North and South

Despite WA apparently having had it's second warmest spring ever recorded, early summer is proving cool and wet: Due to inclement weather we wandered Perth's shopping centre on Friday, before catching the train North to Warwick and the bus to Hilary's Boat Harbour. With strong onshore winds, we sheltered on the boardwalks and walked to a lookout before meeting Gary and Claire for red emperor fish supper at Bella's. The journey back into the city had lots of transit officers in attendance for the Friday night crowd and we then had to shelter at Barrack's Square from a downpour.

On Saturday we went to Fremantle, walked the markets, saw the fishing fleet, took in the Shipwrecks Museum and enjoyed this eclectic mix of Victorian, colonial and modern Australia. The Swan River colony was established here, ahead of the (now) capital city Perth. Then we went North again to Claremont, a very rich suburb where Lamborghini's fight for road space with Range Rovers. We met David for lunch and he gave us a tour of his school nearby, backing onto fantastic sailing waters.