Western Australia Part I: Whine and Wine
Feb. 21st, 2015 01:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tcpipTook the silver bird to Western Australia on Friday for the niece's wedding, watching Love is Strange and Automata. The former did well to elucidate the destructive effects of discriminatory employment practices. The latter had a good premise and deriving from a number of near-future sf films, didn't quite deliver. Getting off at Perth, turned on Ingress to discover that my home portals had been smashed just as was taking the taxi to the airport. It was particularly disappointing as a number of them were at 85-plus days, including one at 89 days. Given that there is a guardian badge at 90 days, which would have given me the criteria to get level 15, it was a little annoying to say the least. The charitable side of me wants to believe that the surprise attack was not the result of a screenscraper, as that would constitute cheating.
Initially staying incaseopaya's mother's house in the southern suburb of Kwinana and went to the Rockingham foreshore for dinner. This has changed significantly since my childhood. Once very much a fringe suburb of beach shacks and campsites, it is now very much mainstream suburbia with modernist mansions overlooking the sea. Of course the facilities are much improved but it has certainly lost a great deal of its isolated charm. On the following day made our way to the Yallingup Forest Resort taking accommodation in a pleasant chalet surrounded by bushland, which includes some very friendly magpies.
Shortly after arrival joined a tour of some of the other guests a few local wineries and breweries (there's apparently around 125 in the Margaret River region). None were particularly astounding, although we picked up a reasonable limette at Happs and a good tampranillo at Hay Shed. Lunch was at a local brewery, Bootleg, which had good food and setting, although the beers were very uninteresting. I certainly could have done without the ignorant old white man at the lunch table trying to tell me how much better the aborigines had it before equal rights. It is interesting that I have never in all my years heard an indigenous person say such a thing.
Initially staying in
caseopaya's mother's house in the southern suburb of Kwinana and went to the Rockingham foreshore for dinner. This has changed significantly since my childhood. Once very much a fringe suburb of beach shacks and campsites, it is now very much mainstream suburbia with modernist mansions overlooking the sea. Of course the facilities are much improved but it has certainly lost a great deal of its isolated charm. On the following day made our way to the Yallingup Forest Resort taking accommodation in a pleasant chalet surrounded by bushland, which includes some very friendly magpies. Shortly after arrival joined a tour of some of the other guests a few local wineries and breweries (there's apparently around 125 in the Margaret River region). None were particularly astounding, although we picked up a reasonable limette at Happs and a good tampranillo at Hay Shed. Lunch was at a local brewery, Bootleg, which had good food and setting, although the beers were very uninteresting. I certainly could have done without the ignorant old white man at the lunch table trying to tell me how much better the aborigines had it before equal rights. It is interesting that I have never in all my years heard an indigenous person say such a thing.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2015-02-23 01:42 pm (UTC)