Kings Park

This past Saturday Danielle and I went for a long bike ride through Kings Park. Luckily, it’s located right across the street from my campus so we were able to bike right from home – no car required. The park is massive and sits atop a hill overlooking the river and cityscape. There is probably more than a days worth of things to see at this park and in the few hours that we were riding through we didn’t even see it all. Some of the lawns were more well groomed than your average golf course. I was impressed by this observation.

One of the features of this particular park is a structure called the “DNA Tower” (picture attached). It’s a double helix like structure composed of two intertwined staircases much like that of your cellular DNA. The molecular biologist side of me was unimpressed that the tower was not built with a major and minor groove to reflect, more closely, the actual structure or DNA. I got over it though and we did climb all 101 stairs to the top and took a moment to enjoy the view. From the top we were able to see a great distance and including the river and most of downtown. Definitely a great view. So far, this is the only destination in Perth that I would recommend to other travelers.

I also noticed at the park there were camels who were outfitted with saddles. I assume they were for hire but, being in Perth, the merchant did not have a clear sign posted with pricing or anything. Once again, being in Perth, this did not surprise me whatsoever.

I'll be back at the pack sometime to see the rest of the sights. I understand there are some nice botanical gardens and something called a whisper wall.