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Checked it out today. Great place for a picnic on the grassy knoll nearby.

So they removed the rubbish tip and built a casino? So nothing changed?

They stopped the work when they realised how many bike riders prefer to use the roads rather than the bike lane🤣

Peak #Perf.😊

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Is Rolf Harris still there

should have put the talking head road to nowhere 😂

Very interesting. I have a distant memory of more tunnels around that area in the 90s when I didnt cycle much. I found it on google maps. I tried to find more photos and maps. Maybe worth more research and a full video. The entrance matches other tunnels in that area with a real 70s feel to them.

So typical, how many times have I wanted to get somewhere, only to find I have to join a main road!

This is actually common in Perth. I ride a fair bit and a bunch of bike pathes jst abruptly end. Sometimes i’ll be riding and then boom, main road with no bike lane continuation. I

Love the Perth content, thank you

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Bike paths all over Perth randomly end and frequently they change to the other side of the road for no reason.

Welcome to Perth's PSP Network ... you can cycle along uninterrupted for miles and suddenly hit a dead end, only for the path to suddenly begin again several kilometres further along.

Wow. Where did the bike path lead to before?

I just want to say, after being introduced to your channel by my boyfriend, I am enthralled! It's really exciting to learn about local history and to know that so many of these places are accessible to me. There's also a nostalgic feel to it, being a local. I have really enjoyed watching your videos and also noticed the format shift which was a good choice. You're very knowledgeable and engaging to listen to. Thankyou for creating amazing little videos about this cool city 🙏 Also my boyfriend is obsessed with the intro music 😂

Definitely Barnett govt

It's surprisingly well maintained given that it hasn't been useful since the Mandurah line happened

I remember Yanchep Sun CIty being a long way from home (Balga) and cold and mostly deserted (so we likely went in winter). We went to Atlantis in it's hey-day and it was fun - but not surprising that it fell into decline. There was speculation that Bond had named the development "Sun City" after Sun City in South Africa - possibly to attract South African investors or potential home oweners.

I still have the Atlantis coffee mug I got when my sister and I visited as kids with my auntie and uncle. Great memories!

Can't believe you didnt cross it. Only like a metre drop surely. But i guess if it broke not only do you risk injury but also the loss of the bridge. Anyway love the videos, keep up the good work mate.

Hi Brendan. Thanks so much for making this. I had hoped you might get to Alantis at some point. There is some good 1989 footage here from the 8:10 mark: th-cam.com/video/uDhY48p4BFk/w-d-xo.htmlsi=D8W7ueGelEqnckjQ&t=490 There was a tonne of weird and whacky theme parks north of Perth in the 1980's. The Wanneroo Lion Park (opened in the '70s) was the oddest of all. You drove your car into a fenced off 'park' area filled with lions and threw a slab of meat out the car window that you purchased from the front entrance. My memory of the meat was that it is was a giant slab of rump steak. You could then watch the big cats eat it. I first went there around 1980-81, not long after my family migrated to Western Australia from NZ. There were various rumours and sightings of an escaped lion where I lived at the time in Bullsbrook and there was also a story about someone who killed themselves there by getting out of their car. The lions attacked and ate them.

I did an assignment on Atlantis when I was in high school. Me and my dad went in there and took a bunch of photos. It was great. I've been meaning to go back again.

We went to Atlantis several times from opening through to 1990. I still have a cloth badge in my collection from there.

Id love to see Action park Mirrabooka, but I think its all gone.

Yes from the State Library, you are not doing anything wrong.

You must do a lot of research, as Perth is an insignificant city compared to world standards. Nobody bothers with Perth History. Do you just get all your info from the State Library? I have been in the archive sections. The library has a lot of archives that people do not know about.

Thank you for bringing back my childhood memories, when my family was together and alive.

i fish for herring here! if i catch u in my herrin spot im gonan bust out the matchete, do not come, jk lol

Great video I'll have to get up there and explore !

I was fortunate enough in 1982 to be chosen to be part of the dolphin show and was taken across the pool in a little raft by the dolphins.. got to feed them and they sung for me, and received a postcard signed by the dolphins thanking me for feeding them …and I also got to see Popeye the seal perform …fond memories

Learn to pronounce Whatley. How do you pronounce what?

Great video. Keep up the good work.

When I first heard about the old Marine Park / King Neptune sculpture I couldn’t believe Perth had something cool like this. Now I feel the same way about learning Perth has a video essay TH-camr, Brendan’s Odyssey!?! 🙌🏻🤩

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Hey Brendan! I was trying to investigate what you meant by clicking “join”, as I was trying to find a way to send some dollars your way to support your work! Do you have a Patreon of some kind? How can we support you?

This is a great. One Brendon I too visited king Neptune in 2021 when we went on a driving trip up north to Exmouth I hadn’t been there since 1983 when we did the whole park experience The 80s were quite a time never to be seen again I would get in the Delorian and go back tomorrow if I had half a chance We had so many crazy amazing things back the And did you see how much it was to have a house built $22500

Perth born and bred since 72 - really enjoy your videos Brendan. Thank you! 😊

Alan b was/is a horrid scumbag and total Liar, total rip-off merchant and disgusting human..

G'day again Brendan, We went there a couple of Times, Armadale is a Bugger of a Long Way from there, but we enjoyed ourselves ,also did the Birdman Rally once, thanks for the memories Mate being a Septuagenarian you need all the help you can get!!!

I cannot thank you enough for making content like this. I often wonder why there was never any W.A. history on TV or TH-cam. But you have scratched that itch! Keep em' coming

Where's next... Dizzy Lamb Park?? ha

If you want to see some more interesting architecture history you should see what the Two Rocks library was first built like, it was based of the work of an Italian architect and was a complete dome

Thanks for another great nostalgia trip. I grew up in Perth from the early 70’s until moving away in 2011, so it’s great to get info on how things have changed. I forget how much of Perth is build on sand dunes until I see videos like this.

I threw up in Atlantis as a kid. That’s all I remember if it. Probably around 1990. 😆

Hi Brendan. Really enjoy your videos. Can I suggest a vid about Canning Bridge? I don't know much about it (I'm probably not alone in that :)), even though I grew up near it and used to go fishing underneath it (it had/has a kind of jetty thing underneath it, projecting from the Como side of the river). Two things are clear: It's pretty old, and made of wood. So it has to have a cool history, right :) Another potentially interesting historical site is the nearby Heathcote Hospital (now a kind of public park/space), but all the old buildings are still there.

Like all Poms. Bond talked the talk but never walked the walk.

I've driven past this so many times and had no idea about any of this. Pretty dope to learn.

seen your channel recommended a few times, plan on watching after work today. have you ever been to fairbridge or dwellingup? i tried searching for the old dwellingup gold mine but couldnt pin point it.