a Cup of Thoughts (and fingerprints)..: busselton

we went to busselton, small city blessed with beautiful beach, about 230km from perth. it was only a one day trip because we were so fed up with perth :p we leave our apartment at 10.00 and arrived just in time for lunch. we planned this trip just to get the idea of busselton and therapy for noelle and her sound of wave phobia.

you see, in her first weeks, noelle was a sound sleeper. she slept in my arm while i talked to visiting friends with my loud voice and bouncing body because sometimes i laughed out loud. but she didnt stir even a bit. now that she's bigger and older, she hates when her father sneezed loudly (man heavy voice = loud sneeze/cough) or the sound of sirene, people cheering (she screams during ellen show trying to topped the audience!).

and the first time she set foot on a beach was when she was about 7 or 8 months old, and you can tell she hates being in the seashore. she just held me tight and kicking her feet against my body, her body busily moving trying to get me moving as far as possible from water. i thought it was just noelle and her sound-of-waves phobia. and i was right. on other visit to the beach, we did not even touch the water and noelle happily sat on the sand, touching and getting the idea of the beach sand and the wind and the joy of other people on the beach.

but yesterday, she seems to enjoying herself at the beach. she touched the sand, the water brushed her tiny feet and occasionally she touch the water. YAY!!! but i dont want to get my hopes up because i know she act like that because the sea was so calm and the wave just like a whisper.. i really looking forward to visit cottesloe or city beach again before autumn comes.. anyway, the coastal strip was beautiful, clean, fenced by pine trees. the bridge is busselton jetty, a 2,5km walkway and railway from the beach to underwater observing area, museum, souvenirs shop. too bad, the jetty is on construction rebuilding project so that make a reason for us to come again.

glistening water.. lovely lovely beach but next time we have to come early early in the morning to get a crystal clear water. finger crossed!

and here is the famous cow who participate on cow parade all around western australia. this art called "tru blu" by artist voytek kozlowski. i heard the word tru blu aussie and this amusing cow is trully a TRU BLU AUSSIE because it's so aussie!! it was painted in blue and has aussie flag on its left side, and built to mimic a ute, australian name for utility/pick up car. there are another cow on the beach but i forgot to take the picture, the color was like turqoise and has seaweed and fishes painted on it.