Our blue-eye'd boy; terribly cute. |
Flexing his biceps...almost :-) |
...and throwing some modelling moves (Karla was showing him how), haha! |
Our blue-eye'd boy; terribly cute. |
Flexing his biceps...almost :-) |
...and throwing some modelling moves (Karla was showing him how), haha! |
It was 41 degrees C out here, so we did not stay too long. |
Karin had the grilled mushrooms and Oupa had the "big brekkie". We rate this the top breakfast spot in Freo. |
We were not sure if my dad would like a day-trip to the hot, and fly invested, Pinnacles. However, Oupa really enjoyed seeing this strange natural phenomenon out in the "desert". |
180-degree Panorama |
My dad is 1.85m tall, so this give you an idea of scale. |
One of the mandatory tourist shots...we'd have preferred a living one, but they proved quite elusive on this trip. |
The Indian Ocean and some typical W.A. coastal flora. Beautiful! |
Yep, a honest-to-goodness Aussie road-sign on the way North to Cervantes. |
The jetty at Lancelin. |
A statue commemorating the first gold (nugget) found in W.A., roughly 600km West of Perth. |
Oupa and the kids with some full-scale molds of actual gold-nuggets found in Australia. Huge! |
Eugene, digging for treasure! |
All that digging is warm-work!! |
My dad with a fish-on. Eugene is not all that interested! |
A rather poor pano shot with the Sony. Not anywhere near the image quality I get with my Canon. |
The kids with my dad and Perth CBD in the background. |
Pointing in the direction of home as viewed from Kings Park. |
Karin and Bok looking at the tree Queen Elizabeth planted on 27 March 1954. |
On the glass bridge overlooking the old Swan Brewery and "the narrows" on the Swan River. |
Oupa with the grandchildren. |
...no doubt thinking about my mum back in Napier... |
Eugene and his blue cake. It HAD to be blue! Here he and Karla are decorating it. |
Eugene playing Karla's Bop-it. Yes, they have frequent fights over who is playing next :-) |
At the Spur Steak Ranch in Mandurah. We took Eugene there for his Birthday lunch. Our good friends Greg and Briar also drove down all the way from Joondalup. Thanks a million guys! |
'Gene and all his robot presents. Also, check that Savanna Dry on the left. Mmmm! |
Munch, munch, munch. Gene eating his Chico the Clown desert. |
At Spur the tradition is that the waiters come and sing the birthday boy/girl a song. Eugene was very over-awed by all this and ran to mum! Still just a small boy. |
Back at home ~5pm, he finally got to blow out some candles and tuck in to the Blue cake! |
Karla was a great big-sister allowing Eugene some more lee-way than normal :-) |
A final shot. Our two lovely babies. |
Outside the Perth Underground station. |
Oupa, Karin and the kids with the Perth CBD in the background. |
The old Commonwealth Bank of Australia building, which is now home to City Beach, a surf-wear shop. |
Doing the obligatory souvernir shopping... |
Kangaroo paw back-scratcher; expensive at $45! |
Watching the clock-tower display at the Ye Olde English shopping mall. |
...and looking at all the shops inside it... |
My dad now knows that the famous WA cork-string hats do in fact work and have a use here, haha! |
Dad waiting for a bus in the CBD... |
...or Burger King as it is called in New Zealand. Just check out the make-up on the bloke in red pants. Eugene is out-for-the-count too. |
Waiting for the Mandurah bound train, which will stop at the Bull Creek Station, where we were parked. |
On the way home... |
...and it was a little windy down there too! |