As promised, here are some pictures of the beautiful houses built beside the Mandurah canals.  There have to be a lot of very rich people out there that can afford to live there.  I'm certainly not one of them.

See here for an aerial view of the canals.


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We've just experienced  Perth's driest and hottest summer on record. Last Sunday we decided to get out of the house for the day and go somewhere a bit cooler.  We caught a train into Perth, then another on to Mandurah (pronounced Man-joor-ah).

Mandurah sits at the entrance to the Peel Inlet/Harvey Estuary, about 80km south of where we live.  It was ( Read more... )