Garuda Indonesia Colours Magazine June 2016 | Page 99

Travel | Fremantle

© Fremantle Prison; © Tourism Western Australia

Freo is lively at any time of year with bars,
craft-beer breweries, beaches, seafood shacks,
restaurants and live-music venues all luring
locals and residents of Perth, especially
at weekends and in the evenings. There’s
a freewheeling, student vibe and eclectic mix
of people that belie Fremantle’s location on
this remote rim of Australia. Outdoor cafés
along South Terrace – affectionately known
as ‘The Cappuccino Strip’ – are buzzing at
weekends as patrons get not just their caffeine
fix but fine helpings of mostly Italian food.

5 Senses – Sight
FREMANTLE PRISON
This convict-built complex has
a history almost as long as Western
Australia, is the most intact convict
establishment in the whole country,
and is now World Heritage listed.
It was used as the state’s maximumsecurity prison right up until 1999.
It’s best visited on tours, as guides
bring the prison’s fascinating
history, daring escapes and tunnels
to life, and explain its uses and
unusual punishments. Torchlight
evening tours will delight those
with a penchant for goosebumps.
www.fremantleprison.com.au
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At lunchtime, Fremantle is crowded with
business people in suits doing lunch over chilli
prawns. At night, the restaurants and bars fill up
with the chattering classes down from the city.
The Fishing Boat Harbour (where the catch
of the day is still unloaded) is the epicentre
of seafood delights, and you’ll also find
breweries like Little Creatures tempting
with both beer and good food.

Head to the Western Australian Maritime
Museum on the water’s edge and you’ll be
able to inspect Australia II, the 1983 America’s
Cup winner, and tour a Second World War
submarine. You can also visit the museum’s
separate Shipwreck Galleries, which include
the wreck of the Dutch sailing ship Batavia
that ran aground off the Western Australian
coast in 1629 in a fascinating tale of early
European contact with the continent.
The port town capitalised on the America’s Cup
with subsequent projects, including the opening
of a university, serious investment in arts
programmes and the continuing restoration of
the waterfront. What’s more, it achieved this
while becoming part of Perth’s suburban sprawl,
yet has managed to keep a distinct identity.
Fremantle is a good place to relax; there’s
nothing better than walking along the windy
promenade and watching the yachts tugging
at their moorings, while overhead gulls twist
in the turbulent air. Then browse through
the Fremantle Markets, where you can pick
up carved emu eggs, boomerangs or fine-quality
Aboriginal art. They’re the best markets in
all Perth, and also a good place for informal
eateries, with stalls tempting with everything
from German sausages to Turkish pide and
Vietnamese spring rolls.
You can also find gold, diamonds and
South Sea pearls in Freo, all of which are
notable products of Western Australia.
High Street has many souvenir shops, where
alpaca-wool products, hand-blown glass and
Aboriginal art make good buys. More eclectic
are the boutiques and artists’ studios that
make up MANY 6160 inside a former
department store: expect bargain
(and rather bohemian) browsing.

It all seems a long way from the convicts and
rough sailors of the early days, but once again
– brilliantly casual, wittily subversive – Perth’s
raw edge is never far away. As you tuck in to
your fettuccine carbonara and Margaret River
wine, you might just get a whiff of wool as
another container ship of sheep is loaded up just
across the road, heading for the Middle Eastern
market. Another reminder of vast outback
Australia here in your trendy restaurant,
as seagulls shriek and the breeze blows.

The historic Fremantle
Prison.
Adventurers on the Fremantle
Prison Tunnel Tour.