Wave Rock, WA

Bruce Rock

Ruby red flowers shine like jewels on the otherwise barren rock.

Wave Rock

Had a great time on this road trip looking at rocks that just rise like giants out of the flat landscape, to give important lookout points to survey the land by the Aboriginal people.

Day Out at Scitech

View from Scitech

Recycled marine sculptures by Calvin Chee and Miles Noel 2009

Noongar Aboriginal Constellations

Have great days out at Scitech, my eldest has become so interested in science since shes been visiting regularly, shes got excellent marks at school. But Scitech also has some very interesting art works there too.

Sunset at Shelley Beach

The light in Perth is just incredible, when the sun sets the sky moves through layers of colour, and you think it cant get better than this, every night stunning visuals from the reflection on the water. I love coming here in the evening, to cook our dinner and watch the greatest show on earth.

Heavenly Heathcote Point, Applecross,Perth, WA

Sunset views

Ship Themed play area

Memorial to actor Heath Ledger, he had a special connection to this place.

This is one of my favourite local places to visit. Its only down the road for us to visit the Swan River with super views of Wayland Bay and Melville Water, great cafe and ship shaped play area. Its like a mini village, with a clock tower and art gallery, in what used to be a hospital for the mentally ill, right up to 1994. The land was originally part of the Aboriginal tribal lands where the Beeliar people lived and hunted before 1827, when Captain James Stirling set up a garden to test the soil but favoured Perth for the capital city. He named the site after Midshipman G.C Heathcote - said to be the first Europen to set foot there.

Rottnest Island Cemetries

The original European white settlers of Rottnest are laid to rest in a marked graveyard, where sandstone headstones have been carved by hand for their loved ones.

In marked contrast, the Aboriginal prisoners taken here to serve sentence and work on the island for the Europeans, were buried in this wooded area of the island. It was only been acknowledged as sacred ground in the early 90's.