Northam
is a nice small town not far (only 97 kilometres) east of Perth. A quite
unusual attraction of Northam is a colony of white swans (in case you
do not know - native swans here, in Western Australia, are black). Swans
were brought from England by Russian settler Oscar Bernard (later mayor
of the town) at the turn of 19th century. The colony is the only one
to breed naturally in Australia.
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