Today we went to the Fremantle Maritime Museum and had a good look around there.
They’ve got plenty to see including the Australia II and a retired Ovens class submarine.
Now that’s what I call a winged keel !
The submarine tour is the highlight of the day as they take you through all areas of it explaining it all as you go.
After the submarine tour the weather turned nasty again. So far, everywhere we’ve been has had far more changeable weather than Melbourne … and we’re famous for it. Perth has been the most changeable so far. There’s been intense tropical storms followed by sunshine … luckily the sunshine parts have coincided mostly with the activities we’ve wanted to do. Our luck was about to run out though.
The submarine tour was pretty cool, but right at the end of the tour we got word that it was bucketing down outside. Less than 5 minutes later we were standing at the back of the boat in sunshine.
Our next stop was to get supplies for lunch and we then headed to Fremantle cemetery. The plan was to find Bon Scott’s grave. Should have been easy enough given that I had GPS coordinates to assist in this huge place … but no …
The coordinates were pretty much way off and then the heavens opened and we were stuck out there getting pummelled by the rain. We’d seek shelter and wait out the short storm and have another go, only to get saturated again.
We did manage to eventually find it though and just as we did about 10 other people followed us right to it. We were wishing that it could have been the other way around…
Since we were now cold and wet our minds turned to what we really wanted most in the world … a pub with a fireplace. There were a couple of breweries near the caravan park, so we figured we’d try our luck there. The first one was closed … I mean … really … if you had a brewery would you not open it on a Sunday afternoon?
The second one, Mash brewery, was open and doing a fine trade. No open fire though.
We finished off the day with a good feed of Thai, from the local eatery and had a fairly early night.