WA Experience

Hi All,

Have been back a week from a conference in Fremantle (with a couple of days R&R thrown in for good measure). Had a day walking through Kings Park (41 degrees that day) and had an interesting guided talk of the native flora in the park. Then a wonderful day on Rottnest, cycling around the island, seeing the clear water - but too cold to swim for us northerners - and visiting the gun emplacement - protection during the war - seeing the quokkas and then taking the last ferry back to Fremantle. A couple of days of conference for Graham and I did some catching up with office work.

On Friday afternoon we did a tour of the tunnels under Fremantle prison, not escape tunnels but water tunnels for the early town water supply. Very interesting. Then on Saturday we hired bikes from Perth to ride to the Swan Valley - got a bit lost on the way but it was very pretty riding along the Swan River for at least part of the trip. We visited a couple of boutique wineries, as well as the Margaret River Chocolates and tasted some honey from a stand on the side of the road. Once again quite a warm day but not as bad as the early part of the week.

Along with some good food and plenty of the WA wines, and beers, we had an enjoyable week.
Now back at the hard slog until the Christmas break.

Bron & Graham