We arrived in Perth just over two weeks ago now and have been staying most of that time with a friend Hester who lives in East Fremantle. We have stayed a lot longer than planned in this part of WA because the weather has not been very good here. We have been taking advantage of having a house to stay in while we have been waiting for the weather to not only warm up but also fine up. Perth is a really nice city and we have been really lucky because Hester lives only 100m from the Swan River so we have been enjoying lots of walks along the banks of the river. Hester also has 2 skateboards which the boys have made great use of when we have gone for walks and also in the park across the street.
Aidan and Cody have made friends with a lot of the local kids which they have met while riding the skateboards and playing basketball in the park across the road; once again it shows how small a world it is – one of the friend’s parents grew up in Bathurst!
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| Aidan and Cody skateboarding along the banks of the Swan River |
The other things we have done while we have been here include – visiting Kings Park (which was beautiful), we went to a couple of beaches and watched the kite surfers (it was too cold to go for a swim), wandered around Fremantle Markets a couple of times, went to the Maritime Museum to see the Australia II yacht and went for lots of walks along the banks of the Swan River and around Fremantle. Aidan and Cody particularly enjoyed playing a few games of table tennis on the free tables provided in the middle of the Fremantle plaza.
We disappeared from Perth for a few days in the middle of our stay here to head south east to visit another friend down on his property in Darkan. The weather was wet cold and pretty horrible most of the time we were there, but we had a great few days catching up with Jeremy and getting to know his wife and kids. While there we helped muster in the sheep so that they could draft of the ones for sale and the lambs so that they could be processed (vaccinated, tagged, tailed etc). Aidan and Cody really enjoyed helping out with all these jobs. They were also lucky enough to see a calf being born – in the end it had to be pulled out using the ute. They also had a ball getting filthy helping Jaime dig out a rabbit warren, unfortunately there were no rabbits to be found.
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| Aidan & Cody pushing the sheep through the yards |
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| Helping Jeremy choose sheep for market |
We are back in Perth and have given up waiting for the weather to get better, so we are just going make a run for it – we will travel through the south western corner over the next week and if the weather is bad we will just travel quickly.
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