Augusta, Emily Taylor, and Freo!

Freo Today. 27 October 2026. Did you know the sailing ship Emily Taylor landed settlers at Augusta on 2 May 1830, and then 19 days later was wrecked at South Bay, Fremantle? True as. Here’s a plaque at Augusta recording the Augusta arrival. The best record of the calamitous end of the Emily Taylor today is her namesake restaurant in Freo! Oh, the ship in the distance in this pic? It’s the cruise ship Coral Geographer at anchor just off Augusta and Flinders Bay today, having departed Fremantle Friday bound for Albany and beyond.