Currently back home!
Today we went to the Pinnacles Desert. It was hot and quite windy and the sand was yellow/orange. There were pointy rocks and rocks of all shapes and sizes. They were fragile and delicate and could have been a petrified forest.
We also saw an emu walking around and a lizard!
On the way home we stopped at a lake which had thrombolites. They are organisms that are estimated to be over 3000 years old.
Today we went to the huge sand dunes. We went sandboarding. It was fun. We had to pull the board up to the top then we sat on it and slid all the way down. It felt fast. Sometimes I fell off and rolled all the way down.
In the morning we went to Hillarys Boat Harbour. We swam out to a platform. It was far out and very deep. On the platform there was a slide.
After lunch we picked up mummy from the train station and drove up to Lancelin. We walked on a beach and jumped off the pier on to the sand.
By huge coincidence our dates for visiting Perth and Western Australia coincided with the annual Motor Neuron Disease conference being held in Perth.
I was very excited when I first realised this months ago and booked my ticket to attend. So for 4 days this week I have commuted into the city centre and attended the Allied Health Professions (AHP) day and the main medical and research conference.
I’ve learnt such a lot about current research in current practice, cause and treatment of MND: when I return to the UK I’ll hopefully be able to share lots of interesting information with my fellow AHPs at Airedale NHS Trust.
I was thrilled to see Emily Plowman presenting as I have been following her research and trying to promote it in clinical practice within my West Yorkshire networks.
And it was lovely one lunch time to be able to go out and meet Mike and the kids for a brief play before heading back in!
I met some great people during the conference, one doctor lives in Sydney and we’re hoping to meet up for a walk when we visit there in February! I also bumped into a Consultant Neurologist who I used to work with at Airedale before he emigrated to Australia. He was also at the conference and it was lovely to catch up with him and reminisce! I spent a lot of time at the poster session and through good luck managed to get a personal explanation from Nora who went on to win the Biomedical Poster Prize.
On 4/12/19 it was the innaugral Global Walk to D’Feet MND, raising awareness with a sea of MND t-shirts walking 5 Kms along the Swan River! Martha joined me for the walk and was my special reporter on the spot!
We got a train in to Perth city centre and had lunch. Then we went to a fire station. We dressed up as firemen and then went in a fire engine. There was a climbing wall and a fireman’s pole.
Next we went to a water park at Elizabeth Quay. We got very wet. There was also steam.
After that I went on a 3 and a half mile walk with mummy.
Today we went to Fremantle Prison. It is a stone prison and is no longer in use. We got a tour to show us the cells and inside the building. There was also a chapel and a library.
Today we drove to Mandurah and played on the beach with Isaac. Then some people helped us catch crabs. In the evening we got on a pirate ship and saw pretty Christmas lights. We got a pirate hat and a glow stick. We shouted ‘ahoy!’ to every boat that went past.
