Down the West Coast
Every so often the bus slows down to avoid hitting another Kangaroo. Fremantle Prison, housing the convicts of the early Swan River Colony, and Rottnest Island, a popular nature reserve off the coast, were the highlights of my last week in Perth. I then headed south down the coast stopping in Bunbury to see the local dolphins, and Margaret River, the Bordeaux of Western Australia, where some of the country’s finest wines are made. Time for a canoe trip, some bush food and a tour of the wineries before I moved on to the township of Augusta and walked the 6 miles or so out to the lighthuse at the far South Western tip of Australia, Cape Leeuwin, where the Indian Ocean meets the Southern. This is Australia’s Lands’ End, and the terrain has it’s similarities with Cornwall, although it is much bigger and wilder than my childhood home.
Pictures of Fremantle prison and Rottnest Island are all online. The others will be available in a few days.
