We have booked in for 6 nights at Northbridge on the northern edge of the city to explore Perth. The map above shows some of our intended destinations during this time.

Kings Park is home to the spectacular Western Australian Botanic Garden, which displays over 3,000 species of the State’s unique flora. Two thirds of the 400 hectare park is protected as bushland and provides a haven for native biological diversity. The kangaroo paw above was in this section.

More wildflowers in the bushland.

Forest red-tailed cockatoo

Perth City and Swan River from Kings Park

There are sections in the gardens that represents flora from different parts of the state. This is a Boab tree in the Kimberley section of the garden.

Eucalyptus from the Goldfields

Geraldton wax (Chamelaucium uncinatum)

View to South Perth

The Old Swan Brewery buildings built in 1879.

Showy Everlasting (Schoenia filifolia)

There are also manicured lawn sections with large trees – this huge Red Cedar from the eastern states.

The Big Periodic Table on the wall of the Science Building at Edith Cowan University at Joondalup. I was a bit out of my element here.

Scarborough Beach sunset