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.
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It cost more than ninety million dollars to build.
Does that make it Australia’s most expensive pedestrian bridge?
It may or may not be our longest suspension bridge that carries no cars; certainly, it is more than twice as long as one eastern Australian pretender to the “longest pedestrian bridge” crown.
(I have long since ceased to be surprised that “perhaps we should check to see what has been built or achieved in places west of the Great Dividing Range” is a notion that never occurs to far too many Australians who live east of “The Divide”)
Statistics aside, Perth’s Matagarup Bridge is a singular structure; imagine a pair of swans, in flight…
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Perchance, on any particular day, a Perth resident wished to see a pelican, a parrot/cockatoo, and a heron…
… s/he would almost invariably find it very easy to make that wish come true, somewhere within a few kilometres of home, in whatever suburb.
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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.
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…with a musical bonus, 100% free of irony…and a suitably ironic “salute” to Australia’s most prominent “bad Santa”
Merry whatever to everyone!
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At high tide the waters of Perth’s Swan-Canning Estuary can cover 55 square kilometres – a surface area just a whisker larger than Sydney Harbour. Point Walter is where the Swan “turns the corner”, then suddenly gets much narrower and deeper.
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This stilt (a banded stilt, I think) is one of many now active at Lake Claremont.
Many of Perth’s “natural” places are in a sad state, degrading.
Lake Claremont is a happy exception.
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Today’s real-life “pelican yoga” on the Swan River was irresistible…and so was both flower and fruit on a Bushy Yate.
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