Fremantle to Exmouth

Our last full day in Fremantle started with breakfast at Gino’s. We went to this cafe on our honeymoon and had a fabulous breakfast - Gino’s Special and pancakes.
Daniel had the special again whilst Helen went with a bruschetta but the kids went for pancakes, but they didn’t come with berries this time - not that the kids cared!
We visited the second hand bookshop across the road before returning to the hotel to start to pack - the plan being to send a few bags back by road freight but it turned out it would cost twice as much as buying extra baggage on the aeroplane.
Fremantle was the first settlement in Western Australia before the settlement was moved to Perth (a more defensible location). The Fremantle Prison was made from local limestone and replaced the Roundhouse to house the convicts (who built both) and other criminals until 1991.
We did the Real Crimes tour where we heard about some of the criminals who were housed (and escaped) there.
Afterwards we went to the Shipwreck Museum and saw material from the Batavia (which was wrecked on the Houtman Abrolhos in 1629 and has a story that is fascinating - read about it here https://museum.wa.gov.au/research/research-area…) and Dirk Hartog’s plate that he left on an island (now named after him) in 1616 and is the earliest record of Europeans setting foot on the continent.
In the evening we had dinner with Dani Brown and her son. Dani is partially responsible for us getting together - if she didn’t appoint Daniel as CAPA IT officer and give Hawkesbury the ACM in 1997 we may never have met!
Throughout the trip Daniel and Macca have been enjoying different beers from local breweries and sharing photos with a group of friends. Gage Roads has been popular so it is was appropriate to finish the trip at the brewery and pick up a couple of take home cans!Read more