First Bike Ride!

Brian and I went on our first bike ride together in Australia. We rode from our apartment north towards the Swan River which feeds into the ocean and then road along it to the West towards Freo! It was a beautiful ride, and all we know is that we were gone for at least 2 hours! My butt is bruised, but no time to rest because I need to be ready to bike to class in two weeks time! AHH

I hope you enjoy the pictures!

Brian's bike has a sticker that says FRONT! Just in case the handle bars were not enough of a clue!

 A random little reserve we found! Locked our bikes to the fence and explored a bit! But in all seriousness, almost every 3-6 blocks there is a park. Usually it is a playground or footy field (AFL - Australian Football league, I still don't understand it fully. It is like rugby but not like rugby, and soccer is called soccer here so that is not an issue) However, this park was like a little nature reserve! So cool!

 We saw this sign upon exiting the park and riding to another entrance haha Big lizard things - Brian has seen one, but I haven't yet

 

 We are at Troy Park and we were trying to get the city behind us! It didn't work! Instead you can see the footy field (OH YEA! All of their footy fields or soccer fields are EXTREMELY FLAT!!! and I mean EVERY park with a field is soo flat! I don't think the kids here understand how good they have it! No twisted ankles for them!) and behind the footy field is the Swan River. If you google maps (Perth) you can see how BIG swan river really is!

 Attempt #2 - still a fail

 You can see the footy poles now and the city just not us! I gave up! ha

 THE PICTURE ABOVE AND THE ONES BELOW ARE A PANORAMIC FROM WHERE WE WERE STANDING IN THE PICTURE OF US ABOVE!

This is at a new park farther down the swan river, closer to freo! My mommy always taught me to take pictures of the info signs or you will never remember later!

 You can see the city center just barely behind the trees!

 We found a little hideaway right off the bike path!

 bike path is on the other side of fence you can barely see

 The city!

 FISHY!

 A black swan couple swimming in the river that is named after them, the Swan River

 look how tan he is compared to me! I gotta get out more apparently!

 cutest little bench water is so high because it rained like buckets the day before!

 we found this carved in a tree right behind the bench, NO WE DID NOT DO THIS, but thought it was fitting to find our initials! <3

 Yet another park along the bike path with a fancy cafe and ice cream shop! This is where decided to turn back for the day

 little piers built like boats

 A sand bar! I was sooo tempted to walk out on it, but I knew how cold it was from our earlier stop!

I can't wait for our next adventure!