When the call came that the new grandson had arrived, we
left Wongan Hills and made our way to Perth to meet the new little man. We booked
into a caravan park for three weeks. It was lovely to have the family time with
our son, daughter-in-love, granddaughter and new grandson. Nanna had lots of cuddles
of the new little man which did my heart good! Pa waited patiently, but did
play lots of imaginative games with the four year old while waiting. Our time
with both the parents was definitely a precious three week interlude in our
journey. We enjoyed a couple of evenings eating out together, as well as family
time with our daughter-in-love's wider family.
Saturday mornings were, of course, spent at parkrun and we
experienced three new ones: Claisebrook Cove, Shipwreck and Champion Lakes. Of these,
Shipwreck would have to be my favourite but they were all interesting.
Claisebrook Cove runs along the Swan River and around the Cove, Shipwreck is a
double out and back run in a park with a wonderful playground and Champion
Lakes is a 5km around the lake that is the rowing course. Steve, unfortunately,
did a hamstring in the fourth kilometre of that last one but he was able to get
into a physio and has assiduously done the exercises in order to get back to
running as soon as he is able.
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| Steve with a runner we had met at Yeldulknie Weir parkrun on the Eyre Peninsula, SA |
The new playgrounds were spent with either just our
granddaughter or the whole family. The one that she calls The Purple Park we
have visited before but this time it was just with Pa and Nanna as we walked to
this playground twice, once to have a pizza party together. The other
playgrounds were new to us and enjoyed with the whole family while our son was
still on leave. We had a picnic together at Shipwreck Park and enjoyed watching
our granddaughter have the time of her
life on the flying foxes, climbing the children's rock wall and playing hide
and seek through the large wooden ship structure. Another afternoon saw us at the Volcano Park and I am not sure who enjoyed this park the most -
the lass or her Pa? They both climbed the structure way above our heads.
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| How exciting to see the Police horse on our walk |
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| Shipwreck Park playground |
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| High above us at Volcano Park |
Steve twice took the opportunity of donating plasma while we
were in Perth, we did some of the mundane things that always need to be done,
we caught up with a couple of friends, went to three different churches and
revisited some of our favourite spots. We took lots of walks together too. It really was a pleasant interlude, but
after three weeks we again packed up, hitched on and took ourselves south to
continue or exploring, but with the promise that we'll be back again.
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| Shipwreck Park |
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| Lesmurdie Falls |
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| Climbing up Sixty Foot Falls |
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| The view over Perth from the top of the Sixty Foot Falls |
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| Walking in the park across the road from the caravan park |
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| Perth on the Swan River is a beautiful city |
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