Took the train down to Mandurah, 74km South of Perth, Was a nice train journey down on TransPerth’s new railway line, the first 10 minuets out of Perth offered stunning views of the Swan and Canning rivers with the Perth hills in the background.
Mandurah is the fastest growing town in Australia and one of the wealthiest. A network of Canals makes part of the town like a little Venice down under! Over the past 10 years the canals banks have been developed with multi million dollar homes ranging from 1-14 Million Aussie dollars. Most have a parking space for the yacht(s)
It was a tough decision which photo to post as I photographed so many incredible mansions from one who’s owner wanted 10 bathrooms but was cut down to 8 by the council, due to water restrictions to one shaped like a ship, but I decided on this pic as shows an 8 million dollar mansion with a 4 million dollar yacht that has just arrived as the owners new toy!
At Christmas they have a Millionaires Christmas lights competition making it look more like Vegas down under take a look at this youtube video
We also cruised out of the canals into some wetlands and saw many species’ of birds and were lucky enough to briefly spot a dolphin, but he was too quick for my camera and I only succeeded in getting a pic of the water after he had disappeared.
After the cruise had some delicious fish and chips in a cafe next to the canalside then headed back to Perth, back in town that night had my first really big night out of the trip, had a few too many beers helped by the fact that it was Student and Backpacker night and selected beer was $5 a pint rather than the usual $9 Arrived back at the lodge somewhere in the region of 2:30am - a decent warm-up for my 30th B’day in 2 weeks time!
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