A lazy day today and a bit of shopping which required some chasing about - JB HiFi, Bunnings, SuperCheapm Auto etc to get a small tablet and mount to run our topographic maps in the car. Also looking for some director's chairs with side tables (we're a bit taken by Margaret and Arthur's). Didn't find any chairs but managed most other things. Jill even found a bottle brush for cleaning water bottles.
We had lunch in a favourite place of Shelleys - Manner (a health food shop and cafe) Mussaman Curry with Tempeh for Jill and a vegetable lasagne for Alex. Stocked up on a few things while we were there.
Back to camp for a restful afternoon. Late in the afternoon, we went for a walk along the foreshore past the wreck of the Omeo to North Coogee. Still lots of development going on here.
We couldn't see much of the Omeo but apparently, it is Perth's premier beachside shipwreck dive, close to shore in the shallow, clear waters of Port Coogee. The Omeo is a historically significant and federally protected iron steamship that was built in 1858 in Newcastle (England) and later converted to a sailing ship. It was used to lay the Bass Strait Telegraph cable, and the Overland Telegraph linking Australia to Britain via Singapore.
The vessel was involved in international trade and participated in inter-colonial passenger networks. It traded for many years between Adelaide, Melbourne and New Zealand, and famously collided with, and wrecked, the Swan Spit pile lighthouse in Port Phillip in 1881, before becoming a coal hulk. The Omeo was driven ashore and wrecked in 1905.
