Free in Fremantle

There is a long term advantage in being overlooked . . . if you are a small town. Fremantle has retained its boom time (late 1800s) buildings which have now been lovingly restored by young trendies. 

The statue in the foreshore park that was put up to celebrate some local explorers who heroically died while tangling with the "natives" has a recently added plaque that says, in effect, "don't forget the people that they killed." All very PC. 

The Norfolk Island pines are very tall and healthy.

We visited the Maritime Museum (didn't see cousin Doug's name anywhere). It has a special exhibition of the last day of Pompei which was good. Otherwise it rather reminded me of the Broome museum. . . . crammed full. I had not realised that Fremantle was a submarine base in WWII. it is hard to remember that Perth is closer to SE Asia than the east coast. 

Here you are reminded of that by the number of Malaysian restaurants, not to mention that the majority of tourists from that region.