2017 Anzac Day

Well it was another early start for this years Anzac Day Dawn service, up at 3 o'clock so we could get a good spot near the cenotaph, as they usually have any where between 40 and 60 thousand Sandgropers attending.

All the kiddies made it this year and as you can see they were all excited to be there, ha,ha well they were there that was the important bit and as the day wore on they loved it.

What you might call a mob selfie!

The Cenotaph is at it's most impressive during the dawn light, the 18 meter granite obelisk honors all Western Australians who gave their lives in the service of their country.

Then it was time for our annual 'Champagne breakfast', which washed down our Anzac biscuits and ham/cheese/tomato sangers just beautifully.... bloody dawn light!

Oscar at the 'Flame of Remembrance'.

Then it was time for a walkabout around the park, here we are crossing the skybridge, where not only can you walk among the treetops, but you can have a ripper gander at the spectacular Matilda bay.

After a short walk we then climbed the D.N.A Tower where you can see the beaut view of the Swan River, and on a ripper day like today you can even see over to Rottnest Island.

And finally we kept up with our tradition of picking a solider to honor, and this year we found a fella named Captain Cecil Maitland Foss, who fought with the 28th Australian Infantry Battalion. Born in Arrino which is near Three Springs WA, Cecil was a farmer before enlisting into the first world war.

At 25 years old he served for 18 months in Egypt, Gallipoli and France before being wounded at Pozieres on the 5th of August and died of his wounds six days latter on the 11th of August 1916.

'The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him'.

G. K. CHESTERTON, The New Jerusalem