Ok, so about lunchtime we left Cervantes and the same English lad (who we'll call Fred for the sake of the blog, as he became a prominent part of our trip over the next few days and we can't not mention him) that was on the tour with us last night was on our Greyhound bus, but strangely he said he recognised our faces however couldn't place us and asked if we were at his backpackers? We told him that they dropped us at our hotel last night and made reference to The Pinnacles, but still the penny didn't drop? However, whilst waiting for the bus he managed to amuse us (not intentionally though) by doing press ups in a ditch and leaving strange voicemails for the hostels in Geraldton. Funny Guy??

When we arrived in Geraldton the bus dropped us at the tourist info centre, which was adjoining a hostel. This wasn't ours though, so I asked Fred where he was staying as our hostel said they'd pick us up and I thought he could get a life too rather than walk. He couldn't recall the name but when I said 'is it Foreshore?' he said that was also where he was staying. It turned out we had to get a cab, which he shared with us, but it wasn't until we arrived at the hostel that Fred realised he didn't have a room booked here, it was the other hostel from where we'd been dropped off! Foreshore was fully booked so he had to walk back to the other one, which he proceeded to do without a word in our direction. We thought that may be the last we'd see of Fred . . . .

Anyway Geraldton as a place was absolutely terrible and we were here for two nights! It was a Bank Holiday weekend when we were here and everything was 'CLOSED' - I'm not sure everything being open would have made it any better, but atleast we'd have been able to get some supplies! The highlight of Geraldton was Hungry Jacks (the Ozzie version of Burger King), which is really saying something! Actually there was a nice harbour area as you walk out of the town, that seems like it's currently being developed and in 5 years this part will probably be pretty cool, but the rest really needs tearing down and starting again - sorry if anyone that reads this is from Geraldton!

The last day we had quite a few hours to kill before the bus after we'd checked out of the hostel, so we walked around and looked through shop windows and then watched a film at the little cinema - which was open!! Yay!! The rest of the time was passed with about 20 games of cards - the trouble with this is we only know one game and it's getting kind of boring so if anyone can remind us of the rules of some others we'd appreciate it!