On Friday Jean took us to King’s Park, an amazing and wonderful public park in Perth. The have a terrific botanical garden that showcases the various regions of Western Australia. We thoroughly enjoyed the wide variety of flora, and all the amazing birds we saw. And the views of Perth from the park are astonishing! After our walk around, we went into their gallery of local art and found a perfect Fremantle print for Eileen - it has all the right places on it and will look splendid in their home.
After the park we went back to Fremantle and went to the Fremantle Markets. It reminded us of a small scale Pike Place Market. Fremantle/Perth and Seattle are much alike, having been started at about the same time. Western Australia also has the same problems with Eastern Australia that we in the Western US have with the East. Here’s a little article about it here: https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/31138973/perth-spurned-by-eastern-states/ (I couldn't get this to go live, so paste in your browser.)
The markets were a lot of fun. We found a shark soft toy for Nico (grandson age 8) and some patches, and a fun top for me. We had samosas that were very good as well.
That evening Larry and I went back to Barque for another wonderful meal, but we skipped the big fish this time!
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