Fremantle

Location: Darwin
Weather: Hot n'Humid

well after not being too impressed with Perth and generally the problems of parking, I put up some adverts to try to sell the car(I only want $1100 bucks for it guvnor) and then headed down the road to Fremantle. This place has a reputation for being much more laid back that Perth and indeed it is. I checked into the Freo YHA which was quite an excellent place. I wandered around the town, a nice relaxing place, saw some of the old convict built buildings such as the Round House and went fishing by the docks. I caught a puffer fish, but apparently these things are a major pest and poisonous, so I had to miss dinner that night.
Also went to Rottnest Island, about 30mins by ferry from Fremantle. This was a really good place, I hired a bike and cycled around the entire island, only about 30kms. Lots of beachs and places to go swimming. The most famous thing on Rottnest though are the Quokkas, these are small friendly kangaroo type animals that the Dutch mistook for rats (hence the name Rottnest).

How could you mistake one of these things for a rat!? typical Dutch!!
Was a very nice place indeed. The sea on the way back though was very rough and the ferry trip back was quite crazy.

By JamesReed on 21.12.04 @ 06:46 AM GMT