Well this was gonna be our first big ride around Perth in ages, as now Harrison has become a ripper rider it was time to give him a good ride around the bush city. We drove t
o Charles Paterson Park which is better know as 'the Park near the Casino', opened the boot of the commodore (thats the best thing about the wagon we can fit two big bikes and three kiddie bikes into it) and got the bikes out. But before we set of on our ride we got a photo with the black swan, with the city and the WACA in the background.
Our second photo opportunity was after 1.4 kilometers, funny how you forget how sore your arse is after riding a friggin' bike. So a q
uick stop to relive the freckle and grab a photo under the Graham Farmer Bridge. Then another on the bridge over looking East Perth, which was gonna be our next stop.
suddenly we came across this little Park in Claisebrook Cove with these strange sculptures in it, so a nice little stop for a drink and a photo opportunity with these things. These sculptures were made from junk metal salvaged from the old Perth Gasworks which were on the site years back, there known as STEEL MAG
NOLIA and suppose to look like plants..... cool. Just a little way down the bike track we came apon this old little wharf, so had a rest and another drink and a gander at the old thing. Trip computer was 2.4kms.
Harrison taking a rest on the old wharf
Then a ride to the little Park at East Perth where the nevilles had a swing and a drink, then a ride threw the little cove you see in the back ground and to the other side of this cove to Haig Park.
After that stop we did some serious kilometers under two bridges and along the Riverside Drive, to we reached the Bell tower at Barrack Square. The trip computer rushed up to 7klms, and fare dinkum I had the sore arse to prove it. Here's a bit of history of the bells for ya....
'From one of London's most famous churches, in Trafalgar Square, the St Martin-in-the-Fields bells have rung out to celebrate many historic events such as, England's victory over the Spanish Armada in 1588, The World War II victory at El Alamein in 1942, ringing in the New Year at Trafalgar Square for more than 275 years, celebrating the coronation of every British monarch since King George II in 1727, the homecoming of Captain James Cook after his voyage of discovery in 1771. On his return to London in 1771, the bells of St-Martin-in-the-Fields, the bells of the admiralty, rang out to welcome back a hero of the Age of Discovery'. So there ya go. This was also our t
ucker time and for a change we were going to eat that bad stuff, you know all that stuff that we love like a nice sausage roll with dead horse washed down with a fanta..... arrrrr the good stuff!
During our feed Harrison wanted to show my brother Mark Perth's BHP TOWER (By the way this is a link.... i'm starting to get this computer lingo hay!) when it's finished it will be the tallest tower in Perth but only third in Australia.
Then it was back on the bike and off we went back along Riverside Park, on our way back to the carpark.
And of cause it wouldn't be a ride if we didn't finish with a little feed, and this time it was a ICE CREAM FIX! Sometimes I think the kiddies only go out with me for the feed, but then again it might just be the great bonding feeling that you get..... yeah right i reckon it's the ice cream too! And just for the record the trip computer came in at 11Kilometers, not bad for an 'out-of-fitness' old fella with one very sore freckle and a few ratbag kiddies. Come to think of it i'm not that bad as i am in shape, well round is a shape!