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 …
Unbelievably it’s now June, which here in Perth represents the official start of winter or Makuru (June and July) in the Noongar calendar. A quick update about this year – I had to go over to the UK in January to help clear out my dad’s flat because, following a health crisis last year, he …
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 …
A bit late for Christmas but just in time for the New Year! A few photos taken around Christmas-time here in Perth – a far cry from the heatwave of last year where we sweltered through relentless days of 40 degrees plus. This year, it’s been far milder with strong south-westerly winds. We’re not complaining …
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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