Week 7
Hi everyone, The start of the week wasn’t too great with rain, rain, and more rain, but we managed to get through to Perth. After leaving Margaret River we went to Yarloop and had a look at the Railway Museum there. First of all, we went to the old library, there were books dated back hundreds of years so there was of course no touching. The next building we went to was the saw shed, where the ‘Saw Doctor’ would work. You would’ve needed someone to fix up saws so that you could cut down more trees to make more tracks and clear room. We went to the main shed, where the trains, molds, tools, parts and much more was kept. There used to be four trains around the yard that would shunt carts. Some of the signs in the shed weren’t too comforting. One sign showed the LTI (Lost Time Injury) per year, month, day, and even hour! Another sign said ‘IF YOU DO NOT WEAR SAFTEY GLASSES PLEASE SELECT YOUR GLASS EYES NOW WHILST YOU CAN STILL SEE.’ I don’t think that I would have liked to work there. After leaving Yarloop, and having lunch, we drove to Harvey and visited the Big Orange. Al and I went up with our cameras. From the top, all you could see were oranges. The fields stretched out further than the eye could see. After seeing the Big Orange, we went to stay at the Top Paddock. It was on top of a hill and there were only two cabins and nothing else except amazing views, with a log fire and spa. In the morning, we packed up and drove to an old machinery museum. There, someone was getting out one of the old tractors. He started it up fine the first time, but the second time it took him a couple of minutes. Later that day, we reached Perth, and stayed at Sunmoon Resorts. The next day, was a day of rest, lounging around, walking to the beach, and watching TV, (something that we hadn’t done very often on the trip so far.) | After breakfast the next morning, we went to the library It was six stories tall! We bought a tonne of books there for James. After that, we went to the Perth Museum. We saw old spears, guitars made out of turtle shells and banjos made from armadillo shells, if that’s what you’d call them. We also walked past an AC/DC section, but really it was just an AC/DC temporary gift shop. Next, we went to the dinosaur section where we saw a skeleton of a giant bird, now extinct, that resembled an emu, but it was much, much taller. Also at the museum, we learnt that the earliest horse known, lived over 60 million years ago. It’s front feet had five toes and it’s back had three. One more difference to the average horse, it was about 30 centimetres tall. Don’t ask me how it evolved to it’s current form! The next day, we went to Fremantle’s harbour and watched two cargo ships come in. The little tugboats would rush out, and then the humungous ships would storm into the bay, well, a bit slower than that! After that, we went to a cafe’ further into Fremantle’s city centre and had afternoon tea. Lastly for the day, we took a walk down the streets that are home to some of Fremantle’s historic buildings. For the last day of the week, Ali and got the books and did some work, joy! (sarcasm) And that was our busy seventh week of our journey around Australia. Cameron |
