Quick road tour south of Perth

[Kamipalms]

To start with, heres a map showing where we are;

A closer view with the numbered pinpoints  relating to each of the following photo's

[Kamipalms]

Photo 1- coming out of the estate where the new house is-

#2 on the highway;

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#3 still on the highway;

#4 coming back into suburbia;

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#5 Another new housing development;

#6 A common scene ( Also known as Burger King else where)

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#7 to finish our short trip ( my camera went dead before I got home) the great Australian Hardware chain ;

[Gileno Machado]

Nice flat land humm...Any agricultural crops around town? What's the average rainfall, Jay?

It seems ready for some palm ghost plantings, I'll tell ya. Boycott Burger King unless they use palms in the landscape...

Any pics of the coastline?

[amazondk]

Thanks for the pictures Jason.  I would like to see more of Perth.  It would be interesting to see some pictures of the city.  I have always been interested in your part of the world.  I see they have Graffiti there too.

dk

[Zac in NC]

You are driving on the wrong side of the road. LOL. And yeah, Hungry Jacks? Do they have Whoppers there?

Zac

[Tyrone]

Perth last month I think. I had my whole back garden full of mist that morning. It was a warm humid misty night, which is quite unusual for us on the west side of a large continent.

regards

Tyrone

[Zac in NC]

Wow Thats beautiful Tyrone.

Zac

[Tyrone]

Perth at night. Both of these pics are taken from Kings Park which is at almost eye level with the skyscrapers and above the Swan River which heads out to Fremantle and the sea. The Darling Ranges are in the background and rise to 400-500m elevation. My house is about 7km as the crow flies from Kings Park in the direction of the ranges.

[Tyrone]

Looking west into the Indian Ocean from Cottesloe Beach on a summer's night with stormy clouds everywhere. A few thousand km's further on and slightly to the north and your in Mauritius, Reunion, Madagascar and mainland Africa.

[amazondk]

Tyrone,

Those are great pictures.

dk

[aussiearoids]

TYrone those first 2 pics are simply superb  

They look like postcards .

[Kamipalms]

I'd hoped you'd chime in on this one Tyrone .... Great shots!

Heres another shot of Cottesloe Beach- stolen form a UK website ???

Heres another shot of a local beach close to home...

You are driving on the wrong side of the road. LOL. And yeah, Hungry Jacks? Do they have Whoppers there?

Zac,

You guy's drive on the wrong side of the road...not us!

Whoppers....thats what their called ...and what they use to be.

[SubTropicRay]

I love the photos even without the palms Jason.

[FossilNypa]

Those beaches look pretty nice.

[Kris]

Dear Jason  

very nice coverage of the area.One stricking thing i noticed here is total lack of heavy looking palms in that vicinity.

and in one housing area i see rows of christmas trees.but

those trees will not give shade in summer.

i have never seen till this day that christmas trees used as row trees in any place.its a kind of new to me.since trees are grown for shade or flowers.a cidp or magnoloia or washy's will make the place look more like floridia or california.

is the landscape done by the goverment or by public contractors in descision with local residents ?

Thanks for those travel shots,i felt as thought i was in that

car,you are driving !  

Love,

Kris  

[Tyrone]

Hi Kris,

Those Xmas trees are Norfolk Island Pines. They're grown everywhere around here even where they don't grow well for lack of rainfall. They're very wind tolerant.

But we have lots and lots of Canary Island Date Palms here. I was thinking that I should take a lot of photos of them for you. We have a large avenue of old ones along the river and they're all lit up at night from the ground and look superb. There are also real big ones at Perth Zoo and in some of the public gardens and as features in the middle of round-abouts near me. They seed all year round and heaven help anyone who hits one in a car. The palm wouldn't move that's for sure.

I hope to go to the zoo soon so I should have some interesting CIDP pics then.  

regards

Tyrone

[Kris]

Dear Tyrone  

that's really nice to hear about the Cidp's.and iam eagerly waiting to see some or many of those giants from your

cities.

thanks in advance for those lovely stills...

Lots of love,

Kris