A frontier town with a boom-and-bust mentality, Perth likes to brag it has more millionaires per head than anywhere else on earth. Traveller Asha Gill hooks up with a handful of locals who’ve found a slice of the good life in one of the most isolated cities on earth.

She meets:

Simon Gilby – a sculptor who loves to litter the world with strange objects. Simon shows Asha what happens when artists hijack a beach and a winged man puts a new suburb into a spin.

Kylie Wheatley – the founder of the Fremantle art market – psyches Asha up for the city’s Tomato Festival and introduces her to a block of ice, a piece of rope and a very steep hill.

Ron Wise – a Margaret River vineyard owner who rewards Asha’s hard yakka with a little piece of Elvis on four wheels.

Jo Perrott – a property developer who scores front-row seats for the demolition of a Perth icon and invites Asha to a pearl harvesting party where the real gems come out of the fry pan.

Alex Archer – the fiddle player with Perth indie band the Kill Devil Hills, who pay their respects to a musical legend the only way they know how.

Phil Coulthard –  a marine biologist on first-name terms with two hundred wild dolphins getting frisky in Koombana Bay

Kyle Manchester – a surf instructor who makes Asha stand up on her own two feet and takes her emu dancing with the Wardandi clan on a moonlit beach.

Lonely Planet Television would like to thank Tourism WA.