Archive for year: 2022

Bathers Beach To Host Australian Refugee installation
Fremantle will see a special celebration at Bathers Beach this Saturday afternoon, 10 December to mark 75 years since the…
Join Soroptimist’s Big Christmas Wrap – A Wonderful Cause
Many Freo folk know that Soroptimist International Fremantle is a wonderfully active Freo women’s organisation that supports women and girls.…
Cruise Ships, Cargo Ships and a Submarine bring Visitors to Freo and Rockingham
It has all been happening! CRUISE NEWS Last week as part of CruiseFest, we had four cruise ships in town;…
‘Stealthiest Warship’ AKA Ocean Trader In Port
Now, here’s a mystery ship - a ship that hardly exists! Well, it exists, but doesn’t advertise its existence, or…
Interview with Murray Slavin – Fighter Pilot Architect
Murray Slavin is a director of the well-known Fremantle architectural practice, Slavin Architects - and a long-time Fremantle resident. [caption…
Covid stats as of 1 December
WA Health is reporting a total of 11,762 new cases in the past week to 4pm yesterday 1 December 2022.…
Noordam Joins The CruiseFest!
Four – ‘knock at the door’, as they say in Bingo. MS Noordam is the fourth cruise ship to knock…
69 Days From LA, Regatta Arrives for CruiseFest Week
The Regatta cruise ship arrived today at 2 pm. Lots of ship spotters were out to welcome her. She is…
At Sea With The Conversationalist – Part 1
As I write, Seabourn Encore is sailing down the Red Sea having left the Jordanian port of Aqaba with over…
The Queen Elizabeth – From All Angles, North and South!
Well, the Cunard cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth, arrived in Freo this morning just before 11. She was, as you might…