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| (24th Sept 2010) Louise at a lookout over Bunbury (west coast of W.A) |
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| (20th Sept) Louise at the bell tower in the Perth CBD |
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| (23rd Sept) Matt at the Perth Mint trying to lift a replica of the worlds largest gold nugget ever found called 'The Welcome Stranger' |
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| (22nd Sept) Inside the now defunct Fremantle maximum security jail, which was still operating up until 1991. |
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| This is where you spent your whole day with 150 other inmates, rain,hail or shine, unless you had a job in the jail working in the gardens, Kitchen, Boiler room or the like; Grim eh? |
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| One of the wings inside the jail which had three floors to each wing , the jail held a total of 1000 inmates. |
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| Your cell please sir, which includes a slop bucket for you know what! Not a bad room to spend a sentence for life... The temperatures inside the cells during the day could reach between 40-50C depending what floor you were stuck on. |
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| The Gallows room - where 44 inmates were hung, the last one being in 1968, it was quite an eerie place, some people could not walk inside to have a look |
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| Outside the Gaol before entering at my own risk! |
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| (25th Sept) Louise at the Wellington dam catchment, which was situated 20km inland from Bunbury WA Hi All, It's Matt here putting in another blog for your perusal, on making this blog I said to Louise, "we only took a couple of photos of Perth" which you have seen above. My excuse is, we really enjoyed Perth and got caught up in the moment and basically had our heads up our bottoms! My sincere apologies for not taking many lovely photos of Perth. Its a great place... Having now conquered all the capital cities and territories of Australia, it was probably the best of the lot, and I must say, even without still seeing the whole state yet, WA is probably the most diverse, after all why wouldn't it be, it stretches the whole length of the country giving it everything from Deserts, Coral reefs with pure white sandy beaches and crystal clear water to snorkel in and to whales and dolphins watch, to lush green forests and pasture with sheep and cattle grazing in the sundrenched climate. I Love it... We are off to Margaret River tomorrow, which is the wine capital of W.A and a few cellar doors will be open for our enjoyment; we are thinking of doing a tour around the vineyards but as its Sunday tomorrow that may not be on; we shall see; they also have a few micro breweries as well as wine. We are currently parked up in the harbour at Bunbury, we spent last night here on the west side and as it has a large car park, several of the locals decided to come and do burn outs at 3am; Louise slept through the whole thing of course, so we have come to the other side that has one skinny road and water on both sides; as its Sat night we are hoping this will not be the road the local rev heads want to use.., we went for a lovely run on the beach here early (7am) this morning, and got chatting to a lady who is a local environment teacher and she was able to explain what all these balls of blond hair the size of golf balls were on the beach; turned out they are a type of hairy seaweed that gets tossed around by the water and dumped on the beach; So glad we found someone who knew all about it... We also found a dead water rat that was washed up, it was the size of a Yorkshire terrier - I kid you not... ya never know what will wash up... Anyways I shall close now... We love to read yr comments, so please leave some - we welcome any feedback... kind regards to all.... Louise and Matt xxx |
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