11 November - Kings Park and the WACA

11 November 2016 – 194 987

Kings Park and the WACA

This morning we headed into the city early and went to Kings Park.  

https://www.bgpa.wa.gov.au/kings-park

Hayden enjoyed the Synergy Parkland – this is an amazing large playground with lots of fort like areas and even an island with another playground on it and a dinosaur theme.  

https://buggybuddys.com.au/things-to-do/playgrounds-and-parks-in-perth/synergy-parklands-kings-park/

Hayden had a catch up with his school friends via FaceTime, which he appeared to greatly enjoy.  

We walked a short distance from Kings Park and caught one of the free inner-city buses that took us to the WACA. https://www.waca.com.au/ Perth seems to have very good public transport – there are several train lines (which run down the centre of the freeways so only one corridor) and bus interchanges at many of the train stations as well as four free inner-city bus loops that service quite a large area around the CBD.  At the WACA we took a tour of the grounds.  This took us around all the different stands, in the media room, on the grounds, in the team rooms, players dining room and change rooms; even the Dennis Lilley club room (over $3000 per season).  It was pretty good, even for the non-cricket fan.  

We returned to Kings Park for a picnic lunch, followed by a play in the Variety Club Playground.  This was another amazing playground, with forts, tunnels, rope climbs and beautiful wooden creations carved into seats, poles etc.  I also wandered around taking photos of some of the lovely flowers.  

https://www.bgpa.wa.gov.au/kings-park/area/saw-avenue/variety-place

We finished the day with a trip to Sizzler’s – all filled up and ready for a sleep!