Fremantle

I forgot to blog last night, mainly because not a lot happened yesterday. We left Bunbury and travelled to Fremantle where we are staying in a chalet at the Fremantle Village caravan park. It’s definitely better than the motels the last few nights, but not as good as the park in Busselton.


So today we had a quiet morning, went shopping for something for lunch and dinner, then caught a bus into Fremantle for a bit of a look around. They have free buses that run around the city centres in Perth and Fremantle, they’re a great way to have a look around the place. We hopped on a bus at the railway station and went most of the way around the route before getting out at the waterfront where we went for a visit to the Shipwreck Galleries of the WA Museum.

They have a fabulous exhibition of wrecks along the WA coast, and tell the stories of the Dutch explorers who explored the coast in the 17th century. They had a collection of documents and the original plate left by Dirk Hartog, one of the very early explorers. They also have a part of the Batavia hull, along with a lot of artefacts found on the wreck. It’s a very interesting place and we spent a couple of hours looking around, we could have spent even longer, but time was getting on.

We then went for a walk along the waterfront, a coffee at Dome, which is a chain of restaurants all over the place here, more walking along the waterfront then went back into the city and made our way to the railway station to catch the bus home.

Tomorrow we’re going to the Swan Valley with Geraldine and Gordon, which should be most enjoyable.

Les had a call this afternoon to let us know that the Stable has gone into receivership. Ordinarily this would be interesting but not concern us particularly, BUT my bike is there! It had to go in to get a new regulator after it broke down, and wasn’t fixed before we left so we organised to leave it there and pick it up when we get home. I’m going to try ringing there tomorrow and see if anyone answers the phone. Fingers crossed!