Margaret River, Here I Come!

Although the road is smooth enough for a long journey, it's still quite tired when you have to sit in the car for 5 hours. At last, we arrived Margaret River. I have no idea why it is named Margaret River, so don't ask me. Maybe there was once a mermaid called Margaret living in the river. So, the river is named after her. That's just a story made by me in case someone take it seriously.

Our first stop, The Margaret River Chocolate Company.

Look at those chocolate. Yummy!

We got a chance to grab some chocolate for tasting purpose. Of course, not the one shown above.

Lots of chocolate products.

Not only chocolate products, but also their merchandise.

This is one of the best place we have visited in Margaret River because we got the chance to grab as many chocolate as we can. But of course, you will get 'paiseh' when everyone is looking at you. Somemore, the chocolate will melt in your hand, not in your mouth so you cannot take too much. ;)

Candy Cow, a candy shop with cow as it's mascot was our next stop.

Candy Cow's merchandise. "LELONG!"

Heart shaped lollies.

We stopped by an organic vege farm after that and we saw this.

Shirley, the cute, huge pig.

Does she look cute? She loves to eat. And I mean it. The owner gave us some grapes for us to feed her and she ate it all.

It's getting late after that. We went to look for our motel, Vintages Motel which is just 5 minutes from the Margaret River city, before we check into it. Although nothing special about this motel, the staff are friendly and I highly recommend this motel to anyone who is first timer to Margaret River.

One of the room.

After settling down, our tummy started to rumble. FOOD FOOD FOOD! That's what we want. Everyone was tired after a long day trip. So we decided to go to a restaurant and enjoy our first night at Margaret River. After asking the staff of the motel, we decided to go to Waves Seafood and Grill which is walking distance from our motel. They offer the little lobster, which is known as marrons, and we wanted to taste that since most of my friends recomment a MUST on that.

Pretty good environment for dinner.

I want food, I want food! I ordered "Texas T-Bone" (steak and sausages with bacon, together with chips and salad) and a shared serve of marron (shared with Yoong and Henry). Henry ordered something like salmon with rice. Yoong ordered the same meal as mine. While James and Elizabeth shared the chilli mussels and crabs and marron.

The famous, marrons.

Chilli mussels and crabs.

"Texas T-Bone".

Oh my God. My saliva is dripping now while looking at the photos. The marrons turned out to be not that nice as the sauce they served contains too much coconut milk. I like my "Texas T-Bone" since it's the biggest potion among all the other dishes and it tasted real delicious. Two thumbs up for the "Texas T-Bone."

Finished everything. T-shaped bone, do you notice?

This is my first proper western meal since I came to Perth three years ago. I think Yoong and I were really full after that meal but not the others. They had a smaller portion of meals compared to us.

Quite satisfied with the dinner I had. The staff were friendly. The service was good. The meal was delicious. But.....

After 10% discount, Aud$168.75 for 5 persons!

look at the receipt! Wahlan! It costed us Aud$168.75 for a dinner and I had to pay about Aud$37! It is approximately RM100 (according to the exchange rate on 22nd April 2006). That's the most expensive meal I have ever had in Perth. Or maybe my 20 years living in this earth (of course using Ringgit currency to compare). But, once in a while, my baba won't killed me because of this eh?

That's basically what happened on the first day of Margaret River. 2 more days and 1 more night to go....

On The Way to Margaret River

Before I started to write something in this blog, I travelled down south Western Australia. Margaret River is the exact name. It is about 300 km from Perth. Went there with my housemates, James and Henry, together with Yoong, a friend of mine and James' girlfriend, Elizabeth.

Along the way, we stopped at 2 small towns namely, Mandurah and Bunbury to take a break. Mandurah is quite a well known town (although it's quite small) for its "ketam-ing" (crabbing) activities.

Roundabout clock.

Jetty which leads to some of the buildings.

Great place for photo session especially for couples.

Huge cock pelican welcomes us.

Everything goes fine until I saw this.

Parking sign inside the river!

*Sigh* Vandalism is everywhere to destroy the beauty of the towns. Or maybe not? Is that a parking sign for the boats? *Scratching my head*

From there, we continued our journey to the south. Listening to the music, taking a nap, chit chatting, food and drinks and sight seeing are some of the activities in the car besides waiting for the next stop to visit the toilet. As time goes, we reached our next destination, Bunbury. We stopped to ask for directions to guide us to Margaret River.

I glanced around Bunbury town and did not find anything special to take a photo of. "Cannot be!" I told myself. And indeed, before I left Bunbury to continue the journey, I found this.

Does that look quite familiar to you? If not, see below

Yeah! It looks quite similar to this flinstones' car, don't you think so? I find it quite cool! Maybe you can drift with it just like what Takumi did in Initial-D! ;P

The next entry will be Margaret River, the main destination.

First Blog, First Post!

After reading some of the blogs around the World Wide Web (WWW) such as www.kennysia.com and www.sixthseal.com ,

Stolen Adapted from www.kennysia.com and www.sixthseal.com

I am finally inspired to start one for myself. This blog will be quite a simple one as indicated on the description of the blog which is "Not so complicated...". Everything is simple! Many will ask, "WHY Kok a doodle?" The answer is: As I have no idea what to write at first, so,I thought of the word "doodle" which means a figure, design or scribble drawn or written absent-mindedly (since one of my friend with the name Jono a.k.a. Botak has been calling me that and I think it suits this blog) and finally I decided to name it www.COCKaDoodle.com www.kokadoodle.blogspot.com

Anyway, let me introduce myself in case anyone who happens to read this blog and does want to know me or maybe want to keep in touch with me! Back to the good old days of kindergarthen, primary school and secondary school which we get to introduce ourselves during the first day of school. My surname is Law and my first name is Kok Wei from Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia. As there is Christian name-less for me, there are loads of names given to me but the most popular among friends are Kok (a.k.a. Cock).

Do I look like this, seriously?

Any names will do for me actually. As long as I know you are referring to me :) Currently a third year student of The University of Western Australia (UWA), Perth, majoring in Mechanical Engineering. Main interests including photos taking, travelling, cooking and ball games (not those type of ball games ok?!;)).

The University of Western Australia, Perth

Before I forgot, if anyone found any posts, photos, words or anything offensive, please let me know and I'll take it off. And if you would like to download any photos or anything, please let me know before you do so. Thanks! :)

To stop the long winding introduction, I'll start the next post as soon as possible about my trip down Margaret River (south Western Australia). I'm dread tired to write one now....

FINALLY, let me present to you......