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Perth

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Arrived in Perth late on 3 December, getting to the hotel shortly before midnight.

Fremantle Goal

Fremantle Goal

Perth

Perth

Quokka

Quokka

Spent the  next day exploring the city and some of its museums before going down the  Swan River to Fremantle the next day. This is a very pleasant place with a good Maritime Museum and the fish harbour. The most interesting visit however was to the old Fremantle Goal. Build in the mid-19th century and in service until 1991, it is now a World Heritage Site.

The next day was spent mainly exploring King’s Park and the Botanic Gardens before going into the city to the food market in the evening for something to eat.

Saturday 7 December and a rather lumpy boat trip out to Rottnest Island. Once a penal colony for the aborigines, it is now a holiday island. It is also the only home to significant numbers of the quokka, a small, about the size of a rabbit, marsupial.

Back in Perth, caught up in the Christmas Pageant before returning to the hotel to pack for the train journey to Adelaide, where it appears that the test is not going well for England with what looks like a horrible collapse in the first innings!

A little bit of background

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In order to develop the material and to provide background to what is, hopefully, to come, a series of posts containing images from 2007 to 2012.

So, to begin with 2007.

The first set of images are from a trip to Alaska and the Inside Passage and on to other parts of Canada and including the train from Toronto to Vancouver, repeating a journey made in 1972!

Eldred Island – Inside Passage Alaska
The Spirit of 98
Brown bear
Brown bear
Brown bear
A humpback whale in Frederick Sound in the Inside Passage
A humpback whale in Frederick Sound in the Inside Passage
Orca
Orca
A local
Sailing the Lynn Canal
Near Skagway, early morning
Near Skagway
Johns Hopkins Inlet in Glacier Bay
Margarite Glacier
Margarite Glacier calving
South Sawyer Glacier
Going fishing – Frederick Sound
Inbound in Misty Fjords
Approaching the head of Misty Fjords
Ketchikan – Creek Street
Ketchikan in bloom

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Next, some images from the Canadian Rockies.

Lake Louise
Lake Louise
Lake Louise
Moraine Lake
Moraine Lake
Morain Lake
Along the Icefields Parkway

More from Canada.

And the UK gets in there too!

Derwent Water
Derwent Water
Butterfly

A Starting Point

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This is the first post by the writer in what is likely to be a somewhat irregular commentary on travels at home and abroad.

As such, it not intended as a guide to travel, but rather a collection of notes on and images of encounters, scenes, sites and more. Indeed, anything of interest to the writer, or provokes their interest and curiosity.

So, to begin.

While spending a weekend near Lancaster in the north-west of England I was heading for Arnside at the head of Morecambe Bay and chanced upon the rescue of a couple who had ventured onto the sands to walk their dog and become trapped by the quicksands.

Fortunately for them, the coastguard is well versed in extracting people from the sands, so they were eventually hauled, rather ignominiously, much no doubt to their relief, and that of the watchers!

16 June 2103 – Sandside Rescue
16 June 2013 – Sandside Rescue
16 June 2013 – Sandside Rescue
16 June 2013 – Sandside Rescue

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