Fremantle

The day before we read on the ferry terminal wall and it said it leaves at 8:45 so we were down there around 8:15 and the lady told us the time on the wall in wrong and they go at 9:45! Well, this did NOT make the german very happy and no story short we bought tickets for the 9:45 and they were pretty quick at taking down the wrong time on the wall after Lenny told them how to properly run a ferry service, hahaha! Anyway, we just walk back into the city and ate some very expensive maccas for brekky and headed back down. The boat ride was just over an hour and was about 90% Asian’s!!! Half way into the ride Lenny said the seats in front of the boat were free so we went up there and there was an Asian lady sitting in the middle of three seats so Len and I sat down on either side of her. Similar to our “Camel Man” experience, like ten of these Asian people, all armed with camera’s, started laughing and taking pictures of the three of us sitting there!!! So we each put our arm around the back of her seat and they got even more excited like we were movie stars or something! Too funny! Again, through all of this we didn’t get any pictures on our cameras because we were just too in awe I guess? Later on when I was just standing there some more Asian’s wanted there picture with me??? I don’t know why??? I would have said it was my awesome Kangaroo hat but I wasn’t wearing it at the time of this phenomenon!haha.

When we got to Fremantle we went to the visitor center, then decided to do the Fremantle prison tour that a couple people told Lenny was really cool. We bought our tickets for two tours, one was the life in prison tour or something, I forget. And the other was the great escapes tour. We had a half hour before our tour so we went to the “Fremantle Markets” which were nice and had amazing spring rolls and sushi. I Have never done a prison tour and it was very cool. We had a man named Jim for our tour guide who had worked in the prison for many years before it was closed down and he REALLY liked to yell at people who didn’t follow his instructions, especially the Asian’s!!! I got yelled a too for not standing behind the white line, my toes were on it! The great escapes tour was not as good cause we had a lady, who was very nice, with a soft monotone voice and she wasn’t a very good story teller! Afterward we caught the free bus down to south beach, but the wind was so strong it was like a sand storm so we didn’t stay to long. Lenny went back to the city on the train and I walked around Fremantle a bit longer and came across the “Little Creatures” brewery and bar right on the harbor. This was the most amazing bar I’ve ever seen, with the brewery built around the bar and restaurant. After I did the tourist thing walking through the brewery/bar, I had a pint for $9.50!!! the most expensive pint of beer I ever bought, and it was brewed right there??? It was Sunday evening and this place was absolutely packed with people!!! I kept walking along the harbor and came across “Cicerello’s”, supposedly the best fish and chips in WA but they were not so special. I caught the train back to the city and returned to the hostel.