Sophie in Oz!

Well, Australia actually. I have landed in Perth, Western Australia where I am being looked after by a lovely lady called Rochelle, Renée's aunty. On Wednesday we are going for a walk in Kings Park with Stephen, Rochelle's eldest son, and her friend Jean who has a digital camera, so I should have some new photos to post then.

Western Australia is a pretty big place, and is the largest state in Australia (you can see it on the map above). It covers 2.5 million square kilometers (that's 10 times bigger than the UK!!) but a lot of it is desert. Only 2 million people live there (that's 30 times less than the UK!!) - so everyone could have a whole square kilometer of land each, and there'd still be room left over! They mostly live around the edges on the coastline, as there's not a lot of water for people, animals or plants to live in the middle bits.

It's pretty warm here too, about 30 degrees on average at the moment. Rochelle prefers the weather in the UK - she even likes Scotland in winter!

I'm looking forward to going for a walk in the park on Wednesday, and meeting some of Rochelle's collection of owls!