Having looked at all sorts of boats on the water - on the river, on the sea, in the marin
as, being put in or taken out - we decided that a visit to the Fremantle Maritime Museum was in order. Exhibits ranged from homemade boats made from sheet metal to the successful Americas Cup winner a few years ago. The highlight for Suzanne and me - Roger - was the submarine tour. HMS Ovens was in service from the late 1960's to the late 1990's although never in a battle situation. Suzanne was very interested in the size of the galley which served 63 meals 3 times a day and I was particularly 
interested in the machinery. Can you imagine the noise when these two engines were up and running - they were used to generate electricity to charge the batteries which were used to power the electric motors that drove the propellers. Now that was exciting wasn't it?? Well we thought so!
as, being put in or taken out - we decided that a visit to the Fremantle Maritime Museum was in order. Exhibits ranged from homemade boats made from sheet metal to the successful Americas Cup winner a few years ago. The highlight for Suzanne and me - Roger - was the submarine tour. HMS Ovens was in service from the late 1960's to the late 1990's although never in a battle situation. Suzanne was very interested in the size of the galley which served 63 meals 3 times a day and I was particularly 
interested in the machinery. Can you imagine the noise when these two engines were up and running - they were used to generate electricity to charge the batteries which were used to power the electric motors that drove the propellers. Now that was exciting wasn't it?? Well we thought so!We also decided to visit a well known local cemetary to see what the locals get up to there. Well they eat amongst the graves, they fight amongst the graves, they bring their young along for an outing and they generally have a good time! This is a regular meeting place for the local kangaroos and there were a lot there. All wild but well used to having people around them. We spent probably about an hour here watching them and taking loads of pics. In the end the light gave up on us and we had to leave them to it.
We are currently in the middle of celebrating birthdays - Suzanne, Nic and Jean - and so we went to the theatre on Sunday night - now that sounds posh does't it? We went to see the farewell tour of Riverdance which was excellent and we all enjoyed it very much. Now we must get down to the more mundane activities of eating birthday cakes, drinking celebratory wine, munching chocolate and anything else that comes along.
We are very conscious that we only have about 6 weeks left before we start our journey home - doesn't time fly?
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