Perth - Fremantle Shipwreck Galleries

The Shipwreck Galleries contain everything that has sunk, foundered or got a nasty scratch. The museum itself is rather big and dingy so photography doesn't work very well. Still, got a few nice piccies although they don't really do the place justice. There's tales of many Europeans sailing over and getting all shipwrecked before turning on each other and ending up in all sorts of bother. In all, a lot of tales that scream 'Fly!'.

Young people. This comes under the general heading of; the street sculptures round here are really nice. Nearby, a wall dedicated to decades of immigration records the first impressions of new arrivals. One reads; 'When I first arrived, there was nothing here'. Still true.
Silly post to have this on - it hasn't sunk yet.
Aha.
An engine lifted from a wreck. I think that someone is going to try and get it going.
Where the engine was when they found it. Noice boilers.
I dunno. A thingy.
That's better. The hull of a wooden ship recovered from the wreck site.
A cannon - probably not in much of a fireable state.
What ships used to look like.
This was lifted from a wreck. Not in one piece, you understand. This was being shipped to Perth as a kind of stone Ikea flat-pack, presumably to adorn the front of someone's house. Someone with very bad taste indeed.