So on our last day in Western Australia- we started with a trip the Fremantle market – an extremely cool covered market that had all kinds of local foods and crafts..For breakfast we enjoyed a fantastic sausage roll, a Greek spanakopita and Bee and Jay housed a few awesome cupcakes.   One of the highlights was another honey tasting with a woman who had over 3 decades of beekeeping and honey experience – she was very impressed with Jay and Bee’s taste buds.

After that we toured a few attractions in Perth- 1st an awesome shipwreck museums..100’s of ships have wrecked off the Western Australia coast (not so surprising after seeing the crazy surf this week) – and this museum has the remains (treasures, cannons even whole planks) of many including a few almost entirely assembled.. Of particular note was the Dutch East India Ship (VOC) Batavia, which has a crazy story of surviving on a desert island and mutiny of a crew.

Next stop was the oldest building in Western Australia, the Fremantle Round House – a prison that was built back in 1831.  Dad even got put into the shackles….

But the definite highlight of the day was Be’s pick- the Bell Tower of Perth.  Built as part of Australia’s centennial celebration in 2001- it houses a complete set of bells borrowed from a church in England.   These bells are played by skilled ringers every week, but they let us give it a whirl..tugging up and down on giant ropes rocks the bells back and forth – and each person operates one bell to play a different pitch (16 in all- the largest weighing almost 2.5 T)..Interestingly, the real bells ringers start with the bells upside down- so one big pull makes it ring just one time.  The tower also housed bells from different religions and the oldest bell in Australia- that has a crack in it reminiscent of our favorite bell back in Philadelphia.

After a nice walk along the Perth waterfront (and a really cool pedestrian bridge) we said our goodbyes to an awesome week down under in Western Australia- even flying off into a beautiful sunset!