Mandurah - Water, War Memorial and Walking

Welcome ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,

After my visit to Penguin Island in the morning I set off to Mandurah which is another 30 km South of Rockingham, so in total about 80 km South of Perth. This town is famous for its cruises: dolphin / lunch / dinner / twilight / torchlight / wedding / party cruises. Everything is available. As I have already seen dolphins in Adelaide (that was the day when my camera broke down, so you cannot see any pictures in this blog entry, sorry! ) I decided against a dolphin cruise and went around the marina shore for a walk towards the park of Mandurah.

Can you guess what this is? I couldn’t believe it until I read the very faint inscription on the stones that it is a War Memorial.

Then I walked across the boardwalk on the so-called Venetian Canal Walk. And really, it reminds a little bit of Venice with the little water ways and the boats. But it is way too modern of course.

I arrived at the Dolphin Quay and walked through the stalls but there wasn’t anything special and as it was already 4:30pm the shops were about to close anyway.

After this big walk around the city and because of the walking on Penguin Island in the morning I decided to head back to Manning. It took me an hour to get there because it was very busy on the Freeway. Oh, here is the car by the way. A very old SAAB 900 S (I think…).

 

As I arrived back at the house I just could think of one more thing to make this day perfect: a ice-cold beer! :-)

That was the refreshing end of a big day out in WA. The next stop will be even bigger one: Rottnest Island!

Yours Mandurah-surrounding Stefanie