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Fremantle
2024 August 3 (Saturday), 11:00AM
· Fremantle · bridges ·

More demolition photos from this morning, although this time not quite. The old traffic bridge is being prepared for being gone.

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  High pressure gas pipe?

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  Where Beach Street was

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  Bridge railing

Fremantle
2024 August 3 (Saturday), 10:40AM
· Fremantle · demolition ·

There's a little house on Curedale Street that looks like it's about to get demolished:

And the development of 'Monument' (or next door to it) is getting going:

But there's of course no action yet on the old bunkering site (which is fine; the bush there is nice):

Fremantle
2024 July 27 (Saturday), 10:37AM
· Wikimedia · photography · cafes · Fremantle ·

I'm trying out a new cafe in Fremantle, called Elske. It's all nice and new and clean and tidy… but so far it seems a bit too cavernous and loud for me. I'm sure they'll figure out the furnishing; it must be hard leasing a massive empty room like this and trying to turn it in to a good place to hang out. This was the temporary post office (after the old one got its roof blown in) and so maybe I'm just relating it to that still. The coffee is pretty good.

I've been out taking some photos for the July challenge on Wikimedia Commons: manholes (I'm not sure how the usually non-gendered-language wiki world is handling the naming of that). There are a bunch of late 19th century J. & E. Ledger cast iron manholes around Fremantle, so I got some pics of the ones on William, Short, and Phillimore Streets.

Corner of Phillimore and Packenham Streets:

Short Street:

William Street:

Two Rocks
2024 July 27 (Saturday), 8:00AM

A day out on the trains to explore the new Yanchep railway station and have lunch at Two Rocks.

The new station is very shiny and spacious. It'd been raining, and there seemed to be a variation in the rate of drying of different parts of the brick forecourt. And a few bits of interesting public art (although the acoustic one in the walk way is maybe just an accident of design; it was fun though).

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  Boojah to Wardan

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  Plaque for previous

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  Park, not yet open

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  Echo chamber

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  Bus station

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  Manhole, because of the July Challenge

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  Clever curbs to reduce the wear on bus tyres

The marina, which annoyingly perfectly obscures the horizon, has been there for a long time but has a lot of new piers etc.

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  The end of this road is the north end of Perth

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Fremantle
2024 July 23 (Tuesday), 5:28PM

Building a less terrible URL shortener by The Lego Mirror, 23 July 2024:

URL shorteners are generally a bad idea for a few main reasons:

• They obfuscate the actual link destination, making it harder to figure out where a link will take you.
• If they disappear or are shut down, the link is broken, even if the destination is fully functional.
• They often collect extra tracking/analytics information.

Fremantle
2024 July 21 (Sunday), 6:21PM

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  Walyalup civic centre all lit up

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  The dismal remaining deposit slip desk of the old Bendigo Bank branch

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  Johnson Court from the alley off Point Street

Fremantle
2024 July 21 (Sunday), 4:46PM

I took a bunch of photos of the oval, despite the sun not wanting to do the nice warm thing it was doing just before I got there. There's a whole area of natural limestone cliff at the back, mostly hidden by signs, as well as the seven huge Morton Bay figs, and there's the scoreboard, and the far corner where nothing much happens. I'd wondered if the Knowle was visible from there but of course there's that building in the way.

The light has gone away, which probably means it's time to go to the pub, before Victoria Hall.

Fremantle
2024 July 21 (Sunday), 4:04PM
· Fremantle · power poles ·

It's rainy and windy and a bit cold, but I seem to be heading into Freo to go to the Freo Society meeting about the oval development.

The power poles looked nice against the grey sky, and I guess at some point the sight of aerial wires like these will be rare (although some of these are HV so they'll be around a bit longer I think, than the LV ones to houses).