Cottesloe

It was sunny and warm on the first day of Spring in Australia.
I took the train from Fremantle to Cottesloe for a cost of A$3.50 to travel through one zone and a few stations.
From the station, I walked through a very smart tree-lined housing estate and past the golf course to the beach, and then walked on the pavement above the white-sand beach and dunes and in front of very nice houses in South Cottesloe. A school was having surfing lessons although the sea was very calm with few breakers.
Retracing my steps, I walked in the opposite direction to the beaches at North Cottesloe as far as Swanbourne Beach before reaching a sign on a fence around the dunes warning of venomous snakes on the dunes.
I could see a few islands and container ships out to sea.
After a light lunch at a cafe overlooking the beach, I retraced my steps back to the station and returned to Fremantle which was much quieter midweek than at the weekend.
I stayed in the hotel in the afternoon and finished a Jeffrey Archer novel I bought at one of the airports. I gave it to a 2nd-hand bookshop the next day.
I returned to an Italian restaurant for dinner where I had gone the previous evening to have fruit pie for dessert.
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