Kings Park

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Kings Park flowers

17th – 19th September 2017

Sunday 17th

It’s lovely to be back in Mt Lawley with Ann and Greg and their family. This morning we did a bike ride around the Swan River stopping for a coffee at Tranby House, one of the oldest buildings (built in 1830) still remaining from the original Swan River settlement.

Morning tea break on our bike ride. Greg, Ann, Denise

In the afternoon we took a drive to Kings Park which is now ablaze with colour as heaps of wildflowers are blooming.

Ann and Greg beside the floral clock at Kings Park.

 

Sculptures in Kings Park. Not that they’re needed – thousands of beautiful flowers blooming now.

Monday 18th

We farewelled Ann and Greg as they left for work this morning, then took the motorhome in for a service. We spent our time at Joondalup Shopping Centre where Annie, another Trakka owner, joined us for coffee and a chat before picking up our smoothly tuned machine and heading for Karrinyup CP for an early night.

Tuesday 19th

Today the motorhome went to the crash repairers for an evaluation. After many photos were taken of the damage we headed off; the quote and a plan for repair to follow, in the fullness of time.

Wildflowers in Kings Park

For lots of wildflower photos CLICK HERE

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A week in Perth

Monday 7th – Monday 14th

This week we’re spending in Perth, one night at the very good Karrinyup CP ($45/n – ouch!), 3 nights at the South Fremantle CP (functional, except for the tepid showers, $32/n) and 3 nights with our good friends Anne and Greg in Mt Lawley.

Anzac monument at Kings Park

The first few days of the week we wandered around Freo, had lunch one day at Little Creatures brewery and enjoyed walks in Kings Park, particularly the Botanical Gardens where many plants are flowering, went to the movies twice (The Magic Pill and The Big Sick), had really good tapas at Leederville and a fabulous dinner at Nina and John’s, which is where Ric and Gill are staying now. A lovely day was also spent at Kings Park.

Boab Tree at Kings Park. The story of the Giant Boab ‘Gija Jumulu’ captured world-wide media coverage during July 2008 as it journeyed over 3,200 kilometres, from Warmun in WA’s Kimberley region, to Kings Park in Perth.
Never before had a mature tree of this nature been transported across such a distance on land. The iconic tree, estimated to be 750 years old, weighs 36 tonnes and stretches 14 metres high and eight metres wide (branch span). Its trunk measures 2.5 metres in diameter.

At Anne and Greg’s we reminisced about the good old days, danced to loud music until the wee hours of the morning, solved the world’s problems, did a top bike ride around the Swan River to East Perth, crossing the Causeway and back again, lunching and coffee-ing on the way. Greg insisted it wouldn’t rain, which would be a miracle as it’s rained on and off for the last 3 weeks, and luckily for him the only time it did rain, and it pelted down then, was when we were in a café. Sunday they took us to the Swan Valley vineyards where we managed to sample our way through FIVE vineyards, lunching at Mandoon Estate.

A day of tasting wines. Steve, Denise, Greg and Ann

Bright and early Monday morning found me boarding a flight to Brisbane to spend 10 days with Laura and Olivia.

West Australia’s state floral emblem. The iconic kangaroo paw.

It seems we only took photos in Kings Park this week – remiss of us. Anyway HERE they are.