Perth City Centre |
Redeveloped Elizabeth Quay Area |
Elizabeth Quay Bridge |
Elizabeth Quay |
Bell Tower - contains the royal bells of London's St Martin-in-the-Fields - oldest bell is dated 1550 |
Great sculptures at Stirling Gardens |
St George's Cathedral |
Modern, colourful sculpture |
Art Gallery of Western Australia |
Sidney Nolan - Table top mountain |
Lucian Freud - Naked man with rat |
LS Lowry - The rival candidate |
Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore sculptures |
Aboriginal Art |
Aboriginal Art |
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa - Bushfire Dreaming |
Auguste Rodin - Adam |
King's Park - Dragon Tree |
View of Perth Waterfront from King's Park |
Botanic Garden |
Interesting tree |
Boab Tree and Jackie looking the other way |
Banksia - love the colour |
Walkway that takes you up to the canopy of a stand of eucalypts |
Perth Mint - built 1899 |
Gold was discovered inland in the 1890s |
The world's largest coin - 1 Tonne Gold Coin |
Australian Kangaroo - worth $88million |
Golden Beauty nugget - 11.46kg |
The Golden Stonefish nugget - 7.2kg |
A gold pour |
Pouring gold into a mould |
Here's the result |
City Farm Market |
Growing veg in the city |
Saturday Market - great fruit & veg, breakfast and vibe |
Fremantle - Western Australian Museum - Maritime |
Australia II - won the America's Cup in 1983 (ending 132 years of American dominance) |
Megamouth Shark |
Aboriginal Bark Canoe |
The first terminal Peter worked on 40 years ago - memories |
Australian Sailor sculpture |
HMAS Ovens |
Round House - 1830 - this is WA's oldest surviving buliding |
Pete and the one o'clock gun |
Bathers Beach |
Art sculptures are dotted around the waterfront |
Colourful... |
...and cute |
Fisherman's Wharf |
Little Creatures Brewery |
Little Creatures tasting paddle |
Heritage buildings are dotted around Fremantle |
Fremantle Markets |
Opened in 1897 |
Selling fruit & veg... |
...and lots of other things |
Another historic building |
Women's T20 World Cup - cricket (in case you don't know) |
It's England v South Africa |
National Anthems |
England are first to bat |
We can just about work out the scoring (we don't know much about cricket) |
Come on England |
England's Barmy Army - we got tickets for the English zone |
Oh no, is she out? |
Replay |
Phew - she's not out |
South Africa now in to bat |
Attendance - not a big crowd - glad we went along |
Happy South African fans |
South Africa win |