Geraldton is very under rated as a tourist destination. I like it. I was surprised to see replicas of some of the Batavia relics there.

@WesternAustraliaNowAndThen

4 жыл бұрын

I'm being a bit sneaky and using a bit of old footage with new stuff :) The Batavia exhibit has now moved the the Shipwrecks Gallery in Freo :)

@Top-Jimmy

4 жыл бұрын

Being a local,There are still original relics of the Batavia here in town ;-)

Beautiful place, some day of my life, i'll travel to WA, Beautiful state, amazing places, beautiful streets, Greetings from Venezuela!

@WesternAustraliaNowAndThen

2 жыл бұрын

Hope you manage to get here and travel around.

Love the aerial shot of the HMAS Sydney memorial. Seen it many times but never from that angle.

@WesternAustraliaNowAndThen

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, that was actually taken with our old Phantom 1 before it even had a gimbal on it, it was very jerky and all I could do was pick out a couple of the least worst bits :)

As a Mexican American id love to visit Western Australia one day! Looks lovely

@WesternAustraliaNowAndThen

3 жыл бұрын

Hope you get the chance to visit one day.

the local first nation people are so welcoming, no crime here at all

@aaronforeman1696

Жыл бұрын

That they are....I still fondly remember being harassed whenever in the town centre for cigarettes or money $. I can also testify to the rapid loss of personal property (i.e. motorcycle). Its such a rare privilege to share one's hard earnt possessions with some of the select locals living in Gero.

I did live far from Geraldton and just south of dongara port dension it's onced has Cray fishing industry

@parix85

2 жыл бұрын

How is the weather there mate..

I meant to say the nation of Australia out there.

美麗...美好的地方

Where does Mandurah rank?

@WesternAustraliaNowAndThen

4 жыл бұрын

Sorry for the late reply, been away for a while. Mandurah is a bit of a sneaky one as it covers rather a large area depending on how you look at it. For some reason I don't tend to think of it as a country town, which I suppose it really is. If the whole of Greater Mandurah was taken into account then the population would be around 81,000 but then Greater Rockingham comes in at 125,000 so I tend not to look at these places as being anything more than an extension of Greater Perth these days :)

@oneeyedphotographer

4 жыл бұрын

@@WesternAustraliaNowAndThen Officially Mandurah is not part of the metropolitan area. It was, briefly, and the outcry was deafening.

@WesternAustraliaNowAndThen

4 жыл бұрын

@@oneeyedphotographer I think sooner or later it will be again as the whole coast from Yanchep to Mandurah becomes one long strip of suburban jungle.

Paradise… but keep it quiet…😊

I had to turn off the commentary because ... IT WAS SO BORING!!!!!

@WesternAustraliaNowAndThen

3 жыл бұрын

Well we can't all be David Attenborough :)

Heard Geraldton is a rough place to live with lots of bogans?

@boar7153

2 жыл бұрын

You would be correct.it was a nice place to live but that was 15 to 20 years ago.now it’s a place where shops are closing down and the crime rate is out of control.I’m glad I left the place.

@superzac1485

Жыл бұрын

@@boar7153 Like any place really, there is a bit of crime, but saying that shops are closing down and the crime rate is out of control probably either means you're mixing up with another place, have heard some massively exaggerated rumours, our are a random person trying to make Geraldton look bad.

@boar7153

Жыл бұрын

@@superzac1485 you don’t have to take my word for it.go experience it for yourself.I actually like seeing know it all people like you fall flat on your face.

@aaronforeman1696

Жыл бұрын

@@boar7153 I would have to agree 100% with that...having been born in Gero (1972) and finally leaving in 2005 for Perth... its certainly a different place today.

White Australians took over the entire Continent somewhat.

@WesternAustraliaNowAndThen

Жыл бұрын

Pretty much I guess.