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McGowangrad, winter ‘22: #13 in series (zip lining, Matagarup Bridge)

 

Properly regulated, zip lining is fun, easy, and safe.

Even young children can do it, as per today’s photo; behind them is something much more dangerous.

After the bridge-proper had been completed, Perth’s Matagarup Bridge had two “adventure”/money-making modifications added.

First came the “bridge climb”, then the zip line.

The uninspiring building behind the young zip liners is part of Crown Perth – a casino-centred “resort” which offers much the same array of dreary, pseudo-“glamorous” opportunities to be fleeced as do its too-many peers, worldwide.

In some respects, Perth is deliciously unique, or highly unusual.

In others, it is depressingly “same-same”.

All the “leading”, “global”,  bland brands and franchises – both “high end” and “mass market” – are over-abundantly present in Perth.

#14 in this series depicts an enjoyable experience and a location that are in some respects “quintessentially Australian”, but in their totality are “uniquely Perth”.

Published in photographs Western Australia