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Day 4 - Cottesloe

28th May 2017

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After a short and appropriately busy stop in Hong Kong we headed back to the airport for the shorter 7.5 hour hop to Perth...

HK to Perth



Nearly there...


Perth arrival 1



Welcome to Perth and our Western Australia trip was about to commence. I do love these 'Welcome to ' signs, it's shame all airports don't have them, but I guess that would mean the place would be choked with tourists like us taking photos...



Perth arrival 2




Our ride for the trip north - not quite as dirt road credible as a rugged, seasoned Land Rover, but we learned to love the Renault Koleos and all our driving was on tarmac - we let the pros do the unsealed roads...

Car 1



In profile - it came back in one piece too, except for a cracked windscreen...

Car 2



Cottesloe

My first return to Cottesloe since 2005, this is the 2017 version of the Norfolk Island pine trees and sea view that had stuck in my mind from that earlier visit...

Cottesloe Road



Eagles versus      Giants

 
We dropped our stuff off at the Cottesloe Beach Hotel and headed to the Subiaco Oval to watch our first AFL game - West Coast Eagles versus Great Western Sydney Giants...

Eagles Stadium


Smiles ahead of trying to learn the rules as the game went along...

Together




A traditional aboriginal performance before kick-off...

Aboriginal 1


 

Aboriginal 2



Off we go, a huge pitch and seats in the lower tier meant that we weren't always a 100% sure how close to goal the action was at the other, but we had a cracking view of the near end...

AFL 1



It ebbed and flowed but eventually finished 90-98 to the Giants...

AFL 2







Dinner at the Indiana Tea House in Cottesloe - still early evening, but we were late arrivals as Cottesloe gets up early and goes to bed early too.

Still time for a delicious barbequed octopus though, probably the nicest octopus I'd ever eaten and I've been bothering cephalopods for many years...


Indiana
 






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Day 1 - London to Hong Kong Day 2 - Hong Kong Big Buddha Day 3 - Hong Kong Victoria Peak
Day 4 - Cottesloe AFL Day 5 - Rottnest Island Day 6 - Pinnacles
Day 7 - Kalbarri NP Day 8 - Denham Hamelin Pool Day 9 - Denham Monkey Mia
Day 10 - Denham Francois Peron NP Day 11 - Denham Aquarium Shell Beach Day 12 - Carnarvon
Day 13 - Exmouth Road Day Day 14 - Exmouth Whale Sharks Day 15 - Exmouth Navy Pier Dive
Day 16 - Bullara Cattle Station Day 17 - Point Samson Day 18 - Broome Road Day
Day 19 - Horizontal Falls Day 20 - Kimberley Geike Gorge Day 21 - Kimberley China Wall
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