Archive for year: 2021

Greg Baker Flies High!
There are so many fetes, bazaars and exhibitions of one sort and another just now around Freo, you’d be forgiven…
REVIEW OF “GOULDIAN, THE WORLD’S MOST BEAUTIFUL FINCH” BY COL ROBERTS
Escaping Covid lockdowns hundreds a brand-new four-wheel-drives have traversed, mainly, the bitumen roads of the Kimberley in Western Australia. Most…
Don’t Miss The ‘Shady Booze Hounds’ !
Talk about an eye-catching exhibition title! You just want to see it , don’t you? It opens Thursday this week…
Seen In Freo … At The South Freo Dog Beach
Perfect weather this weekend. A little less hot than feared, with a gentle south westerly in, but hot enough for…
The Research Vessel “Pax” – What A Story!
Inside she looked and smelled like the Black Hole of Calcutta, yet I felt like I had found a Rembrandt…
Places I Love – Meelup Regional Park
You don’t have to go all the way to Broome to see the ‘Staircase to the Moon’ spectacle – we…
Book Review – Goldfields Girl
Goldfields Girl, written by Elaine Forrestal and published by Fremantle Press (2020), is based on an historically verified, handwritten manuscript…
Book Review – Little Jiang
Mei’s teacher at Honeywood Primary School thought it a very imaginative story and the class were silent when Mei told…
Book Review – My Place For Younger Readers
Many Freo people will remember reading Sally Morgan’s My Place when it was published over 30 years ago, and now…
They don’t make boats like this anymore!
Opening this Saturday, 4 December 2021 and running until Sunday 1 May 2022 at the WA Shipwrecks Museum at the…