Luc-Roger Mbala-Bemba, Ellis Mnyandu, Dzifa Bampoe and Peterson Thiong’o in the Swan Valley near Perth

Ellis Mnyandu inspecting the wreck of the Batavia, on display in the WA Maritime Museum’s Shipwreck Gallery after hundreds of years on the sea floor.

The journalists toured the WA Shipwreck Museum’s conservation area.

WA Maritime Museum Executive Director Dr Ian MacLeod spent an afternoon taking the journalists on a tour of the museum.

Australian Olympian Jane Moran with Ellis Mnyandu

Peterson Thiong’o, Dzifa Bampoe, Ellis Mnyandu and Luc-Roger Mbala Bemba with kangaroos at Caversham Wildlife Park, Swan Valley, WA.

The journalists met members of the Australian Olympic team who were on their way to a 'welcome home' celebration. Back row, l to r: Dzifa Bampoe (Ghana), Luc-Roger Mbala Bemba (Democratic Republic of Congo), Peterson Thiong'o (Kenya), Olympians Amy Cure (cycling), Blake Gaudry (gymnastics – trampoline), Jane Moran (waterpolo), and journalist Ellis Mnyandu (South Africa). Front l to r: Joshua Jefferis (gymnastics), Jessica Fox (kayak).

Dzifa Bampoe with a koala at Caversham Wildlife Park, Swan Valley, WA

The journalists visited the Maalinup Indigenous Art Gallery in the Swan Valley, where they tasted bush tucker. Ellis Mnyandu plans to take Maalinup’s bush tucker entrepreneurship story back to regional communities in South Africa

Bush tucker on display at Maalinup Indigenous Art Gallery.

Indigenous Elder Dale Tillbrook hosted the journalists for the afternoon at Maalinup Indigenous Art Gallery, demonstrating weapons and giving a mini-lecture about valuable local rocks and minerals.

Dale Tillbrook and the journalists spent a lot of time discussing kinship and culture, finding many resonances and shared stories

Mining machinery on its way to the Pilbara. The journalists were interested in mobile infrastructure and the support industry, stopping to take photos at the huge Westrac yards in outer Perth.

Foreign Minister Senator Bob Carr met the journalists, and Luc-Roger Mbala Bemba gave him a copy of the newspaper where he is Chief Editor: L’Observateur.

Murdoch University’s School of Media Communications hosted a meeting with the journalists: back row l to r Associate Professor Chris Smyth, Dean; Andrew Porter, lecturer in journalism; and Emerita Associate Professor Gail Phillips. Front l to r Peterson Thiong’o, Ellis Mnyandu and Luc-Roger Mbala Bemba.

No photos were allowed inside the Rio Tinto “nerve centre” when the journalists visited. The centre manages workflow and runs driverless trucks and trains in the Pilbara, remotely. In the foreground, Olivier Caslin is talking to Rio Tinto communications manager Gervase Green following the visit.

Ellis Mnyandu and Luc-Roger Mbala Bemba met the Joondalup Cubs in downtown Perth.

A chance meeting with renowned Italian set designer Edoardo Sanchi led to an invitation to tour backstage at His Majesty’s Theatre in Perth, and view preparations for the world premiere of the WA Ballet’s production of Pinocchio.

Ellis Mnyandu and Luc-Roger Mbala Bemba at the “Tree of Life”, a sculpture marking a children’s peace project launched at CHOGM in 2011.