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- 1 - ANZAC DAY 2019

COPIES of ‘Monument Hill 1928-2018’ On February 26 this year, the will be available in Fremantle on Fremantle History Society invited Anzac Day. StreetWise to talk on the colourful history of Monument Hill, the sunset All donations All donations towards providing the appropriate setting for the special commemorative the Society meeting. publication go to Legacy WA. Friends of Monument Hill convenor Published by StreetWise Media and Claudia Green also provided an reprinted by the City of Fremantle, update on the City’s review of the the limited edition booklet site’s 2009 conservation plan. celebrates the 90th anniversary of Ms Green, who lives opposite MONUMENTAL LEGACY the unveiling of the war memorial in the memorial park, said the 1928. comprehensive plan, “makes wonderful reading and a fascinating THE Fallen Sailors and Soldiers The central sandstone pillar and The Kings Park war memorial account of the social history plaques pay homage to the war commemorates its 90th anniversary attached to the Hill that goes back to Memorial foundation stone was laid dead, including the names of the on November 24 this year. the 1880s, and the gold rush days. on Anzac Day 1928. 849 Fremantle ‘boys’ killed in WW1. “The conservation plan is now The completed monument was Their names, which were inscribed nearly 10 years out of date and unveiled on Armistice Day the same on Monument Hill at the start of needs review to ensure this reserve year. continues to be maintained in the Anzac centenary keeping with its special purpose. Monument Hill in 2015, were to be included on the (formerly Obelisk “Monument Hill Memorial Reserve original memorial requires social and financial Hill) was vested design, but there was investment and is as important as as a park in 1904. no room (detailed in any other part of Fremantle history”. Families have ‘Monument Hill - 1928- gathered here ever 2018’). Additional details on the new since to remember, StreetWise web page at The reserve is Crown reflect, watch their www.streetwisemedia.com.au. land, the majority children roll down vested in the City for, ‘Monument Hill 1928-2018’ is available the grassy slopes at 18 Norfolk Street, Fremantle ’Contemplation of Memorials, Look- while newlyweds say, “I do”. or contact StreetWise Media on out, Landscape and the Community’. Interestingly, small portions of 0468608503 or The State heritage-listed treasure [email protected]. Bateman Street and the intersection covers 4.45ha and is listed on of Swanbourne and High streets Digital copies of the booklet will be the City of Fremantle’s municipal were, for historic reasons, vested as published online. heritage inventory. a road reserve.

- 2 - - 3 - 1829 HORSES AND GHOST TOWNS ONE of two planned highways to the artefacts, including the possible Western Australia’s early settlers lived and died at ‘Clarence Town’ Outer Harbour will run either into the graves of up to 40 people, left near Woodman Point from 1829 to 1831. horse exercise beach south of Alcoa behind by nearly 500 settlers who StreetWise visited the State heritage-listed site near Fremantle jetty in Kwinana or a State heritage- arrived here in three ships including where one of two highways is proposed for the Outer Harbour. listed ‘treasure’ opposite the Naval Gilmore (December 15, 1829); Base shacks site overlooking Hooghly (February 12, 1830); and More on Pages 20-25. Cockburn Sound. Rockingham (May 14, 1831).

Abandoned and undisturbed for The site (marked option 2 in the nearly two centuries, ‘Clarence graphic below) also is significant Town’ was established in 1829 by to the Nyungar people who moved between estuaries and water British pioneer Thomas Peel, who sources along the coast, including later abandoned the site. Woodman Point. Also known as ‘Peel Town’, Peel is said to have lived on the archaeologists working at the bush coastal cliff edge now occupied by site in Beeliar Regional Park near the Naval Base shacks. Mount Brown have unearthed stone and timber buildings and cultural Continued pages 20-25.

Will the proposed Outer Harbour destroy one of WA’s first colonial sites overlooking Cockburn Sound? Established months after Sir James Stirling arrived in WA, the undisturbed bush site established by British pioneer Thomas Peel was abandoned by 1831.

Up to 40 people died here, mostly women and children, their remains believed to be still buried at the historic ghost town.

- 4 - - 5 - PILBARA POWERHOUSE

KARRATHA CITY THE ‘Powerhouse of the Pilbara’ celebrates 50 years since it was gazetted a town. Freo StreetWise visited Karratha City and - having survived the worst cyclone “WE want to become Australia’s “Rio, BHP, FMG are talking 100 years in decades - compiled these stories and images of one most liveable regional city. So our of exports. Woodside is talking 50 of the oldest landscapes on Earth. vision is to create a place where years more gas. So we have 50 to Details on the new StreetWise web page at people want to live.” 100 years of certainty. Our vision is www.streetwisemedia.com.au. to create a place where people want That’s the City’s new ‘Karratha is to live, invest and do business.” Calling’ vision, Mayor Peter Long and CEO Chris Adams told Freo StreetWise.

“We are a vital part of the economy of the State and the nation,” the mayor offers. “Karratha exports about $45 billion a year in oil and gas, iron ore and salt.”

Mr Adams said Karratha was more than just a mining town, “it is a port city”. Gazetted 50 years ago this August, the North-West community was declared a city in 2014.

He said mining towns come and go (Goldsworthy, Shay Gap), but port cities will prosper.

- 6 - - 7 - KARRATHA CALLING “AUSTRALIA’S MOST LIVEABLE REGIONAL CITY”

KARRATHA achieved City status on “We are the centre of GDP exports in July 1, 2014. Australia,” she says, enjoying coffee at Fiorita Deli on Sharpe Avenue. This year, the City celebrates 50 years since it was gazetted a One interesting idea is to encourage construction and mining town. passenger cruise ships to visit Karratha, which fits the City’s The next 50 years of iron ore, salt AT the peak of the mining boom in One of the important questions the rebranding as a ‘port city’. and oil and gas exports will bring the Pilbara nearly a decade ago, City asks in its annual community dramatic changes, according to “The plan is to get on the cruise ship Karratha’s population reached surveys is how long people intended Karratha & Districts Chamber of circuit and have a product to service 26,000 people, plus 13,000 FIFOs. staying in Karratha. “In 2011, only 14 that,” she said. per cent of the population said they Commerce and Industry CEO Kylah “That’s nearly 40,000 heads on had no plans to leave Karratha,” Mr Morrison. “Our intention is to have small pillows,” City CEO Chris Adams told Adams said. “Now, it’s 43 per cent. She told StreetWise a new $1.9 tenders come in during ship visits, StreetWise. The old days of people coming to which would benefit retailers in million branding strategy ensured make money and leave Karratha and possibly encourage “Today, FIFO numbers the City becomes a world-class are gone.” redevelopment of the Dampier boat are about 5000, so “In 2011, only 14 per cent destination and affordable place to of the population said club and maybe a marina to activate that’s where numbers Primary and secondary live and work. they had no plans to Dampier.” have decreased. school enrolments are leave Karratha. Now, it’s The idea Karratha’s at record numbers, “We’re getting back a real sense Ms Morrison said businesses in 43 per cent.” population is in decline business investment is of community,” Ms Morrison said. outlying towns such as Point is a fallacy. There are growing and, “a major “There are no tumbleweeds rolling Samson and Cossack often, “were 120 houses for rent in the city out period of construction is coming down the street. We’re seeing overlooked”, because of the extra of 8600 houses. That’s a residential again”, he said, adding the City families and retirees moving here, travel time for tourists visiting vacancy rate of 1.4 per cent, which is had $200 million of development including grandparents supporting Karratha. Increasingly, businesses exceedingly low.” approvals on the books, with 90 their families.” would move to Karratha through, per cent occupancy rates in the “natural attrition”, she said. There are now 11 cafes in the CBD He said though numbers reached Karratha industrial estate and 30 22,000 people in 2016, Karratha per cent at nearby Gap Ridge. when there were only a couple in Karratha City will host the could have become a city in 2006 2013. Educational opportunities are ‘Developing Northern Australia when it boasted more than 20,000 The City of Karratha is calling at expanding and the average age of Conference’ in July and WA Regional people. www.karratha.wa.gov.au. the population is 32 to 35 years old. Tourism Conference in September.

- 8 - - 9 - COSSACK AT CROSSROADS

COASTAL Cossack is a tourism gem, of the late 1880s, Cossack was linked ghost town and popular fishing spot by tram to nearby Roebourne. at the mouth of the Harding River. Its exceptional heritage is Established in 1863 as a harbour recognised by local, state and town, Tien Tsin (after national listings, the the barque of the same town’s remnants name), the North-West including the Court relic was renamed and Custom houses, Cossack in 1871 after Telegraph Office, Sir Frederick Weld Police Station and Jail, ‘BROOME OF THE PILBARA’ visited in Cossack. Galbraith’s Building and a land-backed wharf Home of the first now used for fishing. WA pearling fleet THE City of Karratha wants Cossack Government, “wants to stay safe”, The surrounding established in the to become a major tourism and build with caution. Unfortunately, country also includes 1860s, the industry drawcard, the ‘Broome of the Mr Adams said until State and sites used as Afghan Pilbara’. local authorities agreed on how to was dependent on and Aboriginal camps. Aboriginal and Asian workers whose develop the historic site, landowners, CEO Chris Adams said many tourist settlements and cemeteries are still Additional images of Cossack at the “are in a tough space, their destinations such as Cossack, Point here today. During the gold rushes new StreetWise website. aspirations to do what they want not Samson and Dampier Archipelago achievable in the short term”. copped a hit in the mining boom. Landowners StreetWise spoke to “Local tourism businesses could said the City and State Government not afford to be here (Karratha),” had dragged their feet for years. he said. “At $400 a night, we were unaffordable.” South Fremantle resident and Cossack landowner Terry Paterson He said the City is working on ways said most of the handful of to attract more visitors to the region. landowners will die trying. He said the State owned Cossack, which faced a number of, “planning and infrastructure”, issues including a lack of power, water and waste treatment.

“The land also falls under the coastal planning policy that puts Cossack in a flood zone.” A week before Veronica became the biggest cyclone to hit the Pilbara in 30 years, he said the

- 10 - - 11 - PRISON REVISITED BOOZE BAN VIEWS MIXED

SAMSON Beach Tavern is pumping. Tav owner Russell Brady says there Workers, families and tourists fill the are already services to deal with local watering hole serving quality drug and alcohol abuse in the cuisine and cold liquor. Pilbara region.

It’s T-Bone Steak Night. And one Penalising retail owners was not the of the big topics on the menu is answer: “So 20,000 residents will be proposed new booze bans. penalised because of a small group of problem drinkers,” he says. “The “Why are thousands of people bans are unpopular.” penalised for 50 or so drunks?” a regular patron asks. “How do you The move would restrict people to know it’s that many?” StreetWise one carton of full-strength beer a THE Inspector of Custodial Services Greens WA MLC Alison Xamon has asks. “Point Samson and Wickham day, three bottles of wine and one in WA will make an ‘announced’ visit described conditions at the prison as are small towns with one liquor litre of spirits unless they can prove to Roebourne prison in May. a human rights violation and called outlet, so everyone knows everyone. they are a tourist. on WA Corrective Services Minister There’s no bottle shop in Roebourne He will be met by a scorched ring of Fran Logan to install air-con in all The proposed bans, which were and the next one is in Karratha. If hills burnt in a recent fire just behind cells, estimated at $2 million. due to be introduced on March 31, they’re keen they will drive to Port the prison whose entry signs have have been shelved until appeals are been vandalised by firebugs. Mr Logan refused to comment when Hedland.” cleared by the Liquor Commission. contacted by StreetWise. The Inspector’s previous findings, On January 11, Director of Liquor Read more at tabled in State Parliament in 2016, Between 2010 and 2016, the prison Licensing Peter Minchin announced www.streetwisemedia.com.au. were damning, the correctional health centre reported 82 cases of Pilbara-wide restrictions as an facility described as the, “worst heat-related illness. extension to bans in Port Hedland prison in the state”. and, importantly, “as part of the The Inspector’s report described the Roebourne response (consequence One of the biggest concerns was a living conditions at the prison as, of police investigations of child lack of air conditioning in male cells. “intolerable and inhumane”. abuse)”. Though outside temperatures In February, with daily temperatures The police report on which the often reach 40C-plus, cells can topping 35C-plus, Freo StreetWise Director’s decision is based links reach 50C-plus. Roebourne airport was told only female inmates have excess alcohol use to increasing recorded 48C at the start of March. air-con. Male inmates had ceiling domestic violence in the Pilbara, fans, though all inmates have access Ms Xamon said though the State including Karratha, Roebourne and to air-conditioned common areas. Government has known about Wickham, which were seven times the intolerable living conditions, it the metropolitan rate and nearly Thankfully, Cyclone Veronica continues to let inmates cook in ‘hell’. five times the State rate. Alcohol brought some relief last month. The consumption in these areas on a per Justice Department said the prison Additional details at capita basis is above both the State housed 214 men and 12 women. www.streetwisemedia.com.au. and national average.

- 12 - - 13 - PILBARA POSTCARDS FISHY ART ROCKS SAMSON

POINT Samson is swimming in art. The beachside community has embraced its unspoilt beauty in stone murals and park installations.

Freo StreetWise came across these works of art on a recent visit to the picturesque North-West town, 1580km north of Perth.

Point Samson businessman and former pearler Russell Brady has a hand-crafted giant crab installed in his beer garden.

A short walk from his popular tavern and general store, the 400-strong community boasts a number of art installations at Centenary Park off Point Samson-Roebourne Road.

A humpback whale and calf, schools of metal fish and a sea turtle with babies carved in sandstone.

Just a few streets away, a stone mural of a whale adorns the front wall of a local home whose residents obviously love fishing and boating.

Russell adds the annual Cossack Art Awards, in its 27th year, attracts seeking shade under water tanks hundreds of people to the nearby while at night bats get juiced on fruit ghost town. Showcasing the best trees. regional artworks in Australia, the 2019 Awards run from July 21 to Torrential rains dumped by Cyclone August 11. Veronica last month transformed the landscape: millions of frogs revelling The ‘real’ art of the Pilbara region in the flooded creeks and lakes left is its rugged landscape, baked in the wake of the tropical monster. beaches and unique wildlife. Additional images at Oyster reefs and crab creeks. Joeys www.streetwisemedia.com.au.

- 14 - - 15 - ROGER

FREO blogger Roger Garwood started his career in Fleet Street, London before joining the French news magazine Paris Match. A familiar and friendly face in the city, Roger’s works have appeared in National Geographic, The Sunday Ti m e s (London), Ti m e and Newsweek.

Roger has published several books on traditional Aussie lifestyles, his striking photo work featured in collections of The National Library, The Australian National Gallery and Art Gallery of WA A Fellow of the Art Gallery of WA Foundation, Roger plans to publish a new book on the Mekong Delta.

StreetWise thanks Roger for his cover image of the New Norcia olive harvest, each rosary bead made from an olive stone.

Check out Roger’s images online.

- 16 - - 17 - FATIMA THREE SECRETS

ANGELS, flower-filled fishing boats THE ‘Three Secrets of Fatima’ consist “Our Lady showed us a great sea and a fluorescent mobile cross. of a series of apocalyptic visions and of fire which seemed to be under prophecies supposedly revealed to the earth,” according to Lucia’s 1941 On May 13, Fremantle’s Portuguese three young Portuguese shepherds, memoir describing the first secret. community celebrates the 50th Lucia Santos and her cousins Jacinta anniversary year of Our Lady of and Francisco Marto. The second secret was that WW1 Fatima in a candlelight procession would end, but another war would be through the city. The children of Fatima claimed to waged during the reign of Pope Pius have been visited by the Virgin XI if men continued to offend God. The annual event commemorates Mary six times between May 13 and the appearance in Portugal in 1917 of October 13, 1917. “The war is going to end; but if Mother Mary to three children - Lucia people do not cease Dos Santos, aged 10, and her cousins, On July 13, 1917, offending God, a worse Francisco, seven, and Jacinta Marto, nine. Mother Mary is said one will break out to have entrusted the Hundreds of people take part in the during the Pontificate children with three annual procession that starts and of Pope Pius XI.” secrets, ”that was ends at St Patrick’s Basilica. good for some and Sister Lucia chose Lucia described their vision, “Like bad for others”. not to disclose the a cloud, whiter than snow, slightly third secret in her 1941 Two of the Fatima transparent, with a human outline”. memoir. When she secrets were revealed fell seriously ill, Bishop During these apparitions, Our Lady in 1941 in a document da Silva visited her on spoke about the importance of prayer written by Lúcia at September 15, 1943, and in a world moving further away from the request of Jose suggested she write God. During the final apparition, Alves Correia da Silva, down the third secret. thousands who gathered at Cova Bishop of Leiria. da Iria witnessed the sun move and In June 1944, the third secret was change in colour. In 1943, Lucia wrote down the third secret and sealed it in an envelope, recorded and delivered to Bishop not to be opened until 1960 when, “it Silva, who kept it secret until 1957. will appear clearer”. In 1960, the Vatican stated, “most The text of the third secret was probable the Secret would remain, officially released by Pope John Paul forever, under absolute seal”, II in 2000, although some claim it only increasing speculation and was not the entire secret. conspiracy theories over the content of the final Fatima prophecy. According to Catholic interpretations, the three secrets include references One French newspaper reported to WW1, WW2 and the 20th century that Pope Paul VI fainted when he persecutions of Christians. read it.

- 18 - - 19 - BEFORE PEEL

ABORIGINAL people occupied an older man with long hair, and a the Cockburn coast for tens of ‘remarkable bump’ on his forehead. thousands of years before Europeans Midgegooroo had at least two wives arrived. and four sons, Yagan, Narral, Billy and Willim. When British pioneer Thomas Peel landed in Cockburn Sound in 1829 Conflict over land and game soon and set up camp around Mount emerged in the new coastal and Brown (Originally named Brown Hill river colonies. by Surveyor General John Septimus Roe after Peter Brown, first colonial In February 1831, Midgegooroo visited secretary of WA), Midgegooroo was Lionel Samson’s store in Fremantle a Whadjuk leader and resistance and was given biscuits by servant fighter of the Nyungar nation. James Lacey who stated he, “was PRESERVE OR PAVE? obliged to put him out of the store by Midgegooroo at the time was force. As I was in the act of shutting a leader of the Beeliar area. the door he threw a spear at me ‘CLARENCE Town’ near Mount Brown children who succumbed to the Midgegooroo’s main camp was a through the open space of the door- is rare as a place associated with the inhospitable conditions; lack of fresh place called ‘Mendyarrup’, around way; it lodged in the opposite side”. first year of settlement in WA. 1829. water, medicine and proper shelter. Blackwall Reach and Point Walter. The same year, Midgegooroo and Though the settlement established Descendants of the passengers who In 1830, when Peel’s settlers started Yagan, in retaliation for the killing of by WA pioneer Thomas Peel sought a new life here still visit the arriving on the coast at present-day an Aboriginal man who tried to steal lasted less than two years, Woodman Point, Midgegooroo was Woodman Point area to pay their potatoes and a fowl, killed servant its abandonment ensured its respects Erin Entwhistle at Archibald Butler’s importance as one of the best farm at Point Walter. Yagan was undisturbed archaeological sites in Clarence residents include identities arrested in 1832 for the murder of WA. It has not been built over. Yet. such as Bailey, Elmslie, Oakley and settler William Gaze. Midgegooroo Littleton. They lived near Gilmore Artefacts unearthed here include the was executed by firing squad in doctor Littleton, who was criticised foundations of tents and postholes of Perth on May 17, 1833. by WA Governor James Stirling’s English hard wood and yellow bricks doctor as having done little to ease A year after having abandoned to line fireplaces, both sourced from the plight of his fellow Clarence the Mount Brown area to settle the the ships, collapsed walls, glass, settlers who either left, became ill or region named after him, Peel took ceramics, bottles, smoking pipes and went mad. part in the Pinjarra Massacre led coins. by Governor James Stirling. The And, according to the State Heritage Elizabeth Oakley, aged 40, died July Aboriginal killings are remembered Office, “approximately sixty graves” 13, 1830, of, “water on the chest”, annually by the Binjareb people are recorded. probably pneumonia. on October 28. In 2008, Canning National Park was renamed The unmarked graves at Clarence Her neighbour Anne, 32, died, during Midgegooroo National Park. Town contain mostly women and childbirth a month later.

- 20 - - 21 - HANDLE WITH CARE NICOLE ROBINS Federal Liberal candidate for Fremantle

Having spent almost a decade safeguard the provision of excellent as a local government councillor education. and several years as a high school teacher, I’m focused on our local To continue our record funding for community and our future. education and health we need a strong economy and good economic I want to be a strong voice for the management. people of Fremantle and represent you on the issues that matter. It is important to me that we have a fair and humane refugee intake THE Peel site near Woodman Point established for a few months on the One issue locals continue to raise without compromising the security is part of a series of historical and 12km by 1.5km island off Perth. of our borders or allowing people archaeological sites listed as heritage with me is the importance of building smugglers to risk the lives of treasures in Cockburn Sound. Stirling held WA’s first horse race Roe 8 and 9, a critical missing link here. The first ‘official’ death also in Perth’s long planned highway vulnerable people at sea. One of two coastal sites pegged was recorded here after a falling system. I want an Australia and a community for the proposed Outer Harbour, branch killed William Parsons who In addition to creating thousands of that backs those who want to work the largely undisturbed settlement was buried at Cliff Head where local jobs, the construction of Roe 8 and get ahead in life. overlooks WA’s first Government Stirling, wife Ellen and two young and 9 will significantly reduce traffic House on nearby Garden Island. If you want a strong local voice boys Andrew and Frederick Henry congestion. Captain James Stirling’s temporary spent their first WA winter. for Fremantle who will be a Construction would reduce travel tireless advocate, please consider settlement at Sulphur Bay grew On May 2,1829, Captain Charles to accommodate more than 400 time for commuters and ease supporting me at the election in May. Fremantle had taken possession of the people before numbers dwindled pressure on local roads currently whole of Australia not then included in the race to claim a piece of the used by motorists as ‘rat runs’ to get within the boundaries of NSW. mainland near the Swan. to Roe and Kwinana Freeway. It was from Garden Island on July By 1834, Sulphur Town and Peel’s Fremantle port is no where near Clarence site were ghosts town. 27 that Stirling issued his notice that maximum capacity and will be WA’s the first stone of the colony would main port for many years - doing Cockburn Sound is a historical be laid at “a New Town to be called nothing to fix the current traffic window to 1829. A coastal harbour Perth”. WA celebrates foundation problems is not an option. littered with wrecks and used day in June. by navy fleets, industry and for Labor has no plan to address recreational fishing, boating, diving A 1997 joint parliamentary congestion in Fremantle and its and horse riding. committee described Garden Island reckless proposal to delete the as, “a particularly significant place Roe Highway road reserve is short Stirling was forced to land on in the lives of all Western Australians sighted and politically motivated. Garden Island after trying to enter and in the history of WA”. Cockburn Sound in bad weather, In terms of other policy areas, as a WA’s first seat of government It must be handled with care. teacher I know quality resources

- 22 - - 23 - DESCRIPTIONS of Clarence Town The inn and small dwellings Bond BOND’S INN include references to a small bush built appear for the first time as “pub” built by Bath-born Henry Rice tiny pencilled squares on a 1833 Bond, who arrived in Cockburn surveyor’s map (also reproduced Sound with four children in May 1830. here).

Bond called the State’s earliest In 1833, Henry took Peel to court to watering hole ‘James Wreck Inn’ recover 100 pounds for wages and because it was located near the work involving building coffins on James shipwreck, which has never Garden Island. been found but thought to be buried in the seabed off the old South Henry complained at having spent Fremantle power station in Cockburn. seven weeks on the island where he was “obliged to make coffins on a The liquor licence was issued on Sunday”. July 28, 1830, to Henry Rice Bond, a former ‘bobby’ in the world’s first In 1863, the Perth Gazette reported police force in London. Henry’s passing as, “the death of an old inhabitant of the Colony”. The bearded innkeeper was clear to operate a ‘licensed victualling house’ after leaving Thomas Peel’s doomed settlement near Woodman Point (Bond’s three-year-old son Henry Edward Bond died at Clarence on May 9 of scurvy, caused by a lack of vitamin C).

A victualler was a person licensed to sell booze to people eating at the premises, which Bond built on the coast near the James, a 195-ton US- built vessel wrecked in May 1830, the same month Bond arrived with his family.

A ghostly 1947 image of the colonial innkeeper (reproduced here) can be viewed at Battye, Library, the white- bearded figure holding his doll-like granddaughter Christina.

Christina married Charles Henry Miner who was a soldier in the 63rd infantry regiment at the Eureka Stockade in 1854.

- 24 - - 25 - THANK CRUISIN FOR CHARITY YOU FREO

THE Freo StreetWise Charity Car Cruise attracted hundreds of people to Victoria Quay and the Cappuccino Strip on February 17.

Collecting for the Cancer Council, Fremantle’s biggest ‘bog lap’ was sponsored by Fremantle Ports, SCOOP Property and Finance, FreeDB Car Stereo, Portorosa Fremantle and WA Publishers Guild.

A special thanks to our fleet-footed volunteers from CBC College who have rattled charity tins since the annual event was launched in 2016.

Owners of classic and vintage cars mustered at the WA Maritime Museum before heading into the CBD and Cafe Strip to repeat a tradition dating back to the 1950s and 1960s - the cruise.

More images available online.

- 26 - - 27 - ALL SHAPES

AND SIZES - 28 - - 29 - MOVIN’ RIGHT ALONG

- 30 - - 31 - CROSSING vast oceans, avoiding icebergs and wild storms and EUROPA CALLS recording unique wildernesses. Bark Europa certainly clocks up the frequent flyer points, the Hamburg- built ship having earned the name, ‘Ocean Wanderer’. Built in 1911, Europa takes part in tall ships races around the world. It was originally named, ‘Senator Brockes’, the ship having visited Fremantle in 2013.

Follow Europa’s latest adventures at www.barkeuropa.com or www.facebook.com/barkeuropa.

Images by Valery Vasileskly.

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