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    Also from the front door, looking across the street and the wonderful Monument Hill park.: by flyted, Views[432]
         		 Another beautiful day in Western Australia. This is the view from the front door of the apartment, looking across to Monument Hill, the dock cranes of Fremantle and the Indian Ocean in the distance.: by flyted, Views[535]
         		 A cannon doing its duty in front of the Round House. It is fired every day at 1pm so mariners can set their watches.: by flyted, Views[776]
         		 A marine chart of the Fremantle area, posted outside in front of the Round House, showing the Swan River entering the Indian Ocean at the top-right, Garden Island the long narrow island towards the bottom, and Rottnest Island over on the top-left side.: by flyted, Views[1232]
         		 The Round House, the oldest remaining intact building in Western Australia and the first permanent building in Fremantle/Perth. It was first built as a jail in 1831. Later on it became a regular police station and nowadays is a small museum with great views over Freo and the harbour.: by flyted, Views[839]
     
    Looking out over some of the port buildings to the Western Australia Maritime Museum and its distinctive roof. The Maritime Museum houses Australia II, the winner of the 1983 Americas Cup yacht race, and the first non-American boat to win the race since its founding in 1851.: by flyted, Views[600]
         		 Bathers Beach, the old swimming hole in Freo, still open but a little scummy.: by flyted, Views[662]
         		 More detail on Freo, with the Town Hall clock sticking up centre-left and the Western Australia Maritime Museum in the distance with the curved white roof, behind the tower of Fremantle Harbour Control.: by flyted, Views[560]
         		 The monument on Monument Hill, Fremantle's war memorial.: by flyted, Views[865]
         		 Garden Island in the distance, one of the islands just off-shore from Fremantle.: by flyted, Views[643]
     
    Looking mostly north, the Perth Hills in the distance. The office towers of Perth CBD would be just a bit farther over to the right.: by flyted, Views[561]
         		 View over Fremantle from Monument Hill, across the street from my new home.: by flyted, Views[728]
         		 View down Hay St. past the Theatre towards William Street and Hay St. Mall.: by flyted, Views[635]
         		 His Majesty's Theatre on Hay Street, the largest theatre in Australia when opened in 1904. It has mostly featured dramatic theatre over the years, but The Beatles played here in 1964. Today it is home to the West Australia Opera and the West Australia Ballet.: by flyted, Views[735]
         		 Wesley Church, at the corner of William and Hay Streets, one of the few surviving 19th century buildings in Perth. It was opened as a Methodist Church in 1870.: by flyted, Views[1775]
     
    Hay Street looking the other way, a typical leafy, park-filled scene in Perth.: by flyted, Views[629]
         		 The Hay Street Mall off of William St, in the heart of the CBD. Hay Street and parallel Murray Street are both blocked off to traffic and buses, leaving a huge area two blocks wide and three blocks long completely pedestrianised, right in the heart of Perth.: by flyted, Views[1214]
         		 Awesome – a free exhibit on AC/DC at the Museum, featuring Perth's own Bon Scott, who grew up in Fremantle. It was really well done, lots of iconic genuine articles and old video clips from the band.: by flyted, Views[934]
         		 The walkway through the Cultural Centre, leading to Beaufort Street on the far (eastern) side of the square. The Western Australian Museum is on the left.: by flyted, Views[503]
         		 Formerly the Perth Boys' School, built in 1896, this became the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1988.: by flyted, Views[558]
     
    The grounds of the Perth Cultural Centre, a wonderful meeting spot in Northbridge, but barely 5 minutes' walk to the heart of the CBD, where the tall buildings are. The Cultural Centre features the WA State Library on the right, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, in the red brick building, as well as the State Theatre of Western Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, and the Western Australian Museum.: by flyted, Views[1055]
         		 The Bell Tower at the corner of William & Francis Streets, originally built in 1937 at a nearby convent, but taken apart and rebuilt here, brick by brick, in 1991, to add some flavour to the street scape.: by flyted, Views[579]
         		 Opposite way along William Street, the historic Bell Tower on the left and one of the hostels behind that, in the fancy building.: by flyted, Views[505]
         		 William Street, one of the main north-south thoroughfares in Perth, leading from the heart of the city through Northbridge and north out to the suburbs. This is looking south down William Street towards the city centre. The Cultural Centre would be on the left just behind the buildings.: by flyted, Views[537]
         		 Moving further down James Street towards the Perth Cultural Centre at the end of the road.: by flyted, Views[996]
     
    Lake Street, another small street in the trendy area of Northbridge.: by flyted, Views[433]
         		 A close-up of the roundabout, but wait, what does it say on that screen in the background? I had no idea that was there when I took the picture. It's in a little park that shows random TV shows, documentaries, live events and so on. I guess on this day, they knew I was coming.: by flyted, Views[513]
         		 A teeny roundabout on James St., arched over by an interesting piece of public art. Even at slow speeds, car tyres would squeal on the cobblestone road as they spun around the circle.: by flyted, Views[538]
         		 James Street in Northbridge, an inner-city suburb just north of Perth CBD, in fact about a 2 minute walk over the train tracks. It promotes itself as a separate area though from Perth. Northbridge is known as the bar and restaurant hub of Perth, as well as backpacker-central, with at least a dozen hostels within a few small blocks of each other. : by flyted, Views[666]
         		 The newest Australian coin in circulation, a 20 cent piece: “Miss Catherine Middleton and HRH Prince William.” Shiny.: by flyted, Views[1317]
     
    Further parkland along the Swan River, leading up to The Narrows, where the Swan really opens up into a wide lake. Kings Park is through the trees on the right. Most days in Perth are pretty much like this: sunny, blue sky, 20 degrees, wonderful. Although there can be periods of heavy rain in the winter, the city is one of the sunniest in Australia, getting around 3,000 hours of sunshine per year.: by flyted, Views[720]
         		 A set of the city's free exercise equipment, set up along a biking/jogging path in the park next to the river. It's a very popular idea which apparently is spreading quickly around the world, but I think started in Europe.: by flyted, Views[1737]
         		 The Swan River looking east towards the Perth Hills in the distance. The Swan Bells, with their brown copper base and glass spire are on the left. The bells are self-described as “the world's largest musical instrument,” and include a set of historic bells from St. Martin-in-the-Fields church in Trafalgar Square, London, which are said to have rung in 1787 when Captain Cook set out on the voyage in which he found Australia.: by flyted, Views[526]
         		 Looking back at the Esplanade gardens towards the city, from close to Kings Park. On the far right is the narrow spire of the Swan Bells, the city's massive carillon.: by flyted, Views[430]
         		 The Esplanade/Alf Curlewis Gardens, part of the network of great parkland sitting between the CBD buildings and the river.: by flyted, Views[1022]
     
    Looking across the Swan River to South Perth.: by flyted, Views[499]
         		 Perth Water on the Swan River, one of the wider lake-like sections of the river, this one directly in front of the CBD. Massive Kings Park is in the distance, on the hill.: by flyted, Views[1248]
         		 Perth CBD, with the 46 story City Square tower under construction.: by flyted, Views[925]
         		 A familiar face in Perth; my profile picture to convince someone to hire me and rent to me ;): by flyted, Views[571]
         		 Jet skiers and 4WDers catching the last light of the day on Cable Beach.: by flyted, Views[505]
     
    A good example of an un-sealed road in the Kimberley Outback, dry now but imagine how it looks during the torrential rains of the wet season.: by flyted, Views[551]
         		 This is with the “sunset” filter on my camera.: by flyted, Views[476]
         		 The last gasp of a brilliant sunset.: by flyted, Views[540]
         		 Modern lighthouse at Gantheaume Point.: by flyted, Views[904]
         		 A fiery glow over the Indian Ocean.: by flyted, Views[447]
     
    Now these footprints are the fake ones, plaster moulds for when the real prints are under water or for those who don't want to climb down to see them.: by flyted, Views[426]
         		 More red soil.: by flyted, Views[314]
         		 Red rocks overlooking the ocean. The dinosaur prints were below these cliffs.: by flyted, Views[355]
         		 A largely complete view of Cable Beach, from Gantheaume Point at its south end.: by flyted, Views[446]
         		 Anastasia's Pool at Gantheaume Point, hand carved by a lighthouse keeper years ago for his wife, but it only fills up in very high tides.: by flyted, Views[812]
     
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