Transperth - not about the transexual community apparently

I spent a few hours this afternoon trawling through the WA Schools Online site and the Transperth (love that name!) journey planner site researching where schools are located and how to get there.

Firstly, I'm very relieved that the Transperth site exists as I'm hoping to continuing surviving without a car - and thus continuing to avoid confronting my fear of driving.

Secondly, I found this a surprisingly challenging and interesting task. It turns out that the far quicker way of doing things would have been to search for schools on Google maps, but I didn't think of that until I had nearly finished. Bummer.

But in the process I improved my still rudimentary knowledge of Perth geography and encountered any number of suburbs I've never heard of before (i.e. not mentioned by Perth expats as suitable places to live).

The upshot is that Fremantle, while the most frequently recommended place to live, (yes, I know it's not really in Perth - apparently that's the point) is not located all that conveniently to many high schools. Something to think about...