[Photos] Bell's Lookout

Look, something that isn't the UK!

I'm trying to be more diligent about posting photo posts this year, even if they're (very) belated. I sort of want to get better about logging my life in a place that isn't just Instagram.

On Glen's birthday, he'd prepared for a flat, uneventful day, and I dragged him out of the house to Bell's Lookout, because I had the feeling the sunset would be stellar.

It was.

It's also like only a 10 minute drive from us, if that.


A very popular area for horseback riding. Or just sitting back and enjoying the sunset.



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[Photos] Ellenbrook Park

So, bemusingly, Ellenbrook now has a 'central park' along the main stretch that is designed for picnics, barbecues and more. It's been well designed, and it will eventually have suburbs and commercial areas around it. Ellenbrook is, after all, one of the best planned cities in the world.

HOWEVER, to my immense satisfaction and also like, total what-the-fuckery, the park is EXTREMELY PAGAN. I don't know how to describe this to people who don't know, so I'll just describe it more for people who do - there is a concerted use of thresholds, centering, sacred geometry and the actual invocation of Venus set in literal marble before a seven spoked star entwined in words that sound more like spellcrafting. It's...incredible. There is writing after writing set down into the stone, centred in the location, located at a threshold, speaking of Venus repeatedly. Like, it's really quite layered and thoughtfully done.

I don't have photos of much of this, because it was slowly coming together in my head as I walked around the park.

There has also been a real genuine effort to co-mingle the Noongar culture along with that of the settlers who came here. This reflects in both the architecture and sculptures (including sculptures of reefs alongside Victorian style teapots, it's hard to explain), along with Eucalpytus motifs and similar.

While we were at the park, a bunch of Carnaby's black cockatoos flew in and quite happily stayed around.


Most of the trees are very young right now.



( I'm sure they didn't mean for the park to be terribly pagan but I have a sneaking suspicion they *totally did.* )