Walk between Narrows and Causeway

Peter is still out of action but should join me next Saturday. I have done this walk before, but repeated it, as it is in the walking guide that I'm following. The weather today was superb compared to last week. The sun is warm with a cool breeze blowing, a really good combination.

I commenced walking at 10:15am starting at Coode Street jetty and headed west toward the Narrows bridge. All up this is a 10km walk by the time you complete the loop from the Narrows to the Causeway, walking past the Perth foreshore.

There was plenty of walkers and cyclists of all ages and sizes. As I walked through the park in the middle of the freeway interchange it was interesting to stop and read the plaque on how the engineering work was done so that a freeway and bridge could be built on a muddy river bed. There are also regular photo information spots that tell you what was happening on that part of the river a hundred or less years ago.

I stopped at the Barrack street jetty and had a macilatia coffee, I need to learn how to spell it. Some what stronger than a cupachino. I also found next to the Bell Tower the tiles that the kids signed in 2000 when they were at Wattle Grove Primary, I could only recognize Joshua's signature. The tiles are set in the ground. It was only there first name and the initial of their last name, all very interesting looking back in time.

From here I continued down the foreshore and enjoyed the section of the river where they had returned a small section back to what the foreshore would have originally looked like. In this area is also a bust I haven't noticed before to Baudin the French explorer who visited this coast and location in 1801. Perth would have been a very different place if it had been a French settlement. Federation would have been a lot more difficult in 1901, plus all the wealth in the ground on this part of the continent would have created tension with the rest of the continent if not shared, yet Canada seems to have sorted out some of these difficulties with Quebec. We may have ended up with French influence having a nicer designed city and better cuisine.

Next week's walk is at Pt Walter.