Postcard from Perth #3

Monday dawned, and with Karl not attending the conference until Tuesday, we had some time to wander around and also meet another friend who was also attending the conference for lunch and walk.

We headed down to Elizabeth Quay, a waterside development that I believe was opened in 2016. In the featured image at the top of the post you can see the pedestrian bridge (like two hoops). We had lunch at a microbrewery with a restaurant, of course enjoying one of their beers.

We later stopped for coffee, and took in some of the older buildings in the city centre. Dinner that night was fantastic….but more of that on Monday.

On Tuesday, while Karl went to the conference, I headed off on my own. I had spotted this street art near our hotel, all from Western Australian artists.

My plan for the morning was to head over to the Western Australian Museum Boola Bardip, which houses exhibits about nature, the land and history of the state. There is a real mixture of things here, from a meteorite you can touch to a dinosaur skeleton to stories of colonisation.

Outside the museum are these water jets that operate every few minutes. I am quite sure they are supposed to represent something but I am not sure what. The middle picture below shows the precinct, and the third one an exhibit in the museum.

Next to the museum is the Old Perth Gaol, now used for exhibitions. It is a really lovely building from the outside and hard to imagine its original use.

I also visited the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) across the precinct (the art gallery was shut). This was such a lovely place and space, and I am so glad I found it. The works featured below are by Jack Ball. The Blue Room Theatre can also be found next door.

Unfortunately, we had to cut our stay in Perth short by a day. Our flight from Perth to Melbourne was ‘rescheduled’ by three hours which meant we would miss our connection to Wellington. The message said the airline ‘were working on a solution’ which would no doubt mean a hotel for the night and the possibility of getting on a flight the next day (of course not guaranteed if flights were full). Anyway, Karl got onto the travel agency who had booked our tickets, and we flew home via Sydney on Wednesday. But more of that later…..meanwhile find postcards #1 and #2 here and here.

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