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McGowangrad, winter ‘22: #6 in series (inner suburbia, believe it or not)

 

This series’ #6 location is only a whisker further from the centre of Perth’s CBD than was #5’s, but in the opposite direction.

If our imaginary “crow”/Australian raven decided to fly over from the roof of the GPO, s/he would be able to reach this post’s vantage point in less than two minutes.

An unhurried human could walk it in less than forty minutes, or spend five minutes on a train, then walk for another five minutes.

It is pleasingly hard to believe, but if the imaginary “crow” had joined me at Banks Reserve, s/he would have then been within 500 metres flying distance of Australia’s most inner-urban capital city racecourse, and less than a kilometre from “Australia’s best stadium”.

(Perth is inclined to boast, but its stadium actually is Australia’s best, by various criteria. For sports fans it offers unusual levels of comfort, clear sight lines, excellent “facilities”, and unrivalled ease of access by public transport. For those who are not sports fans, it offers an uncommonly elegant, not so-intrusive structure, and a remarkably lovely “Stadium Park”, very intelligently planted with mostly-endemic flora)

If our imaginary “crow” were partial to gambling/gaming or money-laundering, s/he could fly over to Perth’s Crown Casino in less than 60 seconds.

All the aforementioned  “attractions” are on the Burswood Peninsula; my photo, taken at 4.16 pm on 02 July 2022, looks across the Swan River, from the East Perth foreshore to the western bank of the Burswood Peninsula.

Published in nature and travel photographs Western Australia