The sun rises in the east and sets in the west.īy all rights, anyone on the west coast would be able to enjoy a lazy evening watching the sun set over the ocean. Everyone elsewhere gets confused about where the sun sets in Perth ↠ RELATED: THE BEST PLACES TO VISIT IN AUSTRALIA The sun does not set over this side of Kings Park. Some suggestions are Perthies, Perthlings (the space theme ties in nicely with Hobart’s Hobartians), Perthons of Interest and my favourite – Perthonalities. There’s Melburnians, Sydneysiders, Canberrans… what about the people who live out west?Įveryone seems to have differing views on what it should be. My Perth friends and I have had many discussions on what to call people who hail from the Western capital city. There’s a lot of desert in WA, so this makes sense.Īs such, the colloquial term for Western Australians is “Sandgropers”. Sandgropers are subterranean insects that are found across mainland Australia, but predominantly in Western Australia, inhabiting sand dunes and plains. Western Australians are known as Sandgropers Here are a few ideas for day trips from Perth. The city isn’t as far as you’d think from some mighty interesting sights. It’s quiet, it’s clean and when you drive out of the city, it doesn’t take long until you’re surrounded by sweet nothingness, which is certainly something to be valued. Perth certainly feels remote in many ways, when you’re there. It also gives you an idea of just how big Australia is. The city is closer in distance to the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, rather than Sydney or Australia’s capital of Canberra. This might not be entirely true, as there are a few other contenders, but it’s probably the remotest city of its size. Many talk about Perth being the most isolated city in the world. Perth is closer to Jakarta than Canberra or Sydney When they aren’t in a tangle with those sinister box jellyfish, they are out racing cane toads.↠ RELATED: 20 AUSTRALIAN URBAN LEGENDS AND MYTHS Gotta love a building with a bit of Perth-onality (no apologies). Cane toad racing is a real sportĪgain up north where the locals can go a bit troppo. Get into and bear hug with one of these northern tropical marine nasties and you may have a minute or two to write your will. Snakes, sharks, spiders and oh yeah… the box jellyfish. That’s right if the snakes and sharks aren’t enough to get your skin crawling, try counting Aussie spiders – one for every beach! 9. Who ate all the pies? We did!Īustralians eat 260+ million meat pies every year, more than 12 per head (Seriously is that all? – Ed). But not all is lost the wood has been preserved as a monument (above) and the tree has been cloned. It still stood until it was poisoned in an act of vandalism in 2006. The eucalypt came to be known as the ‘Tree of Knowledge’. The first branch meeting of the Australian Labor Party, said to be Australia’s first political party, was held under a gum tree in Barcaldine, Queensland in 1891, in response to a sheep shearers’ strike. 5. You call that a farm?Īustralia’s largest cattle station (that’s a farm or a ranch to you visitor folk), Anna Creek, is 24,000 square km, making it bigger than Cyprus, Fiji, East Timor, Slovenia and Israel. In one day, Postman Barry flies 1,450km in nine hours with 10 stops, from Cairns to Cape York in Queensland.
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