Tuesday, June 3, 2008
We arrived in Perth right on time at 0910am and immediately hopped on a tour bus for a quick (2 ½ hours) tour of the city before picking up our rental car. The only place we got off the bus was at King’s Gardens, the botanical gardens of Perth. The Botanical Gardens says that there are approximately 25,000 species of plant life in Western Australia and 75% of those plants grow in grow nowhere else in the world. Yet a lot were recognizable. Hundreds of different eucalypts and hibiscus and roses and although it is almost official winter (June 21) many were blooming joyously.
Our car is a very nice, very non-descript beige something. We almost lost it in the parking lot of the shopping center where we stopped for lunch and to pick up some snacks. Nonetheless, we did finally find it and actually navigate to our B&B in Fremantle.
Fremantle is a great city to walk around. We have parked our car because it’s so easy to get anywhere on foot or on the free (!) CAT (Central Area Transit) buses which run every 10 minutes (!).
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