South Perth - a small tour (updated)

[dingo]

This new section as inspired me to finally get around to doing this, some of the pictures were taken a while ago (and some posted already) and the rest I took today to finish off the topic :wink:
I might make another topic at a later stage of Perth in general but for now I will stick only with the suburb I live in - which isn't that big :D

Firstly an overview of South Perth.....I live roughly in the middle of the picture. Towards the left in the water you can see the ferry (pics further down) so that should give you some
perspective of where things are :wink:

http://img179.echo.cx/img179/3623/sthperth7sl.th.jpg (http://img179.echo.cx/my.php?image=sthperth7sl.jpg)

The city skyline at different times/angles:

http://img100.echo.cx/img100/5755/perth19yd.th.jpg (http://img100.echo.cx/my.php?image=perth19yd.jpg) http://img100.echo.cx/img100/8616/perthjetski1pf.th.jpg (http://img100.echo.cx/my.php?image=perthjetski1pf.jpg) http://img100.echo.cx/img100/7745/perthnight1ng.th.jpg (http://img100.echo.cx/my.php?image=perthnight1ng.jpg)

this is the view down the street I live on, I love it with all the big trees :D

http://img100.echo.cx/img100/7417/mystreet9jc.th.jpg (http://img100.echo.cx/my.php?image=mystreet9jc.jpg) http://img100.echo.cx/img100/7606/mystreet10ic.th.jpg (http://img100.echo.cx/my.php?image=mystreet10ic.jpg)

Q: How much is this house worth?
A: It recently sold for $AU 13 million :shock: , mainly due to its view which is overlooking the river/city :wink:

http://img231.echo.cx/img231/7664/13mhouse2vf.th.jpg (http://img231.echo.cx/my.php?image=13mhouse2vf.jpg)

some other apartments around the area that actually look nice :P

http://img231.echo.cx/img231/381/apartments8va.th.jpg (http://img231.echo.cx/my.php?image=apartments8va.jpg) http://img231.echo.cx/img231/1301/apartments26cd.th.jpg (http://img231.echo.cx/my.php?image=apartments26cd.jpg) http://img100.echo.cx/img100/8279/niceapartments0yj.th.jpg (http://img100.echo.cx/my.php?image=niceapartments0yj.jpg)

an intersection near my place which leads you onto the freeway....not sure why I took a pic of it :P

http://img100.echo.cx/img100/3954/intersection4uz.th.jpg (http://img100.echo.cx/my.php?image=intersection4uz.jpg)

Mends Street.....the local shopping/eating place and where alot of my nice car sightings take place :wink:

http://img100.echo.cx/img100/2952/mendsst1tm.th.jpg (http://img100.echo.cx/my.php?image=mendsst1tm.jpg)

and the jetty at the bottom of the street:

http://img100.echo.cx/img100/5653/mendsstjetty7vm.th.jpg (http://img100.echo.cx/my.php?image=mendsstjetty7vm.jpg)

This is the South Perth foreshore, where you look across the Swan River towards the city skyline.....nice relaxing place to walk :D

http://img100.echo.cx/img100/1086/foreshore4rv.th.jpg (http://img100.echo.cx/my.php?image=foreshore4rv.jpg)

The ferry I take when I go into the city - costs me $0.50 each way and I'm there in 6-7mins and means I don't have the hassle of finding a carpark (and paying for it also) :wink:

http://img100.echo.cx/img100/1510/ferry6rl.th.jpg (http://img100.echo.cx/my.php?image=ferry6rl.jpg) http://img100.echo.cx/img100/9766/ferryatmendsst5fl.th.jpg (http://img100.echo.cx/my.php?image=ferryatmendsst5fl.jpg)

The view of the city from Kings Park - one of the largest parks in the world :D

http://img100.echo.cx/img100/2443/kingspark2aw.th.jpg (http://img100.echo.cx/my.php?image=kingspark2aw.jpg)

and this is looking up at Kings Park from the foreshore:

http://img100.echo.cx/img100/4438/kingsparkview3re.th.jpg (http://img100.echo.cx/my.php?image=kingsparkview3re.jpg)

Sir James Mitchell Park- basically alot of grass that is never used (except a few shows every now and then) :P

http://img179.echo.cx/img179/8398/sirjamesmitchellpark7yd.th.jpg (http://img179.echo.cx/my.php?image=sirjamesmitchellpark7yd.jpg)

and finally the local hotel/pub - The Windsor :D

http://img179.echo.cx/img179/9405/thewindsor3ij.th.jpg (http://img179.echo.cx/my.php?image=thewindsor3ij.jpg)

[komotar]

8) nice place you have there 8)

Any pics of the beach?

[dingo]

Any pics of the beach?

Nah, South Perth itself doesn't have a beach since it is a little bit inland :wink: You need to go further west (i.e. towards the coast) to get to the beaches, roughly a 10min drive for the closest one :wink:
If I do a topic for Perth in general I will definately include some beach pics :D

[komotar]

Any pics of the beach?

Nah, South Perth itself doesn't have a beach since it is a little bit inland :wink: You need to go further west (i.e. towards the coast) to get to the beaches, roughly a 10min drive for the closest one :wink:
If I do a topic for Perth in general I will definately include some beach pics :D

oh, ok, my bad :oops:

thx for explaining 8)

[saadie]

you live in a nice lil place dingo :)
i'll post pics of isl later .... dont expect to get a single post since its pak .. lol ....
btw ... the ferry looks pritty kelw ... lol .... last time i was onboard a ferry was in hongkong 16 years ago .. lol :mrgreen:

[TT]

Thank you dude, nice pics! I always told you I love Perth :D

[stmoritzer]

Thanks dingo for the tour :D
That's a nice place
I've never been to Australia yet :(

[|Nuno|]

Excellent write-up dingo, Perth seems like a very nice place. :D

In fact, this almost makes want to go there. :P

[TransAm]

Great pics dingo - you live in a nice place...

...you forgot to mention the REAL advantage of the ferry - you can drink in town and not have to worry about leaving your car!

[Wutputt]

Perth is a very nice city!

You probably knew it already, but I looooove this pic:

http://img100.echo.cx/img100/8616/perthjetski1pf.th.jpg (http://img100.echo.cx/my.php?image=perthjetski1pf.jpg)

[dingo]

Thanks all for the nice comments :D



In fact, this almost makes want to go there. :P

yes I know the feeling, thats why I am hesitant to look at 'tourist' pics :P


...you forgot to mention the REAL advantage of the ferry - you can drink in town and not have to worry about leaving your car!

it must have slipped my mind :P



You probably knew it already, but I looooove this pic:

http://img100.echo.cx/img100/8616/perthjetski1pf.th.jpg (http://img100.echo.cx/my.php?image=perthjetski1pf.jpg)

yes I remember you've mentioned it before.....the guy on the jetski is a star without knowing it :D

[dingo]

How many people living in Perth?

well in the state of Western Australia (which Perth is the capital city of) we have about 2 million people, and about 1.5 million of those live in Perth with the rest spread out in the country areas. :wink:

[possessed_beaver]

aws pics, i was up at kings park the other day.. and forgot my camera.. real smart thing to do, thanks for the topic... now i dont have to make one, LOL

i will see what i have and post come pics of perth..

[dingo]

I dont why but always when I think of Perth I think of a smaller city than it is, without high rise buildings.....I know I am wrong but its the image I got of Perth inside my head...... :?



probably because when most people think of Australia the bigger cities like Melbourne and Sydney come to mind - and compared to them Perth is small :wink:

[possessed_beaver]

you get aqny pics of the flood on friday the 13th that happened?

[dingo]

http://www.motorworld.net/forum/showthread.php?p=400706#400706 :wink:

[cityslickerhick]

hey great to see another south perth resident, I live near wesley myself =)

incredible price on the apartement, may i ask what car you have

regards

[dingo]

hey great to see another south perth resident, I live near wesley myself =)

incredible price on the apartement, may i ask what car you have

regards

Cool, thats on Coode St right? A very nice area around there - we have about 4 or 5 Perth members now :D
I drive a '89 HSV Commodore, though I plan to sell it soon and get a '01 or '02 WRX - fingers crossed :D
Here is a topic with some pics of my car, nothing special really but its been good to me :)

:arrow: http://www.motorworld.net/forum/showthread.php?t=14209&start=0

[saadie]

dingo actually drives this ..
http://img84.exs.cx/img84/3818/totalled-med.jpg

[dingo]

dingo actually drives this ..

LOL....exactly, so cityslickerhick you better be careful what you get up to in South Perth as I am always on the watchout :P

[cityslickerhick]

lol ill try to keep out of trouble :P

[saadie]

lol ... yep .... yea got no clue whats under the hood ....
cough*nothing*cough ... lmfao ...

[ARMAN]

lol ... yep .... yea got no clue whats under the hood ....
cough*nothing*cough ... lmfao ...

:lol:


Great pics Dingo! Looks like a very small city but when you said 2 mil live in it -> :shock:
Thanx alot for little trip to the other side of the earth :P

[dingo]

I went for a walk on the foreshore this afternoon and took a couple more pics I thought were worth posting:

http://img69.echo.cx/img69/1143/perthcityskyline12rb.th.jpg (http://img69.echo.cx/my.php?image=perthcityskyline12rb.jpg) http://img69.echo.cx/img69/6707/perthcityskyline27ak.th.jpg (http://img69.echo.cx/my.php?image=perthcityskyline27ak.jpg) http://img69.echo.cx/img69/5692/perthcityskyline31qv.th.jpg (http://img69.echo.cx/my.php?image=perthcityskyline31qv.jpg)

and a pic from a storm last week:

http://img294.echo.cx/img294/4973/lightning2lk.th.jpg (http://img294.echo.cx/my.php?image=lightning2lk.jpg)

and finally a nice sunrise during the week, usually they aren't as good as the sunsets but got lucky this time :D

http://img294.echo.cx/img294/3257/sunrise4wm.th.jpg (http://img294.echo.cx/my.php?image=sunrise4wm.jpg) http://img294.echo.cx/img294/2487/sunrise29dn.th.jpg (http://img294.echo.cx/my.php?image=sunrise29dn.jpg)

[Wutputt]

^^^
Amazing pics. I love'm :D

[TT]

Very nice indeed!

[Robbo]

Here's some pictures I took while I was over in Perth in January. They aren't really of South Perth so much, well I don't think they are, they're just where I went.

These are in Fremantle Harbour I think:
http://img98.echo.cx/img98/2879/dscn07160mw.th.jpg (http://img98.echo.cx/my.php?image=dscn07160mw.jpg)http://img98.echo.cx/img98/5655/dscn07182sq.th.jpg (http://img98.echo.cx/my.php?image=dscn07182sq.jpg)http://img97.echo.cx/img97/9601/dscn07214qn.th.jpg (http://img97.echo.cx/my.php?image=dscn07214qn.jpg)

The place we stayed:
http://img97.echo.cx/img97/9730/dscn07245yk.th.jpg (http://img97.echo.cx/my.php?image=dscn07245yk.jpg)http://img79.echo.cx/img79/7271/dscn07571hj.th.jpg (http://img79.echo.cx/my.php?image=dscn07571hj.jpg)http://img296.echo.cx/img296/9813/dscn08373te.th.jpg (http://img296.echo.cx/my.php?image=dscn08373te.jpg)http://img296.echo.cx/img296/4382/dscn08385cy.th.jpg (http://img296.echo.cx/my.php?image=dscn08385cy.jpg)
View of the pool from our room:
http://img212.echo.cx/img212/4584/dscn07253ch.th.jpg (http://img212.echo.cx/my.php?image=dscn07253ch.jpg)http://img212.echo.cx/img212/2482/dscn07273uv.th.jpg (http://img212.echo.cx/my.php?image=dscn07273uv.jpg)

Scarborough beach:
http://img156.echo.cx/img156/9053/dscn07280zi.th.jpg (http://img156.echo.cx/my.php?image=dscn07280zi.jpg)http://img156.echo.cx/img156/2010/dscn07291ye.th.jpg (http://img156.echo.cx/my.php?image=dscn07291ye.jpg)http://img156.echo.cx/img156/4884/dscn07339ap.th.jpg (http://img156.echo.cx/my.php?image=dscn07339ap.jpg)

Hilary's Boat Harbour:
http://img231.echo.cx/img231/9792/dscn07347yf.th.jpg (http://img231.echo.cx/my.php?image=dscn07347yf.jpg)http://img231.echo.cx/img231/9392/dscn07359wz.th.jpg (http://img231.echo.cx/my.php?image=dscn07359wz.jpg)http://img231.echo.cx/img231/3994/dscn07364gd.th.jpg (http://img231.echo.cx/my.php?image=dscn07364gd.jpg)http://img100.echo.cx/img100/2948/dscn07388hi.th.jpg (http://img100.echo.cx/my.php?image=dscn07388hi.jpg)http://img100.echo.cx/img100/9617/dscn07392xu.th.jpg (http://img100.echo.cx/my.php?image=dscn07392xu.jpg)

The Ferry:
Going up the river from the port of Fremantle:
http://img295.echo.cx/img295/7617/dscn07617xb.th.jpg (http://img295.echo.cx/my.php?image=dscn07617xb.jpg)
Some houses along The Swan River:
http://img299.echo.cx/img299/4924/dscn07635xm.th.jpg (http://img299.echo.cx/my.php?image=dscn07635xm.jpg)http://img299.echo.cx/img299/492/dscn07683lk.th.jpg (http://img299.echo.cx/my.php?image=dscn07683lk.jpg)
View of Perth from the Swan River:
http://img299.echo.cx/img299/9854/dscn07701lk.th.jpg (http://img299.echo.cx/my.php?image=dscn07701lk.jpg)http://img299.echo.cx/img299/9128/dscn07718qs.th.jpg (http://img299.echo.cx/my.php?image=dscn07718qs.jpg)

The Swan Bell Tower:
http://img149.echo.cx/img149/3756/dscn07786rs.th.jpg (http://img149.echo.cx/my.php?image=dscn07786rs.jpg)
View of Perth from The Swan Bell tower:
http://img94.echo.cx/img94/6206/dscn07751rn.th.jpg (http://img94.echo.cx/my.php?image=dscn07751rn.jpg)http://img94.echo.cx/img94/6577/dscn07763ts.th.jpg (http://img94.echo.cx/my.php?image=dscn07763ts.jpg)

The Maritime Museum:
http://img259.echo.cx/img259/4259/dscn07891sl.th.jpg (http://img259.echo.cx/my.php?image=dscn07891sl.jpg)

Kings Park:
http://img259.echo.cx/img259/4696/dscn08025wy.th.jpg (http://img259.echo.cx/my.php?image=dscn08025wy.jpg)
View from Kings Park:
http://img259.echo.cx/img259/9071/dscn07983ac.th.jpg (http://img259.echo.cx/my.php?image=dscn07983ac.jpg)http://img259.echo.cx/img259/9027/dscn07992dl.th.jpg (http://img259.echo.cx/my.php?image=dscn07992dl.jpg)
Kings Park Walkway:
http://img238.echo.cx/img238/2324/dscn08031yw.th.jpg (http://img238.echo.cx/my.php?image=dscn08031yw.jpg)http://img238.echo.cx/img238/6879/dscn08075dz.th.jpg (http://img238.echo.cx/my.php?image=dscn08075dz.jpg)

WACA Ground:
http://img97.echo.cx/img97/6459/dscn08317iu.th.jpg (http://img97.echo.cx/my.php?image=dscn08317iu.jpg)
Gardens near the WACA Ground:
http://img97.echo.cx/img97/1463/dscn08309vc.th.jpg (http://img97.echo.cx/my.php?image=dscn08309vc.jpg)http://img296.echo.cx/img296/7097/dscn08322xe.th.jpg (http://img296.echo.cx/my.php?image=dscn08322xe.jpg)

There you go sorry if the picture I took weren't the greatest but I tried. :lol:

[dingo]

Thanks for the pics mate, obviously it all looks familiar to me. :D

I think the Bell Tower would have to be the most photographed 'thing' in WA. :D

How does Perth compare to Adelaide in your opinion?

[Robbo]

I find it pretty similar in terms of population etc. especially to places like Melbourne and Sydney. Althought I did enjoy the scenery and stuff around Perth more but maybe that is just becuase I see Adelaide everyday. The weather is fairly similar as well probably a bit hotter in Perth although the week or so I was there was the week of the bushfires and the 40 degree days in Adelaide where was it was just 30 or so but the day I got back to Adelaide it was about 28 or something and Perth was like 36. So I was pretty happy with that as I find 40 too hot 8) . But Perth really is a beautiful city pity it's so far away from everyone on the east coast so they probably don't get to see it as much. The view from the bell tower was beautiful.