Italian Carnival , freo

Freo Italian local community celebrations for carnivale

Beautiful Balingup

Visit to Wagin Heritage Village

Flour Bag Tent

I need to see more of these giant emblems of places in Australia

Lots of lovely shelves of left over bygone grocery products

and drug store pharmaceuticals.

Local dressmakers shop

Wagin Village Tea Room

Handmade washing sink

Mud brick settlers house

This really is a fascinating place and worth a look on our travels in WA. For many years, the community have been collecting their history from the local shops and businesses, schools and public services, and tell the visual history of settlement through everyday objects collected and donated.
They have moved entire buildings such as the wooden school, memorial hall and fire station, or rebuilt them. We spent a great afternoon there with friendly hospitality.

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.

Fabulous Freo

Running to the future, looking to the past
South freo Beach

Found myself in Fremantle again today, after coming on Friday to Spare Parts Puppet theatre. I do absolutely love the place, especially its historic buildings and the place it shares in the the Bride Ships history. Being by the sea, this is the where 50 female immigrants from the Lancashire cotton mills arrived to escape the cotton famine and start new lives in the Swan River colony 1863 .

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Glastonbury Memories

Though not there again this year, Glastonbury holds a fond place in my heart. From age 18 years, half my life Ive been and I can remember that feeling when you arrive near the site. A magical place, even in the 80's when dub reggae & travellers ruled.No one dare have a camera thenand there was no communication to the outside world at all. My best recent Glasto pics .Must one day scan in some real oldies, but they in the Uk.

Perth in Autumn

As I walk home, I can hear the throaty, warbled voice of the magpies and the croaky 'art, art! ' of the crows in the trees. Two dragonflies dance by in front of my eyes, while the sun shines down and shows their shadows on the hot tarmac. Nearby our house, orange red leaves are actually falling from the tree, non native of course. The indigenous old ones are busy shedding their bark in long strips ready to set on fire like a tinder box. Aeroplanes regularly rumble, flying low overhead in their redirected routes to the airport. On the top of the hill, home made swings from old rubber tyres and bottle crates, sway in the breeze. From the corner of Mitchell, Chapman and Duke, in one direction you see the skyscrapers of Perth city and looking the other, the Hills in the country. Always the smell of Eucalyptus on the soft breeze.

Perth Images

Beautiful Trees of Perth

In Our Backgarden

On Kings Park

And City Beach