Among it’s various virtues, which include nice folks like my old friends, Alan and Allison Chapple who are natives there (Alan did his PhD at the same time as me in Durham with CKB) 
, there are nice hotels like the Aloft, a brand new one in the Marriot chain
. There is also an excellent and beautiful university built in the old style (looks rather like a Catholic institution in the states) called the University of West Australia—-
That’s a jackaranda tree in the foreground there. 
The King’s Park has a botanical garden, not to mention beautiful black swans like this one….
Here are some of the flora in the botanical garden…
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