Heard so much about Purf... (sorry let me get my tongue in the right position...) Perth. About its beauty, its cleanliness, its wide streets, its beautiful beaches, and how it is the capital city of choice to live in Australia. We must be getting more cynical as we go on our trip because while we dont deny any of these above claims, it just didn't blow us away the way we expected it to. We put it down to our love of history (having grown up in the gold town of Ballarat), we look for the historical old buildings in the towns and cities we visit, and the city of Perth itself just didnt have many. It was stately, new, clean, probably almost sparkly but just didnt have the character we found in Adelaide and Melbourne. The adjoining suburbs of Subiaco and Fremantle were much more to our liking but we hadn't planned on spending too much time in these places with our main focus being Perth itself. But all that said we still had a fun time.
After ringing 3 caravan parks with no luck as all full, we got into one in Swan Valley, famous for being the winery place of Perth. We got a lovely big site with awesome views of a huge overhead powerline and we had the pleasure of being right next to the flight path of the departures and arrivals at Perths Airport... ahh the serenity...
We had an enjoyable stroll in the city centre, visited Sci-tech - a 'hands-on' science based centre with over 160 hands on discovery items (the kids and Mark and I all had a ball here), and had an enjoyable drive around Kings Park and loved the views over the city and were amazed at the natural bushland right in the middle of the city. We visited all the famous beaches, Scarsborough, Cottesloe, Hillary's harbour, they were lovely and also very busy ( the temp had been in the high 30's for the past week). We had the pleasure of visiting one of Marks old work mates Raymes from Alex Secondary College and were spoilt to be in a real house, and sat at a real table and watched a real television!! In fact, and in Raymes style, we watched some of the Oscar's on a huge projector screen. Thanks Rames it was a pleasure!
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