Bits, bites and boats

From Margaret River we headed to Mandurah, with a blessed stop at Bunbury for a new laptop, yippee!! Life is so much easier with a working laptop, even if it does have windows 8 which is another tool of the devil designed to drive us bonkers :(
1 night in Mandurah at a rather dodgeyville park then  on to Fremantle.
Fremantle turned out to be quite unlike my expectations, was far busier and more citified than I knew. Was blown away by the port (2nd busiest in Aus) and all the containers.
I had a ride on the big ferris wheel for great views, Garry too cool/chickened out.
Next day went to Perth and saw and the beautiful kings Park botanical gardens and the Bell Tower. We also got to see a whole area which we had no intention of visiting thanks to blasted roadworks and detours that took us onto the freeway. Just made it in time for the bell ringing.

The Bell Tower

War Memorial at Kings Park looking over Swan River

The next action packed day was a trip to Rottnest Island. Caught a huge ferry over for the half hour trip, which thankfully was calm because I'm not great with seasickness. There are no cars over there so you can hire bikes, of which there were thousands or you can be sensible like us and take the tour bus.

 Yep, I'm not ashamed to say I did not ride all over the 11km Island, I sat smugly in the airconditioned mini bus instead!

The island is very picturesque with little bays all around, all different, and a seal colony too. The star attraction of Rottnest is the cute little quokkas that wander around all over the island, very tame.

"Quokka you lookin at?"

One of the lovely beaches at Rottnest Is.