Day 69 Perth
In the morning, we went into Fremantle to look around. The first place we went to was the Round House. The Round House is an old prison and the oldest standing building in Western Australia. It had a courtyard with a well in the middle that was possibly the oldest well in Australia. Around the courtyard, it had a lot of cells which were transformed into information plaques. If you looked out the door, you could see down the whole street. We then walked around Fremantle and went to a ship museum. It had a lot of information on Dirk Hartog, who was the first European to land in Australia. There was also a big part of a ship’s hull that had crashed on the Ningaloo Reef, and they had salvaged the wooden planks from its hull. After the museum, we walked down the street and got lunch at a small cafe. When we got back to the car, a 2-million-dollar Shelby Cobra drove right past us. The Cobra is a very iconic car that many collectors spend millions to get. I couldn’t get a picture of it because I wasn’t ready, and it drove by fast, but it was pretty cool. It was definitely the most expensive car I have seen in person. We drove into Mandurah. Mandurah is known for its really expensive mansions that back onto canals with dolphins in them. When we got there, we saw a bunch of electric cars parked in a show area and I think it was a bunch of companies advertising their cars. I got to sit in a Tesla, and it was pretty nice. I was surprised by how there was no buttons or dials or really anything on the centre console, glove box, etc. We took a look at the houses, and they were really big. We found a 3-storey house with a big pool in it that went over the canal. The house was for sale, and it cost low 3 million dollars. After looking at the houses, we went back to the van and swam in the pool again. We stayed there for a while and went to bed after we got back.

The well in the round house with cells in the middle

All the houses in Mandurah on the canals
