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Enjoyable Perth

Wow, Perth is a long way from anywhere, located, as they say, on the other side of Australia, and it took a couple flights to get here. Once there, however, and stay at any of the hotels Perth offers, it will feel like a wonderful, comfortable city. We immediately went to the beach that morning and swam for the first time in the Indian Ocean! We got cleaned up and went to Fremantle taking the train and hung out on the pier for coffee and fish and chips. We went down to the ferry terminal and watched the boats and fed the birds.

At King’s Park there’s essentially a botanical garden and park for the public with nice city views and and you can see the Swan River. We saw many beautiful plants including the Kangaroo Paw. Apparently they are very popular with home gardeners. We spent the rest of the day catching up on museums in Freemantle, and we really liked the shipwreck museum, also known as the Western Australia Museum-Maritime a collection of shipwrecks from that part of Australia. Looks there’s some treacherous water around here given all the exhibits along with a submarine called the HMAS Ovens. When I saw ovens and submarine, I immediately thought of the sandwich and got hungry. There seemed to be a lot of Dutch ships here (some timbers from Dutch ship from 1629! Man, that’s old) and a restored steam engine that sat underwater for over a hundred years and has been restored.

Back downtown, the city is laid out in grid fashion and the Wellington Rail Station and nearby is the entrance to London Court that’s made to look like England from the Tudor period, with jousting knights and bonging clock chimes. There’s beautiful theaters here too, and churches in this beautiful city.

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