Perth tourism

  • As published in Have A Go News: Staycations? I’m converted!

    Grab one of 80,000 copies across WA or check out the December issue online and read all about my latest adventure very close to home.

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  • As Published in Have A Go News: Discovering the Joy of Main Streets

    Growing up in a country town, the main street was a great place to walk down on a Saturday morning to see who else was out and about. Main Streets of Western Australia continue to define the life of their communities. It might just be to go to the butcher or grocer, pick up the…

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  • Picnic Spots for Mother’s Day, or any day really

    For ABC Perth Saturday Breakfast we saw the need to take mum, or the aunties, out for Mother’s Day, or any day. While we could go to some of her favourite picnic spots, like Kings Park, Whiteman Park, Heathcote or the Cottesloe foreshore, we thought we’d keep her guessing and take her somewhere else. We’ve…

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  • Spooky Spaces & Places on ABC Perth Saturday Breakfast

    Perth isn’t that old is it?  And our regional communities aren’t any older? While our Aboriginal culture is tens of thousands of years old, our oldest buildings are less than two hundred years old. But that doesn’t stop many of them from sending a shiver up or down our spine and feeling that spirits from…

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  • And I Took The Road Less Travelled.  What About You?

    Perth! What’s your favourite street and how do you like to travel? Enjoy listening to the audio from ABC Perth Saturday Breakfast that included a very special guest, Perth’s famous traffic reporter, Bernie D! One of the ways we really get on a roll is when we talk about a topic that includes a roadtrip. …

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  • ABC Perth Saturday Breakfast Discovers Our Rites of Passage

    As we grow up and find our way in our street, in our town and our state, there are experiences we have that aren’t connected to bucket lists or wish lists.  They might be things that our parents have done and now think we’re old enough for, or places they took you to that you…

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  • ABC Perth Saturday Breakfast looks at the art, wildlife and wild rides to be had on lakes

    Whether they’ve got water in them or are just a salty plain, lakes are opportunities not just for our wildlife but for all of us. They’ve been used for land and water speed records and they’ve been used for sculptures. You’ll find lakes where you can sit and watch birdlife, you’ll find lakes you can…

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  • ABC Perth Saturday Breakfast Gets Fit

    It’s normally around now that we remember the New Years Resolution’s that we made nearly a month ago.  It’s normally around now that reality kicks in as you realise that work outfits seem just a bit tighter than the singlets and bathers you might have been getting around in all summer. It’s time to combine…

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  • ABC Saturday Breakfast: The Best Of Hidden Treasure

    Hidden Treasures has been a journey of local discoveries that has led us to urban art trails, suburban museums, jetties, lakes, parks and so much more. In this penultimate edition of Hidden Treasures for 2021, we’re doing a year in review, we’re naming names, we’re handing out gongs and we’re doing it quicker than the…

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  • As Published in Have A Go News Newspaper … There’s Hidden Treasure on Wadjemup Island!

    Enjoy the story above, published in the summer edition of Have A Go News Newspaper. Have A Go News has a circulation of more than 80,000 copies around Western Australia and is also available online and on your favourite social media platforms. This story features a weekend adventure with my son Tom to do the…

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