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Month: June 2022

“Betty’s Jetty”: reflections enhance unremarkable erections

Perth’s Elizabeth Quay is a still-unfolding, allegedly “transformative” development.

(you may be unsurprised to know that it is impossible to find any reliable, properly inclusive figure on expenditure to date, let alone of the eventual total. Suffice that its likely-tallest tower component – which involves just two of many edifices –  is estimated at more than one billion Australian dollars)

It is probably our final instance of an Australian megaproject, named after “our” Queen.

According to DevelopmentWAThis landmark waterfront development reconnects Perth city with the Swan River to create a dynamic new entertainment and leisure precinct, set around a stunning 2.7ha inlet.

According to one recent Singaporean visitor, Nothing much to see here,…Boring walk from Elizabeth Quay to Barrack Jetty as well. Your best bet would be to take the Transperth ferry to South Perth for better views of the city.

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Heavy metal pachyderm “remembers” last living male…

Unsurprisingly, a deal of Perth’s abundant street art celebrates Western Australia’s own extraordinary flora and fauna.

Thanks to sculptors and muralists, you can see kangaroos in the CBD’s main thoroughfare, endangered cockatoos vividly adorn more than a few walls and fences, and oversized orchids, kangaroo paws and banksias “bloom” on others.

Near to the South Perth foreshore’s colossal frill-necked lizard and numbat, proudly stands a singular, much more elaborate metal sculpture.

It was made in the WA wheatbelt, but depicts – anatomically correctly – an “iconic” African animal.

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