21st July 2014
Driving in suburban traffic seemed very odd today! We have decided to stay Caversham, an outer suburb of Perth in the Swan valley. There are vineyards all around. Caversham is handy to Guildford railway station for a 30 minute trip into Perth city, but also handy to a large range of national parks to the east which we plan to visit if and when the rain stops.
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| Set up for the next week or so |
Rain showers on and off all day today so we just made a quick visit to Guildford which was originally a town in it's own right but has since become a suburb of Perth. Guildford was established on the navigable Swan river in 1829.
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| 2 room cottage in Guildford in which a family of 13 children was raised! |
The land was fertile so it soon became an important hub for agriculture and industry. Later in the century the Midland railway was installed running right through the centre of town, bisecting it. I don't know why this happened rather than routing the railway a bit further south.
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