When you’re a kid, museums can be the absolute pits – getting dragged through dreary buildings and nagged at - "don’t touch!", "shoosh!", "I never said it was going to be like the zoo!". All I wanted was to ride my BMX to a place where I could torment mini-fauna with a magnifying glass. Enter Town of Vincent’s Wetlands Heritage Trail.
Prior to ‘us’ a chain of lakes spread from North Perth through Hyde Park all the way to Claisebrook. They acted as an aboriginal food-bowl that became our vege-basket. ‘Flood paranoia’ (an aversion to leaches and northern sprawl) saw the lakes drained – right now just 1% remains. So, to ‘encourage reflection on the natural and social history of the area’ the dynamic TOV has established a bike/walk trail which snakes between the extant lakes and tricks us into learning.
Just print out the online PDF map, download the MP3 podtours and get your wetland on! P.S. binoculars turned upside-down can double as a magnifier.
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