Part 2 of Freo Day.  Read the post below first.

So after I walked around the markets, I headed down to the Roundhouse (the old Freo Jail) to get some sunset pics.  Get ready.

1.  This is that same main drag in Freo but better than the other one.  Gotta love lens flare.

2. This is the lightouse out on the breakers.  Through a bush.  When my camera was acting up again. It was actually much darker out than it seems.

3.  This one is my favorite out of all of them.  Up by the Roundhouse, there’s this weird mast-like thing, and I got it from the bottom of the hill at just the right lighting with the sun and shadows and all that.  It just looks fantastic.

4.  This is the lighter version of the earlier one.  

5. Fremantle is Perth’s main port, and this is one of those huge cranes to lift things off of the ships.  You get a great view of the whole port from up there, and the sun just made it look amazing.

6.   One of the wires holding up the mast thing attached to the little post I was on, so I tried to take a picture going up the wire. The only problem was that the wind was blowing so hard that the wire would make my camera rattle if it touched the wire, ruining the shot.  So I had to not be exactly on the wire which would’ve made this cooler.

7.  Another Crane Pic.

8.  This is a really cool facade of once was probably a really cool old building.  Apparently, the rest of the building was torn down or something and converted into a parking lot, but they kept this one piece of facade to… block the cars?  I don’t know but it looks really cool to me.

9.  If you take a picture of construction equipment at the right angle, it can look like one object that looks like a a blue spider.  Instead of two different crane-lift things.

10.  All around Australia, I’ve seen really weird signs.  Most of them are actually real signs, like the ones previously seen on here like the baby one, the getting obliterated by a train one, and of course, kangaroo crossing signs.  But this is one of those modified signs, one that actually seems to describe the picture better than the original sign.  Bravo to whomever though of this one. 

And so ends my day in Freo.  Yet, that wasn’t the end of my adventure.  After getting dinner at Hungry Jacks (Australia’s Burger King: Long story there for some other time), I stopped at this really cool bookstore to see what they had.  Knowing me, I stayed there for an hour and a half perusing the shelves.  I came thisclose to buying Infinite Jest, which surely would’ve lasted me a week. Maybe.  But I ended up getting another David Foster Wallace book (because I just think that at my new age of 22, I should be getting into that kinda thing.  We’ll see how that goes) and some other book.  Realizing that I had about two minutes to get on the very last bus back to Curtin, I ran for the bus stop.  I saw a bus that started with 9 (knowing that I wanted the 99 bus at 7:06 and it was a bus that began with 9 and it was 7:06) and got on.  Being the person I am, I began to read my book and promptly fell asleep on the bus.  I woke up and it was dark out of course, and the problem is that all of Perth looks the exact same.  So I couldn’t really tell where I was at all.  Oh, and it doesn’t say ANYWHERE inside the bus as to what bus it is, or where it’s going.  Anyway, long story short, I began to get worried because I wasn’t recognizing anything, so I got my phone out and discovered I was in Rockingham.  Which is about twice the distance from Curtin to Fremantle, PAST fremantle.  The bus finally stopped at the Rockingham train station, where I got out in a daze, and got on the next bus back to Canning Bridge, where the buses stopped running because it’s a Sunday and it’s Australia, so I had to walk across the bridge to get a Taxi back to Curtin.  Long story short, it was an adventure in itself trying to get home.  But I’m back and had a good day.

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I decided to go on a solo venture into Freo today.  Here are some pictures as a travelogue of the day.

1. On the bus, my camera was acting weird with regards to exposure settings so I mindlessly shot this, hoping it would work and it did.  The smudges are graffiti made by “graffidiots” as Transperth calls them. I like the clouds..

2. This is what most of the market looks like.  Lots of people, small alleyways and people selling pretty much everything you’d ever need.

3. One of the coolest stores sells only recycled things.  Yep, Vinyl Purses.  If only I were a girl.  They also have recycled tire (not tyre you crazy Aussies) wallets and milk carton coin purses.  Vinyl clocks and all sorts of other things.

4.  These are THE coolest thing in the market.  Replica helmets made with real leather!  They’re really awesome and comfortable too.  I totally want one. They say not for safety use, but who cares? I’d wear one of these driving a car and not feel self-conscious at all because I know I’d be the coolest person on the road.

5.  Happy Mother’s Day Mom!

6.  This is the Rock Bagpiper.  There’s this street performer area outside the market and he was playing when I got there.  In my time watching him (and his pretty hot girlfriend hawking his CDs, and telling people about how he was on Australia’s Got Talent) he rocked out everything from AC/DC to The Flintstones theme.  Complete with pelvic thrusting.

7. This is the building the Market is in.  I really love the architecture of it, with the bricks and the tan parts and the columns.  It really gives the appearance of something that’s been there forever.  Which is probably has..

8. Another great architecture/design place.  This is a little shopping plaza in the middle of a block.  Multiple levels and loud colors. It’s a great place to sit with some ice cream and just people-watch.  Lots of cool restaurants upstairs and stores on the bottom. It’s really breezy, cool and kinda funky.

9.  The main drag of Freo. Not a great picture because of the lighting, but it gives you a look at what Freo is like.  Nothing over two or three stories, lots of small business and cool places and bars and restaurants.  Very funky and hip.  It’s a lot like Little Five Points in Atlanta, but not as “out-there”.  Bigger though.  It’s the kinda place that would be really cool to live in just out of college.

Stay tuned for Part 2. Which will appear above this post.  But make sure you read this one first.  The next one will be mostly sunsets, but you’ll just have to deal with it.  I know the four people who actually read this will anyway but still..