Painting day 26 - Matilda Bay

A nice early start painting today, we got started at 9:30 down at Matilda Bay looking across to the city. A wide sweeping bay with lots of yachts to the west and a great view to the cty but right into the morning sun!

There's a few nice scenes to paint here so we'll most likely return

Fronting the University of Western Australia, Matilda Bay is believed to have been named after the wife of John Septimus Roe (rather than what we assumed...). The U.S. Navy had a fleet of flying boats based here during World War II , and in 1943 Qantas flew flights direct to Sri Lanka. There's also nice public bbq's available and that gave us an idea for next time....