A leisurely start to the day saw us reversing our route from the airport – ferry to Elizabeth Quay, train to Redcliffe (changing at Perth Central) and bus to the airport ….. An easy run which meant that we were a couple of hours early at the airport. Turns out that the flight caterers were not as a ahead of the game as us and the flight ended up leaving...
Continuing the theme of syllabally-challenged names, today we went to Freo – perhaps better known as Fremantle. This vernacular diminutive – Freo – is what most locals call the port at the mouth of the Swan River. We had been through on the ferry to Rotto yesterday, but from the water it looked fairly unprepossessing – mainly just port-like...
Today we decided to have a day out to Rottnest Island. However, never ones to waste time with excess syllables, the locals simply call it Rotto. Rottnest Island is about 11 miles to the west of Fremantle, so to get there we picked up the Rottnest Express ferry (Go Rotto!) from Barrack Street jetty at 8.45. This took us on a great run down the beautiful Swan River for...
We woke far too early – hardly surprising given the jet lag, but with a nice sunny (and hot!) day in prospect we decided to head off early. We took the very handy ferry from South Perth across to Elizabeth Quay which is very handy for the city. Our destination though was Kings Park, just to the west of the city centre. Kings Park is one of the largest inner...
We rashly decided on this occasion to take the non-stop flight to Perth. Slightly alarmingly, when you look at the timings, it appears to take over 24 hours and the thought of a day in the same seat didn’t really appeal. However, once you take account of the time difference, it comes down to sixteen and a half hours – not quite so bad. Even so, wedged in...