Well-known fact about Perth: it is handsomely the sunniest of Australia’s capital cities.
Perth averages 3,200 hours per year – circa 8.8 hours per day.
Little-known, counter-intuitive fact about Perth: its average annual rainfall is considerably higher than Melbourne’s…and London’s.
(Melbourne has twice as many rainy days, and many more hours of drizzle. Perth’s rain – is typically much more “squally”)
Perth’s winter light is often glorious; it can flatter everything it touches – even very “generic” CBD architecture.
I took the photo with an IPad at 3pm on 03 July; the wettest Perth winter sine 1955 still provided very many sunny hours.
My vantage point was adjacent to Elizabeth Quay – a grandiloquent 21st century waterfront precinct that was carved out of the Swan River and some former parkland.
Prior to “Betty’s Jetty”, the pictured towers were the CBD’s southernmost; almost all of their south-facing windows used to offer uninterrupted views across the Swan.
Some now “enjoy” views of towers that are taller than their own.