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Australian Pelican floating down Swan River, Perth on a lazy evening. The eyes look like they were painted on while the car was moving - strange.
Sony ILCE-7RM4
FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
ƒ/5.6 400.0 mm 1/1600 ISO 800
More from the construction near the cultural precinct in Perth. I loved the long elegant lines of the cranes and the roof.
I was passing through Perth Central Train Station. Although it was around 10 am I found many of the train platforms were very quiet. The long lines of the platform with the dark ceilings and rail tracks made for a pleasing frame for the platforms and trains. I have several shots to post in this series.
Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is 'Perth Pink'. This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is BEWARE!. This is not a wine for drinking -- this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.
Perth's central Fire Station.
On the corner of Murray Street and Irwin Street, Perth, Western Australia.
Perth Town Hall.
Corner of Hay Street and Barrack Street. Perth Western Australia.
One of the few buildings built in Perth by Convict labour.
60163 'Tornado' can be seen arriving at Perth with The Great Britain XVII on a leg from Inverness to Newcastle
A very pleasant time in Perth's Rodney Garden included a stroll down to a small weir that crosses part of the River Tay to Moncreiffe Island. This coincided with the passing of ScotRail's 13.40 Glasgow Queen Street to Aberdeen service, the rear of which is captured crossing the river as it heads over the Tay Viaduct.
View of Perth from Kings Park, construction of the Kwinana Freeway. Taken on Kodachrome on 7 Sep 1966.
A combination of pristine white sands, shallow beaches, mulitocolored ocean waters, and stunning rock formations fill the island with breathtaking scenery. The only to access the island is by ferry from the mainland - a four minute ferry ride. The island is covered with 2 km of boardwalks, an easy hike on the north side and lots of stairs on the south side where the lookouts platforms are situated.
Sulzer type 2 class 26 no. 26043 is pictured at Perth in 1992. The loco, built by the Birmingham RCW Co. entered traffic as D5343 on 2 October 1959 at Haymarket, Edinburgh. Retiring from service in January 1993, it survived into preservation, owned by the Cotswold Main Line Locomotive Group and is resident on the Gloucestershire & Warwickshire Railway.
Perth Bridge (also known as Smeaton's Bridge, locally, the Old Bridge and in the local dialect of Scots, "the Auld Brig") is a toll-free bridge in the city of Perth, Scotland. It spans the River Tay, connecting Perth, on the western side of the river, to Bridgend, on its eastern side, carrying both automotive and pedestrian traffic of West Bridge Street (the A85). It is a Category A listed structure.
The bridge was completed in October 1771, which places it in the Georgian era; however, its plaque states the year in which construction began, 1766, as its "built" date. The engineer of its construction was John Smeaton, after whom the bridge is named.
The Perth Royal Mint.
On the corner of Hay Street and Victoria Avenue. Perth, Western Australia.
(Wikipedia)
The Perth Mint is Australia's official bullion mint and wholly owned by the Government of Western Australia. Established on 20 June 1899, two years before Australia's Federation in 1901, the Perth Mint was the last of three Australian colonial branches of the United Kingdom's Royal Mint (after the now-defunct Sydney Mint and Melbourne Mint) intended to refine gold from the gold rushes and to mint gold sovereigns and half-sovereigns for the British Empire. Along with the Royal Australian Mint, which produces coins of the Australian dollar for circulation, the Perth Mint is the older of Australia's two mints issuing coins that are legal tender.
History Swan Perth Mint...
Perth Mint, as a business entity, was established during the 1890s, as a subsidiary of the Royal Mint in the United Kingdom.
The foundation stone of the Mint building was laid in 1896 by Sir John Forrest. The building was officially opened on 20 June 1899. At that time, the population of Western Australia (WA) was growing rapidly (23,000 in 1869 and 180,000 in 1900) due to the discovery of rich gold deposits at Coolgardie, Kalgoorlie and the Murchison region.
The Mint initially served two purposes. Firstly, it minted coins for circulation in WA – this had previously been done externally, and as a result, there had often been insufficient currency in circulation. Secondly, the Mint bought the vast majority of gold mined in WA; at the time, a large proportion of mining was done by "diggers" (prospectors and/or small-scale, independent miners), who had migrated to WA in thousands from other parts of Australia and overseas. Mining businesses were able to sell their raw gold directly to the Mint, where it was made into gold coins and bullion.
Although WA took part in the Federation of the Australian colonies in 1901, the Mint remained under the control of the UK government for a further 69 years. On 1 July 1970, ownership was acquired by the state government of Western Australia, as a statutory authority.
In the 32 years up to 1931, the Perth Mint struck more than 106 million gold sovereigns, and nearly 735,000 half-sovereigns (intermittently between 1900 and 1920), for use as currency in Australia and throughout the British Empire. The Mint stopped making gold sovereigns when Britain abandoned the gold standard in 1931. Nevertheless, the refinery remained busy as staff turned their skills to making fine gold bullion bars. But it was not long before the Perth Mint was involved again in the production of coins. During World War II, the Perth Mint began minting the Australian coinage from base metals. Up until the end of 1983, the Perth Mint also manufactured much of Australia's lower-denomination coin currency.
The Perth Mint achieved "arguably the purest of all gold" in 1957 when the mint produced a 13-troy-ounce (400 g) proof plate of almost six nines. It was verified by the Goldsmiths’ Company and deemed to have results of “nearly 999.999 parts per 1000”. 58 The Royal Mint was so impressed that it ordered some of the gold as the benchmark for its own standards.
The Mint's new direction was formalised in 1987 with the creation of Gold Corporation by a State Act of Parliament. Under a unique agreement with the Commonwealth of Australia's Department of the Treasury, the Perth Mint's new operator was empowered to mint and market gold, silver and platinum Australian legal tender coinage to investors and collectors worldwide. Prime Minister Bob Hawke launched the Australian Nugget Gold Coins Series in 1987. The first day's trading yielded sales of 155 thousand troy ounces (4.8 tonnes) of gold worth A$103 million, well above the sales target of 130 thousand troy ounces (4.0 tonnes) to the end of June.
Up to 2000, the Perth Mint's refined gold output totalling 4.5 thousand tonnes (9.9 million pounds), representing 3.25% of the total weight of gold produced by humankind. This is about the current holdings of gold bullion in the United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox.
In 2003, the Perth Mint officially opened an 8,400-square-metre (90,000 sq ft) state-of-the-art manufacturing facility next door to its original limestone building.