My town

Last weekend Bantam Boy needed to take some photos of an urban setting for an art project. So we spent the afternoon dashing about town taking photos. Some are taken from the car as we dash about. Others we stopped and I kept the motor running and knitted as he walked about taking snaps here and there. At one stage where parking was readily available (Freo is impossible on sunny sunday afternoons!) I parked and hopped out and played photographer too.

But I must give credit to Bantam Boy as the main creative force behind these shots.

I thought seeing as I now have hundreds of photos of my home town on the computer I'd take you on a tour of my place. I was born here, grew up here- wandered a little and returned.

This is 'the old bridge' it separates the river and the harbour.

harbour....
...river.
I lived just up from here when I went to high school between the old and the new bridge(You can see it here Bantam boy is standing on a wooden plank under the old bridge, people fish from it). I spent many hours along here. One time we were in a rubber dingy Just near 'the new bridge' when we spied a shark fin. we paddled in frantically only to realise that we could have been playing with a pod of friendly dolphins. I also had an epic unrequited crush on a most quirky fellow who lived beyond the new bridge. So I took to walking my poor little Australian silky terrier on the long walk past his house. Sometimes I'd be brave and pop in to say hi because although he did not return my feelings we did 'hang out in the same group of friends.' Poor dog she had such short little legs and it was quite a walk. No wonder I was very thin in those days.

(Arty Shot)

"The old bridge" is made of wood it was the 'old bridge' when I was very young and they started to build the 'new bridge' only about 1km up. As little kids my sister and I logically reasoned that they needed to build a new one because the old one was old and therefore not good. We held our breath every time we had to drive across it!

That will do for now I'll do some more later, I really should go into work while there are other people there this morning. (After being threatened with being stabbed I don't fancy going in on my own!)