Thursday, 15 September 2016

Our Berth in Perth.

We've been staying with Peter "Rock God" Brown and his wife Fay. Peter and I were in a band together in our early teens, The Pathfinders. His family emigrated when he was sixteen. On our first day we drove north up the coast to Hillary's Boat Harbour. The beaches are big and sandy and the sea is a beautiful blue. Then we met Monique, Luke and Penny for lunch at the famous Cicerello's, a fish and chips establishment at Fremantle, known locally as Freeo. 
On Tuesday we visited Caversham Wildlife Park and got
up close to some indigenous Australian wildlife. And in the evening we got on down with the kids (average age 73) at the Blues Club in Bull Creek.
On Wednesday we headed south to visit the wine country. All the towns and villages, the suburbs around Perth, are surrounded by bush, a scruffy wasteland of scrub. But as we headed into South Western Australia the landscape changed to rolling hills and forestland.
En route we stayed in the frontier town of Bridgetown in a lovely old wooden house being renovated by friends of Peter and Fay's, Ziggy and Rosie. Ziggy's garden has avocados, lemon and grapefruit trees. The weather is wet. Where is the hot and sunny Australian weather I've heard about? We visited three wineries in Margaret River and bought a few bottles of wine, enough to last us until we board the plane to Alice Springs.
And so here we are on Friday, now at Monique and Penny's. Luke is at work, blowing things up at the iron ore mine. And we are about to head into town to buy an edition of Ticket to Ride to feed our addiction to Trains.
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  1. Wastedpapiers15 September 2016 at 22:37

    I guess we were lucky with the weather when we went to Sydney and the Blue Mountains in September several years ago . Nice and sunny most of the time, and not too hot. Sounds like you are finding all the entertainment hot spots though! Why is everybody looking up in that tree?

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  2. Wastedpapiers16 September 2016 at 03:19

    Thanks for the 2nd feline postcard from Japan that arrived today BTW.

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  3. Rob Barratt22 September 2016 at 10:09

    I stayed with my friend Hilary (from Minions days) in Fremantle last year. I later wrote a song called "The Brio in Freo"! I've only performed it once and that was in Bodmin. I really liked it down by by the river in East Freo walking along to Point Walter. Some dolphins came in there suddenly and created a commotion at the riverside to trap fish and the pelicans dived in too. Take care of yourselves.

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