It's an ironic pun... I started looking at the park and I mean to go back there. I'm going to upload some images of this trip too and I should link you guys up, although you may just see them anyway, I dunno. So what are we talking about? Well on Monday of this week I went to town. Basically the day before a girl from Finland had moved into our room and we got talking. I found out she was from Finland... which is really rare because not only are there only five million peolple in Finland but out here it's what you might call on odd location for them to aim for. So she was here doing university... or actually she had just finished and was heading home but doing so via a few places. She had been in Newcastle (a town above Sydney) and now she had come to Perth for two nights and the next day she would be heading to Singapore for two days and then Thailand.
So here we were waiting at the bus stop in order to get the free bus into town, which we did. Ami (I think thats how you spell it (I only heard it once ?_?)) is from the third largest city in Finland which has a population of something like 300,000 and seeing as Gloucester had a population of 100,000 when I was in year 8 or so you realise the scale of things. She wanted to know what there was to do in Perth and I thought that I would help her out and mostly I was interested by her keeness to look around, seeing as I had so far had a held back approach.
I wasn't sure what to show her but she was going to the information desk anyway. We went there and were told all about these odd places we could go to and things we could see. I will take this moment to tell you all about how hot it was this day. The forecast said it was going to be 34C but let me tell you what it felt like. If you'd just walked into town you couldn't stop in the sun. Your body is relying on the little trickle of wind pushing against you when you're walking to cool down and your body is more relaxed when walking than it is when stopped. I'm not sure why but you can walk in the heat fine but when you stop moving its like someone has just set you on fire and you have to wobble around and pivot when waiting for street lights, which take the biscuit here because they take ages to change. Standing in the shade is little better. You may be out of the blinding rays but the temperature is only a little lower than out in the sun because of the humidity. Anyway, anyway... we were told about a bus to the park called King's park and we decided to do that, but not after she got an ice cream and we had seen some of the cast metal statues that are around here. I joked that I would print off a black and white map and record all the places you find them about the city and let me tell you it is quite a lot. You start to wonder if they just get bored and do this. My favorite is the one with five guys who all look exactly the same except the clothes they wear walking towards an office block.
So we got on the bus and headed out to the park. This is a day in which I was obsessed with drinking. I needed to have some juice or some water during the entire day. I would fill up then instantly want another drink. I felt like I could put my head under the tap for the whole time I was awake, not such a good feeling. We walked past the monuments and tributes and other cool things and headed up to the visitor centre. We looked at some books and objects and I found this book on Aus myths and legends and the first page I turned to told me about convicts... it just would wouldn't it? This is where the girl decided that we should go on the walk tour of the flower gardens and so we did. We were with a few other people, two girls from Germany who were in Perth catching a break from their volunteering job on the east coast. We walked off into the heat and found an oak tree... this was funneh. Basically if they stop watering more than the natural surroundings then it would die. That also went for a lot of the plants around here. The woman kept referring to wonderful nature but I kind of felt that if they didn't do that they would die, which is why you don't see anything else but anyway. We saw some very odd plants and some funny ones. We also saw a statue to the women of the colonies who... were women? Anyway this is what we saw. We learnt about plants and trees they had here and crossed a random bridge, that gave us good views of the bay area and of the park... I have some pictures. I will upload them to my profile on faceboke after this I hope. It was very hot so I kept trying to duck out of the sun and find a drinking fountain. We got mistaken for a couple, which I thought was rich because the only thing we'd done was turn up and I wondered if some people can't help but assume girls and guys can't just be friends but anyway. Then after an hour in the sun I guzzled a lot of water and sighed deeply. We headed back to the bus dtop and the turned up always right away, which is perfect timing considering they come very half an hour.
Back on St Geogre's terrace (yes the one who fought the dragon) we went in search of the cast metal kangaroos drinking from a little water feature and I had some more water from a fountain. Then the day winded down as we walked to the supermarket Coles and back to the hostel... I was very hot and tired by this point but not drained as I never seem to be here, how rare. This is all I can think to say but the pictures should tell you more.
No comments:
Post a Comment