Pics: Fremantle wterfront, Maritime Museum, stern of the Batavia, Fremantle cafes
Sunny and warm! Mark got up early and drove off to investigate some local birding sites. Bob and I slept in until eight. Cooked up some breakfast and Mark returned with some great shots of the sun rising behind Perth.
Bob and I set off for Fremantle about eleven and easily found parking at the harbor. Walked over to the Maritime Museum Shipwreck Gallery which has a wonderful exhibit of the recovery of the wreck of the Batavia, a Dutch ship that hit a reef in 1629 off the coast near where Geraldton is today. The 300+ passengers were stranded on two small islands while the captain and officers went off in a small boat to Java to get help. When the commander returned months later, he found soldiers on one island and mutineers on the other with a few enslaved survivors and evidence that the mutineers had murdered ~120 others. Quite a gruesome tale, but fascinating to see how timbers, canons, pottery, etc were found and reassembled 300 years later.
We walked around the downtown of this pretty city full of tourists and locals, and found an internet café where I found out that Phebe, Curry and Hilary had taken care of our plumbing problems and we will be able to take a hot shower when we get home! Many thanks to all!!
We drove back to our trailer, trying and failing to find diesel on a Sunday. We watched Fox Sports for a while as Perth was hosting international air racing: small planes competing for the best time for going horizontally and vertically through a complicated series of inflated pylons placed throughout the wide Swan. Quite a sight and the best possible weather conditions for showing off Perth/Fremantle. Check it out on TV Sunday.
We drove back downtown at six and wandered by the myriad of crowded sidewalk cafes, finally choosing Sandino’s where we started out by sharing half a kilo of chili mussels that was fabulous with lots of spicy tomato sauce. We followed that with a Capsicum/Italian Sausage pizza which was good but a little weird with pepperoni-like sausage and a Caesar salad. Our waitress started out by being very snippy and gave Bob a withering look when he asked for more napkins with the mussel dish, but gradually warmed up to us and was quite cheery by the time we left. We got back to our car and drove to our trailer, packed up and went to bed,
We walked around the downtown of this pretty city full of tourists and locals, and found an internet café where I found out that Phebe, Curry and Hilary had taken care of our plumbing problems and we will be able to take a hot shower when we get home! Many thanks to all!!
We drove back to our trailer, trying and failing to find diesel on a Sunday. We watched Fox Sports for a while as Perth was hosting international air racing: small planes competing for the best time for going horizontally and vertically through a complicated series of inflated pylons placed throughout the wide Swan. Quite a sight and the best possible weather conditions for showing off Perth/Fremantle. Check it out on TV Sunday.
We drove back downtown at six and wandered by the myriad of crowded sidewalk cafes, finally choosing Sandino’s where we started out by sharing half a kilo of chili mussels that was fabulous with lots of spicy tomato sauce. We followed that with a Capsicum/Italian Sausage pizza which was good but a little weird with pepperoni-like sausage and a Caesar salad. Our waitress started out by being very snippy and gave Bob a withering look when he asked for more napkins with the mussel dish, but gradually warmed up to us and was quite cheery by the time we left. We got back to our car and drove to our trailer, packed up and went to bed,
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