In an around Geraldton, Western Australia.

Mount Scott.

The city is home to the Port of Geraldton, a major west coast seaport. Geraldton is an important service and logistics center for regional mining, fishing, wheat, sheep and tourism industries.

We arrived in Geraldton on August 23, 2015, and found a caravan park easily down by the sea. So it's along time in fact it's 10 years since we visited there. 

There is a hill in Geraldton called Mount Scott, we could see it but be hanged if we could find it. Two days of driving around the city sightseeing and we stumbled across the hill.

On this hill is the 'Rotary Memorial,  World War 11 cruiser Sydney. 

The memorial recognises the loss of the light cruiser during a mutually destructive fight with the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran off Shark Bay in November 1941, with none of the 645 aboard surviving.

(Note, this vessel is the second Australian warship to be named HMAS Sydney, and is sometimes referred to as HMAS Sydney (II))

645 steel seagulls

The Waiting Women.  Waiting for her child to return, but of course, he never does!

The Point Moore Lighthouse, located south of the Geraldton Port is a cultural and historical attraction. It is the oldest surviving Commonwealth lighthouse in Western Australia and was also the first steel tower to be constructed on the mainland of Australia. The Point Moore lighthouse stands 35m tall and its 1000w Tungsten Halogen Lamp can be seen for 23 nautical miles. It began operation in 1878.  

A very long way from home.

Sunset at Geraldton, Western Australia

 There is something wonderful for me to see the sun go down behind the sea.  We see it here on our West Coast and the West Coast of Australia which is a long coastline.  The photos are taken on the beach near Geraldton in Western Australia on one of our visits there.

Catholic Church, Geraldton WA

St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, Geraldton, WA is a Roman Catholic Catherdral.
The Cathedral was designed by Monsignor Hawes (Priest and Architect), who arrived in Geraldton as a parish priest in 1915 - the building is generally regarded as one of his finest works.
The foundation stone was laid in 1916 and the building completed in 1938.

 

The sun was totally in the wrong place, inside the Cathedral it was so very dark.

Geraldton, WA

Geraldton, Western Australia.

A few photos.

Having two digital cameras is good thing when travelling. The larger camera, the Nikon D7100 has been around the clock 1.1/2 times thus far.  Smaller one is handy to take with me in certain situations, this one is a Panasonic DMC-TZID which I have had for ages.  Then of course always the phone camera.

Totally forgot that the Panasonic had a built in GPS until I got to near Geraldton, so I turned it on and found it extremely handy for it shows me exactly where the photos were taken.  So many places that one travels through that it's easy to forget, 'where was that one taken'. 

Having an adaptor for the iPad is excellent for transferring photos onto the iPad whilst travelling, they are easily viewed and saves turning on the laptop everyday. They are still on the camera card and can be transferred at leisure to the computer or laptop.

A beach right next to the city.

The loos near the beach, certainly different.

On the beach at Sunset.  The caravan park was behind me.

The Point Moore Lighthouse, located south of the Geraldton Port is a cultural and historical attraction. It is the oldest surviving Commonwealth lighthouse in Western Australia and was also the first steel tower to be constructed on the mainland of Australia. The Point Moore lighthouse stands 35m tall and its 1000w Tungsten Halogen Lamp can be seen for 23 nautical miles. It began operation in 1878.  

Wikipedia

A Hotel in the main street of Geraldton.

Town Clock

Main Street

A surf shop

Information Centre

A lovely old building

A disused Church.

Mount Scott, Geraldton, WA

The city is home to the Port of Geraldton, a major west coast seaport. Geraldton is an important service and logistics centre for regional mining, fishing, wheat, sheep and tourism industries.

Arrived in Geraldton on August 23, 2015 and found a caravan park easily down by the sea.  Certainly cooler weather which we were not looking forward to, but you get used to it.

There is a hill in Geraldton called Mount Scott, we could see it, but be hanged if we could find it. Two days of driving around the city sightseeing and we stumbled across the hill.

On this hill is the 'Rotary Memorial,  World War 11 cruiser Sydney. 

The memorial recognises the loss of the light cruiser during a mutually destructive fight with the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran off Shark Bay in November 1941, with none of the 645 aboard surviving.

(Note, this vessel is the second Australian warship to be named HMAS Sydney, and is sometimes referred to as HMAS Sydney (II))

645 steel seagulls

Above is the Podium

One of the two granite walls with all the names.

The Waiting Women.  Waiting for her child to return, but of course, he never does!

The Stele

By the map you can see we have come a long way.

The Memorial is a Rotary International Project.

Geraldton WA. HMAS Sydney 11 Memorial.

The HMAS Sydney ll Memorial is for me a place that touches my heart, it's beautifully done. A Memorial honouring 645 Australian sailors who were lost off the Western Australian coast during a World War ll battle.  This memorial is one of the loveliest I have seen.

Doves of Peace

A Women waiting and looking for her son to return - who never does.

The Great Southern Ocean, taken near the Memorial.