Flat Mrs. Abbott visits Perth City

Flat Mrs. Abbott in Perth.















The Abbott boys love meat pies!
















It's Christmas time in the city.

















Perth is decorated for Christmas




























Huge Christmas card in Perth.


















Derek and Blaise in front of Christmas tree in square.



















Blaise, Linnea, Flat Mrs. Abbott, Terry and Braeden in front of Christmas tree in Forrest Chase square.















Western Australian Museum entrance.













An aardvark. Aardvarks live in Africa. For some reason this museum has animals from other parts of the world, not just Australia.












This is what an early known horse looked like. They originated in North America.















A skeleton of an Indian Elephant. Indian elephants are smaller than African elephants. They rarely reach 3 metres in height and weigh about 4 tonnes. They live for 60 -70 years.











The skeleton head of a camel or dromedary. Flat Mrs. Abbott thinks camels have very big skulls.
Because camels can carry heavy burdens and endure harsh conditions, camels were domesticated early. Camels were introduced to Australia in the early 19th century and later went wild in the central desert regions. You may remember that I said on an earlier blog that last time we were here we went up north and saw camels in the wild. They can live for up to 50 years. I'm glad I'm not a camel or my time would be up in a couple of years.








Camel or dromedary skelton.

Can you guess what type of animal this skeleton is?

If you guessed a koala, you are right!


Koalas are herbivores. Herbivores are animals that only eat plants. They have strong jaws for eating vegetation (eucalyptus leaves).

This is the skeleton of a Hairy-Nosed wombat.
Do you remember the picture from the last blog of the Hairy-Nosed Wombat?

On Tuesday, November 16th , Flat Mrs. Abbott joined the Abbotts and Derek on a trip into Perth City. We are living in Carine, which is a suburb of Perth. To get to Perth we have to drive south on the Mitchell freeway for about 20 minutes or so to get there. We have also taken the train in to go to the city.

It was another warm day on Tuesday. The city is decorated for Christmas and I got a picture of us in front of the huge artificial Christmas tree on Murray Street. I think the square is called Forrest Chase.

We did a bit of shopping, Mrs. Abbott decided to buy a sunhat instead of wearing Braeden's baseball cap. It covers up more and hopefully it will keep the flies off her face.

While Blaise, Derek and Braeden continued looking in the shops, Mr. and Mrs. Abbott and Flat Mrs. Abbott went to the Western Australia Museum. We saw all kinds of animal skeletons and learned more about Western Australia. There was a whole section about the aboriginal people and how they were treated by the British when the Brits arrived here and for years after. Aboriginal children who had a white father and an aboriginal mother were taken from their mothers and put in a place with other children and were taught by nuns how to speak English and the Christian religion. They were not allowed to speak their native language and were not allowed to see their family. It was very sad. It reminded me somewhat of how our aboriginals in Canada were taken away to residential schools. Hopefully we can learn from the past and not repeat the mistakes we made.