Weekend outings, part 1

My time in Australia is narrowing down to two weeks.

Two weeks.

Where oh where does the time go? I guess when you're watching a toddler, things tend to go by fast. I've been rather lax with the blogging this month, so it's time to update. But before I begin, allow me to speak of a subject halfway on the other side of the world....

Can I take a moment to breathe a sigh of relief/give praise to the universe for a new Canadian PM??

BEHOLD.

All it takes is this one election, and suddenly the rest of the world is having to do a double take on our swaggerific Justin Trudeau. "Hot damn, Canada!" the world is exclaiming.

Hot damn, indeed. 

They were even talking about him on the Perth morning news show last week. Nobody ever talks about Canada--not in the most positive sense these days, anyway--so you know this is a fairly big deal. With all said and done, it's about time that a new government took the reigns on the country. Let's hope he follows through on helping restore Canada's former glory. (I personally think he will.)

Now, back to me--aside from time at the beach, we've taken a few outings these past few weekends to various locales. The first from a few weekends ago was a trip to Serpentine Falls National Park, which was a pretty place; the falls themselves weren't huge, but that was only because of the low precipitation levels in the region. I was surprised by the big turn out in people that wanted to see it.

Reminds me of a place you'd see in Muskoka.

The closest I'm probably ever going to get to one of these guys/gals.

The place was also apparently a kangaroo hangout (likely because visitors give them food), but we only saw the one just a few feet (or metres?) away. It brings my tally of kangaroo sightings up to 6--which means I've seen more of Australia's most popular animal than I've seen Canadian moose in my entire life. How does that figure!

The weekend afterwards (or the one after that one, can't remember), we visited the city of Fremantle, which happens to be the port where everything heading to Perth is shipped to. Most recently it was branded as one of the top ten cities to visit in 2016. Exciting! By the sound of Fremantle, I first thought it to be seedy, but after spending an afternoon there, I decided that it's a rather fun place (although still seedy in some parts). Lots of historical architecture to admire, live music, and lots of people milling about. 

We watched a street performer from Adelaide (or so he claimed) perform tricks on a unicycle, all while juggling fire batons. He also cracked jokes that no one seemed to find funny (haha), and gave some child helpers from the audience swords, which scared their parents. Then he practically begged the audience for money afterwards.

Entry to the Fremantle market

Bigger on the inside than you would have guessed.

Casual weekend dining.

After walking the main drag once or twice, we stopped by a brewery/restaurant known as Little Creatures to whet our whistles with pizza and beer. The beer was good, and we got a free plate of clams with one of our pizzas. (May or may not have sent off a drunkenly-written postcard addressed to home from the place afterwards.)

Our most recent weekend excursion was to Rottnest Island... Coming soon to a blog post near you. 

P.S: Speaking of beer, a recently published article says that the Australian accent was born from drunken colonial settlers. (Well, in that day and age, if you were cut off from the rest of the world and living in a ridiculously hot climate, what else would you want to do??)

Image from here