2011 Oz Blog # 6 Attadale (Perth)

# 9 Roberts Road Attadale WA

Back Yard

Covered Deck

Living Room

Kitchen

Perth Walking Mall 3 Blocks Sqaure

Bronze Statue

Church in the center of Perth

Stainless Steel Sun Dial

Perth Center

Bell Tower

Leaving on a Cruise to Freemantle 16 Km

Perth Skyline on the Swan River

Cottelsloe Beach (Perths Bondie Beach)

On the Cruise

Another Beach

What a Job to have

Perth Aquarium

At the center of Freemantle

Restored Building

SS Batavia sunk 300+ Years ago

Some of the Cargo, over 300 lives lost

Surfboard Lessons

Freemantle Harbor

Aussie did 3 times around the world non stop

Blog #6 Western Australia 2011-04-27

Our last stay is in Attadale, a residential area between Fremantle on the coast and Perth, 18 km up the Swan River. In the state of Western Australia there are 2.3 million people with 1.7 million of them in this Fremantle/Perth area. It is very diverse and shows many influences of immigrants. An example we enjoyed was the Cappuccino Row with two blocks of coffee houses with outdoor tables of course. We are told this is the Italian influence.

A car-free mall in Perth, gave us a good look at stores, restaurants and souvenir shops. As you will see from the pictures there is quite a spectacular bell tower in Perth on the Swan River. We sat in the park and enjoy the bells. There has been lots to do and see. Some of the highlights were a river cruise from Perth to Fremantle, a fascinating Maritime Museum with actual sail boats that won the Americas cup etc, but especially a partly restored wreck of a Dutch vessel that sank 350 years ago.

Again there are perfect beaches, surfers, boaters and all the things we have learned to expect here. A scenic drive up the coast brought us to a great aquarium. It had a plexiglass tunnel about 10 feet high, with a slowly moving floor. We could just stand there with turtles, sharks, rays, endless brilliant coloured fish swimming above us and beside us. There were even little seahorses.

Again we are very lucky to have a wonderful home to stay in. The back garden is very private as mature trees surround it. Perfect for, guess what, birds of course. A huge tree in a near-by yard had a bright red mystery fruit and finally it must have been ripe as there was a non-stop parade of Rainbow Lorakeets, a medium sized parrot type with more colours than the bird in the Telus ad. It was quite a treat.

On April 12 we flew from Perth to Sydney where we stayed overnight, catching our flight home in the a.m. We left at 10.30AM, and fourteen hours later we ready to nap....but it was 7:30 AM and we were arriving in Vancouver, my Sydney-set watch said midnight, we had got the day back we had lost on the yrip over. After a three hour wait we got the plane to Kamloops. We were very glad to be home 30 hours since we had got out of bed 30 hours earlier!! Took us 3 day's to gey over the jet-lag.

We carry many happy memories from this trip and no regrets so that is a good way to wind things up. Are we glad we did it? Absolutely. Would we do it again? Probably not, unless one of you has found the Fountain of Youth?

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