Tranby? Yes TRANBY HOUSE! Here our WACC (photographic club) chose to meet at 5:30 am to enjoy the dawn breaking on Australia Day 2014. And you stayed in bed and missed it!!! Well lucky for you I took some snaps!! And Skippy wasn't one of them. But seeing it was Australia Day I thought a bush kangaroo couldn't be more appropriate.
Of course the Australian flag hung proudly...but on a Canadian boat? Well you can't have everything even if you do watch the sunrise chanting the Australian National Anthem...well almost. We had quite a crowd taking the same photograph so I thought I'd get mine in first.
Then I started to wonder about the roots of this wonderful place. Yes Tranby house, thanks to the
Perth Road Board, a plaque mounted to honour the century plus old building, let us know that it was built in 1830. An experienced Yeoman farmer from Yorkshire,
Joseph Hardey, had arrived on the good ship TRANBY
and had chosen this site to establish his house and farm
So when you visit Maylands next stop at the Tranby House Museum and refresh yourself at the quaint cafe. The ghost of Joseph Hardey won't concern you but the breath-taking views will. AND you don't have to be there at morning break.
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