Today we went to Perth with the particular intention of seeing more of Kings Park.
It was named Kings Park for King Edward VII on his accession to the thrown. It is 406 hectares in size (1004 acres) and overlooks the city of Perth from Mount Eliza (62M above sea level) This area has always been important to the Aboriginal people, the early European settlers and to the people of Western Australia. Having no structural boundaries the park is open 24 hrs a day. As I previously mentioned Kings Park has many different areas. The memorial gardens contain the war memorials to the fallen Australian servicemen in both world wars including a separate Jewish memorial and a separate Aboriginal Memorial. There is also a memorial to those Australians killed in the Bali bombing. There are a number of viewing points to see across the city and the Swan river.
It was named Kings Park for King Edward VII on his accession to the thrown. It is 406 hectares in size (1004 acres) and overlooks the city of Perth from Mount Eliza (62M above sea level) This area has always been important to the Aboriginal people, the early European settlers and to the people of Western Australia. Having no structural boundaries the park is open 24 hrs a day. As I previously mentioned Kings Park has many different areas. The memorial gardens contain the war memorials to the fallen Australian servicemen in both world wars including a separate Jewish memorial and a separate Aboriginal Memorial. There is also a memorial to those Australians killed in the Bali bombing. There are a number of viewing points to see across the city and the Swan river.
Then there are family areas, landscaped areas, bush land and the botanical gardens.Today we wandered through the memorial gardens, looked out from many of the viewing points, had lunch and visited an Aboriginal Art Gallery.
After that we took we took the tram tour of the park, when I say tram these are old tram cars that have been mounted onto bus or truck chassis so that they can now be driven along any road. Then we wandered through the botanical gardens where Mary snapped away happily taking about a hundred and fifty pictures of native Australian plants.
The green and red Kangaroo Paw is the State Flower of Western Australiathe state bird is the Black Swan and the Animal is the Numbat
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