Matilda Bay Reserve
Riverside parkland with lawns and moorings, home to a tiny, famously photographed blue boatshed.
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This guide to Matilda Bay Reserve in Crawley, Perth, follows the small blue boatshed at its edge, a plain nineteen-thirties timber shed that passed through three generations of one family and several owners before its unlikely later fame. You will hear about a Lord Mayor of Perth, a federal politician's advice on a coat of paint, and the champion sailors who relaunched it, on a shoreline otherwise known for yacht clubs and Olympic sailing. Best heard standing on the little jetty at the water's edge.
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