We live five minutes drive from some of the most beautiful beaches in the world. White sand, clear water, gentle waves suitable for all ages, fish'n'chips and gelato on hand. The water tends towards Sharky but I figure as long as there are a whole bunch of swimmers that look like seals further out than me then I'm fine.
I don't have a pic of the beach we went to yesterday because we were travelling light and quick. Car keys and towels only but it was brilliant.
It's hard to get the kids to come with us; they've never really been part of the beach culture as we pretty much avoided the beaches in Melbourne and Sydney as being substandard (in Sydney, full of rips, flags always ridiculously close together - although we did love Palmie and jumping off the pier at Balmoral) and only really went to the beach on trips back to WA. We managed to convince one child to come with us and he loved it.
I did manage to photograph our beautiful sky yesterday while waiting for burgers in North Fremantle.
After burgers we went to see the Scattered Light installation by Jim Campbell in Kings Park which is there as part of the Perth Festival.
A series of light bulbs strung in a spidery pattern this installation looks like a wall of light from one angle but has depth and was attracting about 100 picnic-goers last night. Note the bride off to the right.
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| Kings Park with the new Brookfield Place tower at centre. Tripod needed next time! |
Our 12yo commented on how pretty Perth was from Kings Park and it struck us that he had never seen this view at night. Those that were not picnicking in front of scattered light were facing this view.
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| Fraser Avenue, Kings Park |
3 comments:
Beautiful! Perth really is a lovely city.
I read your first paragraph to David19 and he laughed. He remembers when we went to viit you in Sydney and said to say hi.
Perth's beaches are unbeatable. Remember how we used to head down to Cott from College late in the afternoon? Perfect.
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