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Originally Posted by iceman
I'm back from Perth, was a nice place to visit. Quite different to Sydney.. much smaller. Also found it strange at the lack of shops/activities down on the waterfront of the Swan River.. a nice long stretch of grass but no cafe's, kids playgrounds, etc.
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Hmm, yes, much smaller and that's a good thing
Interesting comment about the waterfront, I had never thought of that before
We have that kind of thing along the coast a bit, but not along the river. Interesting
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Originally Posted by iceman
I was interested in seeing the funny looking salt ponds (?) from the plane as it headed from Perth to the Great Australian Bight. What are they? They were scattered all over the place.
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They're just salt lake systems. Spread all over southern australia I think? definitely the southern half of WA. Where we travel east to do astronomy we pass many. They can be interesting photographic targets, and they can also be extremely inhospitable.
The ones near where we go are actually part of the same Avon river system & catchment area as the Avon River which flows in to the Swan River. Huge catchment area (this is about 170km east of Perth).
Attached is a close-up of one that has water in it, about 300km from Perth.
Good to hear you survived the trip west