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Popular Off the Beaten Path | Miscellaneous Off the Beaten Path Tips | All Tips (51) Looking for something different to do on a summer Sunday afternoon? Why not take yourself down to the Fremantle Arts Centre for one of their free Courtyard Concerts? From November through to early April, the shady courtyard makes a great venue for a varied programme of concerts where everyone is welcome and everyone has a good time.
Bring a picnic and a bottle of wine or buy lunch or a coffee from the cafe, spread a rug or sit on one of the benches or chairs provided and just relax under the spreading plane trees.
Come early and browse through the excellent craft shop, take wander through the museum, check out the galleries for an art exhibition - you could spend most of your day here within these old limestone walls.
Fremantle Arts Centre: 1 Finnerty Street, Fremantle
Concerts: 2-4pm Sundays, check the website for the concert and exhibition programme, map and other information about the Centre Leave a Comment Phone: (08) 9432 9555Website: http://www.fac.org.au/music/
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The John Grahm reserve is part of Woodman Point Regional park, about 10 mins drive south along Cockburn (pronounced co-burn) Road from Fremantle.
There are several entrances along Cockburn Road, to the Park, Woodman Point itself and carvan parks.
For the reserve turn off Cockburn Road at Nyerbup Road .
\WARNING.-SLOW DOWN FOR THE SILENT POLICE MAN (SPEED BUMPS), THEY'RE VERY SHARP. If you have a car with low suspension, drive VERY slowly.
Drive for a minute or two along the little winding road and you will come to a beautiful picnic area (it's a good road and proper tar-sealed car park).
There is a large grassed area that's watered so it's green all summer, big trees, shade pergolas, picnic tables, free electric BBQ's and decent toilets.
On the far side of the reseve is the beach and Woodman Point Jetty. Older chilren often jump from the jetty into the water, there's a ladder to get back up.
It's a very popular place for family outings/picnics, swimming, fishing, scuba diving, kite surfing etc.
There's also an historic campsite (from World War 2) and nature trials if you want to walk.
There's no shop here, but on other side of Cockburn road, if you go up Fairbairn Road, there's the Lighthouse deli that sells everthing you're likely to want while you're there, including good coffee and bait. We had a fishermans basket (fish, crab stck, scallop, calmari and chips) for $7.50, large and delicious. Leave a Comment Website: http://www.naturebase.net/national_parks/previous_parks_month/woodman_point_rp.html
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| | | | Time for a swim | Tip Rating: | | | | |
How many city's around the world have a swimming beach just at the end of the main street? Bather's Beach in Fremantle is just that, a little sandy cove that has important historical meaning for both the traditional owners of this land, the Nyoongar people, and the white settlers who arrived from Britain in 1829 and made their first landing on Western Australian soil right here.
Known as Manjaree by the Nyoongar, and featuring in their dreamtime stories that tell of how the islands and coastal features here were formed by the sea rising and falling as an age of ice came and went, this was where Capt. Thomas Fremantle raised the flag and claimed the whole of Australia's west coast for the British crown. After this the beach was used for bay whaling (the tunnel through the cliff behind the beach was used for access to the town by the whalers - though never for dragging whales through as some people believe) and as a dumping ground for ballast and ultimately left neglected and deserted until a determined group of local artists began a campaign that saw the beach cleaned up, a limestone staircase built to link the cliff to the beach, indigenous vegetation replanted, the original shoreline marked out and part of the original wooden jetty rebuilt to include ceramic inserts and the story of the area illustrated with inlaid tiles (Joan Campbell, a master potter who had her studio in an old limestone building on the beach, was the driving force behind all this).
The beach runs from the South Mole around to the Fisherman's Harbour. Whilst it's popular with local people for swimming, visitors need to be aware that there are no lifesaver patrols here and the nearest changing rooms and showers are across the railway line in the Esplanade park, so you might prefer to just visit the beach here and go elsewhere for a swim. Leave a Comment
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| | | | Watch the kiteboarders at Woodman Point. | Tip Rating: | | | | |
Kiteboarding(kitesurfing) is becoming very popular, almost taking over from windsurfing.
For those who've not heard of it, it involves using a special 'kite' to pull you along on a board similar to a body board.
On the day these pics were taken, the sea was quite calm, but when there's bigger waves, they leap many feet into the air, and the best may spin and turn most attractively.
It's quite delightful to watch, but don't expect to see much if there's not a fair breeze, they won't fly if there's not enough wind. They take advantage of the "Fremantle Doctor", the afternnon sea breeze, (sometimes more like gale on the beach) which comes in during late morning/early afternoon during summer. It makes the temperature on the coast drop by several degrees. When it's 35c, that's worth having! Leave a Comment
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One of the local icons in North Fremantle is the silo which has a giant red dingo on one side that is rumoured to have been painted by Alan Bond in his younger days when he was a sign-writer. The Mill was originally called the Great Southern Roller Flour Mill.
Location : Stirling Highway North Fremantle Leave a Comment
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South Beach is a popular beach just a few minutes south of Fremantle but not really the best for surfing. More popular is windsurfing or surf-skiing or just relaxing on the sand. It is also a dog beach. There is car parking, with only a couple of minutes walk over the sand dunes to the beach, and a kiosk. In its past, South Beach was the venue for the State’s first horse race back in October 1883. In 1990 it was opened as a mixed bathing beach and became known as the ‘Brighton of the West’. There was a picture theatre, roller skating rink, camping facilities and a promenade. There are none of those things now but South Beach is one of the safest swimming beaches in Perth and a great place to watch the sunset. Leave a Comment
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