Mettams Pool
Reef-sheltered rock pool with calm water, edging a former nineteenth-century droving route.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Mettams Pool in Perth starts with a red-lipped fish and then steps back to the eighteen nineties, when camel drivers and cattle drovers followed this shoreline during the gold rush. You'll hear about the Coastal Stock Route and how the reef shapes the water inside the pool. Best heard standing at the edge of the rock, looking out over the lagoon.
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