Perth- Freemantle

Hi everyone, we are really enjoying Perth & Freemantle & have seen some great sights.  Below is the Maritime  Museum, a really interesting place to visit.

It may not look like it but this is a yacht suspended from the ceiling .

Jon Sanders' yacht the parry Endeavour- he circumnavigated the globe 3 times, (solo). It looked very battered.

Another view.

Australia 2, who can forget it winning the America's Cup?

Grae inside an original Swan River ferry.

These toy sheep look a lot happier than the real ones that are exported live.

Guided torpedo.

Submarine HMAS Ovens, commissioned in 1969, decommissioned in the early nineties . It is an Oberon Class sub.

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The museum had a working periscope from an Oberon Class sub, the scope is inside the museum, and goes through its roof.You could swivel it around and look at the harbour outside.  Grae doing his best Red October impersonation!

There was also an Antarctic exhibition, one of the sled dogs, eventually banned from the continent because they were deemed an introduced species.  It was fascinating to see the photos from Mawson's 1912  expedition where he nearly died, especially since I have just read a book about it.

Sculpture of new immigrants arriving at Freemantle.

The Roundhouse, one of the first buildings here, built as a gaol.

Exterior photo of the Maritime Museum, a really great piece of architecture, it looks like a ship on its side.

Freemantle builings