than 30,000kms, bringing us through dirt road (that's how it got a crack) and the beautiful country of Oz. We had replaced 3 new tyres and our selling price is $2200. Negotiable =)

Later in the evening few people arranged to view Koala at the caravan park. The first buyer got lost and couldn't find our place. He's from Africa and don't speak fluent english, really hard to understand him. So the second appointment came and test drive the car, everything went well and we sold the car at $2000. Wow, that was quick. After half an hour, the African guy sms us that he arrived our place. But too bad, we just sold the car. He was so desperate to buy the car that he offered $2500. Gosh, we let him come in to view the car (we feel so bad because he had lost his way here and came only after an hour which we thought he had given up coming, so we let him view the car, and also because we’re attracted at $2500). But once he saw the hail damage, he said No. Although he smiled at us when leaving, that poor guy cursed on his way out of the caravan park.

Well…

Back to our car, we have agreed with the buyer to change the vehicle ownership on Monday. So we have two days left with our Koala, it’ll help us the last bit, to move back to the city so we can settle down at a hostel somewhere. 

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