The Central Area Transit is made up of four colour coded routes that get you all over the central area of Perth. They're free as well! You don't need a hop on hop off bus tour at all. The CAT is frequent and goes pretty much anywhere you would want to as a tourist. There is a bit of overlap in the heart of the CBD which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Transperth also runs a CAT in Fremantle, but we will get there in due time.
I took a nice walk along the Swan River. Did I get lost? Not "lost" as much as "didn't know there wasn't a way off the path". Whoops. It was a lovely path and a lovely walk but it did not get me to where I wanted to be. Their river is very wide! I honestly thought Perth was a shore city.
When Mom visited Perth many years ago, she went to Queens Gardens. This is a wonderful oasis in the middle of the city. It isn't far at all from the Western Australia Cricket Association. It also happens to be a stop on the Red CAT.
Ever since I arrived, Mom was asking if I went to King's Park. When I did, she was very excited and asked if I saw the swans! No, but I did see a duck. "No, the swans in the pond by Peter Pan!"
So I set out to find Peter Pan, because he wasn't in King's Park.
Arriving at Queens Gardens, you need to go through a wrought iron gate. If you're like me and a gate generally means something is closed, you follow a local and be ready to plead ignorance. Once inside, the garden is full of green grass, swans, ponds, and lily pads.
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| There was even a gosling! |
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| James and Peter. |
In the parks, the grass is green and beautiful. It is also very short and coarse, for lack of a better word. Perth isn't a very rainy city, and Australia isn't a very wet country. It would be fair to think the grass in the parks is astroturf.
Looks fake, right? Kinda feels fake too. I can assure you it is not. I don't know how they grow it and how it's not brown, but it is not fake. I may have tugged some up to check.
Next: Birthday on the Indian Ocean!
