Today’s the day. We have been waiting for the Kalamunda Markets to buy some artwork for the house and as a memento of our trip. We left here early around 7am and arrived at the markets about 8.25am. We drove into a car park near the markets but it was full, just as we were coming out, a parking space became available right next to the markets, we were pretty happy with that. So we got off to a good start. The markets were very busy and being the last one before Christmas, it was very popular. Again, the quality of the workmanship is first rate.
Here you are Bev, I found Carol at the market.
A friend of a friend…..
Kalamunda is a great little town now obviously connected to Perth with the outward sprawl. It is around 984 feet, so is cooler than Perth. A lot of fruit is grown up there.
We found our metal artwork and finished the rounds of the markets. We also knew that St Barnabus School was having a fete and did the short walk to the school for a look around. They had a fantastic book sale, I was tempted by a few titles, but settled on one small ginger cookbook. Next stop on our agenda was the information centre. Behind the information centre is the Kalamunda History Centre which has been done beautifully by all the volunteers. It was great that they had decorated the museum houses as they would have been for Christmas. Great attention to detail in the museum.
Houses and the Station Inside the school room
A great way to display relevant items of the time.
A sign in the post office, you could smoke, but you had to stop half and hour before finishing work. Well things have certainly changed.
This was a neat little cottage with an attached store.
Below was the house I liked the most, built by their father for two spinster sisters. The detail in the house was just beautiful. It was just like walking into 1930. The work in the clear leadlight dining room windows was fantastic.
There were many other buildings, stables, garage, orchard packing shed etc as well as the railway station.
After the history village, we called into another wagon dedicated to craft work.
The lady told us of the zig zag road, which used to be part of the railway and is now a scenic one way down from the Perth Hills.
This is the view from the road with Perth in the distance. The airport is in the fore ground.
The Perth Hills are really a large escarpment behind Perth. Certainly the spot to have a house, the views of a night must be very good.
We did a bit of touring today. We were going to head over to the coast, but there was a big hold up on the freeway which we managed to avoid, so we headed back the way we came and called into Serpentine Falls on the way home. Perth is certainly urban sprawl. There is a lot of very large commercial areas and housing. Again the housing is on land the same size as the house and many had almost a common wall. We had light traffic all the way because we stayed off the freeway.
Serpentine Falls and Picnic Area – a very popular spot.
The picnic area was nicely grassed with shady trees.
There was a 300 metre walk from the open parking area and with the nearest car park open, it was 200 metres.
This was very crowded with lots of people swimming. I managed to not get them in my photos. They close the car park nearest the falls and ask that you only spend 30 minutes there in peak times.
Lovely photo of you and Carol - so clever to wear matching outfits too!
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