A few photos from the last sunset of 2025 taken down at our local beach, Waterman’s Bay. We enjoyed fish and chips with close friends looking out across the Indian Ocean and watching the sun slowly dip below the horizon. Sending very best wishes to everyone for a happy, healthy and peaceful 2026. Copyright © …
Having had a hiatus from the blog, I’ve got a lot of photos stored up from home and abroad. Before getting on with my long overdue writing up of the past year’s travels, I thought I’d do a photo gallery of Djeran season – my favourite time of the year here. I’ve written posts about …
This year just seems to have flown by – so much been happening these past few months especially with some family issues over in the UK. Hence I’m off over there again in a couple of weeks time to help my brother sort out my dad’s flat and get it onto the market. After a …
This past year seems to have flown by in a whirl of “busyness” and I haven’t even posted a festive goodwill post yet. So this is a little round-up of the past couple of weeks including our traditional visit to the Christmas lights in our local suburb, ….an enjoyable family Christmas outing to the “Monet …
I’ve blogged about Perth Zoo before (see here) but thought the following photos were worth sharing. We’ve been having a lovely Indian summer for the past week or so here in Perth and it seemed a good opportunity for an outing with our daughter and granddaughters. The deciduous trees have gradually turned from green to …
Perth Zoo has always been one of our favourite outings over the years (see here, here and here). We first went there on our elder daughter’s 3rd birthday back in October 1990 when we were newly arrived from the UK! Since then Perth Zoo has developed considerably to reflect more progressive ways of accommodating wild …
Monsieur recently bought a small print of the six Nyoongar seasons. It is an excellent way to understand the weather patterns in the south western part of WA. April and May represent Djeran season, “Djeran is marked by cooler nights, dewy mornings and when leaves fall to the ground. Ngari (salmon) are prolific” It is a beautiful time …
A quick hello from Perth! Lacking a bit of inspiration recently for the blog as I haven’t much in the way of new travels though hopefully that will change going forward now we are starting to open up. I captured these photos on a late afternoon walk a couple of days ago. The cloud formation …
It’s been an interesting few weeks here as Western Australia finally starts to open up to the wide world and gets used to “living with covid”. We have increased restrictions as a result and so many places have reduced capacities at present. The weather has remained unpleasantly hot (it’s been the warmest summer on record) …
Such a change of scene from one week to the next – we had yet another sweltering heatwave with temperatures around 40 degrees for a few days then suddenly a welcome change last Sunday. The temperature plummeted about 20 degrees in half a day with the onset of a howling south westerly. We headed down …
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