Maylands Foreshore | Good Friday

Maylands is located four kilometres northeast of Perth on the Swan River. It is also home for the next 10 days.

So whilst my boy was flying people around Western Australia (for the first time!) I did some exploring. 

Impressed by the intensity of colour in Western Australia Dirt more orange and water more blue.

[The Swan River]

[Orange]                           [Green]                           [Blue]

[Tranby House] Constructed by Joseph Hardey in 1839

Rottnest Island | A Photo Diary

Rottnest Island | Thursday 28 March 2013 

 Known to local Aboriginal people as Wadjemup, the Island is believed to be a place of spirits and is of significance to Aboriginal communities

 

Rottnest Island got its name in 1696 when Willem de Vlamingh landed there and found an animal that was a 'kind of rat, as big as a common cat'. He called the island "Rottnest" which literally means 'Rats Nest'. We know these a small marsupials today as quokkas