Whiteman Park

23rd July 2014

Plenty of rain again today so we decided to go somewhere with indoor as well as outdoor attractions.

Stand of paperbarks

Whiteman Park is a great facility and at it's centre is a 'village' containing three transport museums, a tramway and a railway all of which contain working vehicles. There is also a water park, children's playgrounds, craft shops and a cafe set among picnic tables and lawns.  Around this is more natural bush with walks.

The rain held off long enough to go on one of these walks amongst the jarrah, banksia and paperbark trees.

An early bicycle with timber tyres

We visited both the transport museum and the motor museum.  All the restorations and the operation of the trams and trains is done by enthusiastic volunteers and hobbyists.

Ring necked parrot

A cheeky ring neck parrot was determined to share our lunch and when he didn't get any took to stripping timber off the picnic table!