Perth, Western Australia January 31, 2018

I guess the koala didn't trust me...

A cute little guy though.

 He seemed to like Judy.

Petting the koala.

Whereas the wombat liked me...

Do you like her?

The kangaroo wants you to rub his belly.

This kangaroo has a baby in her pouch.

A kangaroo baby is called a "Joey."

Off to the Lobster Shack for lunch.

Crates and crates of fresh catch Australian lobster.  This facility accounts for fully 20% of all fish (not just lobster) caught in all of Australia.

The lunch was great!

After lunch we went to the Pinnacles, limestone formations within Nambung National Park, near the town of Cervantes, Western Australia. Here's the Wikipedia link.

They say there's nothing like these Pinnacles anywhere else in the world.

We wandered around the Pinnacles before going to the sand dunes.  See below:

These giant sand dunes reminded me of the dunes I encountered many years ago in Tan Tan, Morocco, in the Sahara Desert.

 Although we were in a "military grade" 4WD Mercedes, it broke down when descending a large dune and we had to be rescued by a tow truck and transferred to a bus to return to our hotel.

Perth, Western Australia January 30, 2018

Some of the animals encountered in Australia: first, a monkey.

A red kangaroo.

Another red kangaroo.

A numbat.

A koala.

Another koala.

Another koala.

A grey kangaroo.

Another grey kangaroo.

And another grey kangaroo.

A dingo.

Perth, Australia January 29, 2018

We arrived in Perth, Western Australia yesterday, and today we decided to take a train to Fremantle.  Fremantle is the port for Perth, and during World War II it was the largest submarine base in the Southern Hemisphere. My father's submarine, the Haddo, was based in Fremantle and I wanted to check out the Maritime Museum to see if there were any records of the Haddo.  Judy was kind enough to accompany me.

The train.

The Maritime Museum in Fremantle.

The submarine on display is similar to the Haddo.

The plaque commemorating the submarines based in Fremantle, Western Australia, during World War II.  If you look closely at the third column of submarine names you will see the Haddo and her sister ship the Harder. Here is the Wikipedia entry for the Haddo.

Unfortunately, the Submarine Museum was closed for structural repairs.  So the only information available about the Haddo was contained on the plaque.

A picture of Judy overlooking Fremantle Port.

A picture of Jim at the museum.

On the way back we stopped at Cottlesloe Beach.  There are many beautiful beaches in Western Australia.

Cottlesloe Beach.

A view from the Cottlesloe beach house.

We took the train back to Perth and called it a day.