I stayed at home and read and swam. Mick went cray fishing with Claude and some friends who owned the boat ( a commercial cray fishing boat). The photo was taken on Mick's tablet. Hence the glass reflection! They went about 35miles from shore to pull the pots out and then bait them and put them back. They pulled out 98 pots with an average of 10 crays per pot. You can work out the maths. Only 4 in 10 are legal to bring ashore. They had cray fish for lunch which ...

For all our Scottish acquaintances we thought you might like to see this variation on a bagpipe player! He was spewing fire in time with the music. Not sure which clan he belongs to from the kilt! He was playing in Freo near the markets. We went there to meet one of my cousins who lives in Perth and we had lunch in Benny's. Four hours later we we set off for home. This evening we went for coffee and cake to celebrate Rebecca's birthday. It was a scrummy Malteser...

In two weeks time we will be home! Please make the weather better before we arrive as it sounds awful. We have a few quiet days in Perth. We were going to stay with Mick's youngest sister in north Perth but unfortunately they have to work so we are pottering. Monica and Claude are both on holiday so this morning we went out with them. We popped to a sports shop so Mick could buy a Perth Glory shirt - they play soccer which is the same as English football. We th...

At last. I have found somewhere with wifi. Today we went to Fremantle or Freo as it is called here. There are lots of beautiful old buildings here. We went on the big wheel very similar to the London Eye but a smaller version. It went much faster and we went round four times! The view over Perth was spectacular.t