We were up early this morning showered and ready to go by 8-30 am. We were told by the management at the caravan park that all seniors travel free on public transport in Perth/WA between 9-00 am and 3-30 pm, so we thought we would leave the car here at the park and travel in to Perth city on public transport - big mistake. First of all we got on the bus here at the park - the bus driver had no idea what we were talking about and rudely told us just to take a seat. Then we got to the train station and when we enquired how we got a senior ticket were told that the free transport is for Western Australian seniors only by yet another very rude young lady - who after explaining that it was only for WA seniors could not be bothered to show us how to obtain our tickets. Anyway we managed to get our tickets - it only cost $1.50 each to get to Perth so were weren't too bothered it was just the way we were treated.
When we got into the city we headed for the Tourist Information to find out the best way to get to Kings Park and the Bell Tower. The elderly gentleman in there was very helpful and explained which bus to get and how to get to the places we wanted to go to. We got the bus to Kings Park and spent about 3 hours walking around there. Anyone who has been to Kings Park will know the views are incredible and it is beautiful place to walk around. Plus the weather today has been fantastic - I would say that it was about 23 degrees.
We then got back on the bus to the city and went to the Bell Tower. This is quite an impressive building - we were a little disappointed when we realised we had missed the bell ringing times - but the lady that we paid our entry to explained that they were expecting a school group and would be ringing the bells when the children were there. Needless to say we were very pleased. The bells are from St Martins in the Fields in Trafalgar Square and were given to Western Australia to commemorate Australia's bicentenary in 1988.
We had been in touch with David and Betty during the day, they are now back home in Cottesloe after their 14 month trip around Australia. They invited us round for dinner tonight and when David realised that we had got the train into Perth he told us to get the train to Cottesloe and he would pick us up and bring us back to the caravan park after dinner. Well we got to Cottesloe at about 4 pm and David true to his word picked us up and took us back to their place. We then had a walk down the beach front in Cottesloe before returning to their place for dinner, which was very nice indeed and then David brought us back to the caravan park. Cottesloe is a really nice area and the sunset tonight was beautiful.
All in all it has been a big day and we are both ready to hit the sack.
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