Bart Bear's Blog

One of the things we did in Perf was to go on a boat trip up the Swan River to a winery. The Oldies liked this trip because it had lunch included as well and there were prawns for Mum and curries for Dad. Plus as much wine as they could drink (and they are pretty good at putting good wine away). It really doesn't take much to keep my Oldies happy. The boat was a bit different to others Scruffy and I have been on. It was very low so that it could get under the bridges it had to go under. Just a big aluminium punt really. The trip went past lots of big houses, most of them with boats tied up at private wharves. The winery was called "Waters Edge". Not because it was actually at the water's edge, even though it was. It was because the first people to own it were called Waters. The boat passengers were shown around the winery and were able to sample everything. The wines were (reportedly) great and the Oldies even bought some special Port. It was just as well it was downhill to the boat because lots of passengers couldn't walk all that straight on the way back. Maybe that was why the captain let Scruff and I drive on the way downriver; we were the most sober passengers on board. With Scruff navigating and working the throttles, and yours truly at the wheel we got back to Barrack St jetty right on schedule. Small bears to the rescue again.

Labels: boats, Perth, Western Australia