Saturday, 17 August 2013

Perth W.A.



Perth

We arrived in Perth to celebrate the 50th anniversary of our arrival in Freemantle in 1963 on the Oriana.

We later met up with our friends Doug & Shirley who arrived here a few months before us in 1963 and we have kept in touch since. We celebrated our time here by dining out and enjoyed our time with them.

The changes here are quite something, Freeways with the Trains travelling down the middle of them and under the City area, also a Large Tunnel which is a couple of klms long running underneath North Perth, known as the Farmer Freeway, on a whole the freeways and road network system is quite impressive.

Kings Park is in the centre of Perth on the Swan River and from the advantage spot there we could see how much Perth has changed and grown. 

Freemantle was the next stop and again it has also grown so much since our last visit! 
 (Quite easy to get lost for Some!)

 We visited the Maritime Museum at Freemantle wharf, where migrants arrived from many countries by Ship to settle in Australia.

The records of thousands of immigrants’ details have been recorded here, however they have now closed the books to any more applications as they have run out of space to display them.

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