Zinkwazi

Rules are simple – go to closest station, get on first train that arrives and stay on it till end of the line or something along the way attracts your attention. Best played in a city like Singapore but we are in Perth so ended up in Mandurah. We bought a family rider and for AU$8.40 we can use any Transperth train or bus – really good value as we must have dome +150km.

Mandurah is a seaside town – we are amazed at the tides – 75cm between high and low, almost no tide compared to our big NZ tides of over 3m. We caught a bus from the train station down to the foreshore and walked along the foreshore. We had lunch of beer, fish & chips (listed in order of importance) went to the information centre and picked up some brochures and the caught the train.

For the fun of it we rode train to the end of the line to Clarkson and then back again to Glendalough. We’d started at Leederville, but my map reading showed that Glendalough was about the same walk and I keep explaining to Rob that the first rule of the road is that you can never go and come home the same way.  

Unfortunately we only had an area map and so followed the bus route (which are not usually the most direct route) and got home at 7:00 p.m. At least we did our 10,000 steps.  As we’d had a late lunch we had cheeses & biscuits for supper and early to bed. 

During our stay we are looking after Mischca (an adopted greyhound), Chad and Boise (cats). We have been concerned that Mischca gets on the the couch at night and sleeps there instead of her bed. I don’t think dogs on chairs is a good idea and suspect she does it because she is cold. So we’ve taught her to sleep in the main bed under the duvet – I think she really likes the 400-count Egyptian sheets and is quite warm under the down duvet.