Wednesday 15/08/2012 Day 52: Perth Road Trip.
We all had a sleep in, as the rain
fell. After the rain had stopped the grey skies remained. Amanda & Ryan
picked up some laundry tokens, luckily we have access to a clothes dryer here.
We fuelled up at a Woolworths Caltex at Forestfield and headed South on the
Kwinana Freeway with Trains running down the middle. We drove through to
Rockingham passed the refineries and onto the esplanade. We drove out to Point
Peron, what a view. The old WWII gun emplacement “Peron Battery” used to contain 2 x 155mm, 2 x 18 pounder Mk IV guns. They had a great
view of Garden Island, which now contains a submarine base and naval fleet. We
had lunch near the boat ramp and then drove up the coast to Freemantle. We were
going to Penguin Island but we are a couple of weeks too early. Amanda &
Les enjoyed Freemantle. We utilised the Red & Blue CAT buses and had a good
look around. We picked up Chocolate supplies at Freemantle Chocolate – highly
recommended. We jumped in the car for the long drive to Cottesloe (8km). We
didn’t realise how close the North Side was. We had a look at the sun dial, jetty,
beach and cruised up and down Marine Pde. The houses here have a great view of
the ocean. We then battled in peak hour traffic under the city on the Graham
Farmer freeway, several other hwy’s Tonkin, Leach, Roe etc and arrived back at
Advent Park. Good to see Brisbane is not the only city with Traffic Jams. We
were fortunate to have perfect weather after the poor start to the day.
Daily Stats:
Distance: 162km, Duration: 7hrs30min, Weather: Rain Early, Sunshine and Cold
Kwinana Freeway + Train Line
Point Peron
Freemantle
Cottesloe
Kwinana Freeway + Train Line
Looking back to Rockingham & Freemantle
Garden Island - warship to the RHS
Walking down from WWII Gun emplacement
Rockingham
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