Something to remember if you're traveling to Peth-- This is a new city. Established in 1829 as the center of the Swan River colony, it's a marvel that Perth is what it is today. It is in the opinion of this writer that despite its burgeoning population, its sprouting sky scrapers and its mass-transit system, Perth, in many ways retains much of its backwater and isolated history as the main convict colony of the west. The entire state of Western Australia is for the most part unsettled,  more...