History that may only interest me

Seeing as I know very little of history, let alone gay history, I've been doing a fair bit of research for my story.

All the histories of lesbianism I could find basically said "First there was Sappho, then we don't know very much, then there was the late 19th century, etc". Via nico_wolfwood however I came across Anne Lister and from there absolutely adorable story of The Ladies of Llangollen.

A pair of pretty young anglo-irish heiresses they fell in love in their teens, ran away together to Wales, and stayed in a big rambling strange old house until they died in their 80s. They became famous for their life-choice and lots of people came to meet them, after they died their house stayed a local attraction. In this 1840s book there's lots of quotes from various contemporaries about how they're odd but charming. They do tend to be a bit condescending, but personally I'd rather have people think I was cute than chase after me with pitchforks.

Also I've been listening to the History of Information podcast, about how the american postal service was originally meant as a way of cheaply delivering newspapers (and thus keeping the scattered population informed) Actual letters were just seen as a way of subsidising this, and thus were charged at a days wage per page. So people sent newspapers with coded messages encoded in them, by doodling "random" images or poking teeny holes in the letters etc, until the government gave in and made everything cost the same to post :)

Getting to Synergy Parkland from near Sir Charles Gairdener hospital

So I'm tossing up going to the swancon bbq. On the one hand, it's an awful lot of effort, on the other I would like to go(*). Cam is plausibly going to be too busy to give me a lift, and I don't want to organise a lift with anyone else in case I suddenly have to cancel. (The energy it takes to be there far outweighs the energy it takes to get there assuming I can find a low-walking public transport option)

Anyway, after much messing about with the Transperth website (and ringing their info line who had no idea what suburb Kings Park was in), looking at google maps it occurred to me that the best way to get there might be to catch a bus to the corner of winthrop ave/thomas rd and walk through the park.

Is this plausible? I don't think I've ever entered the park from that side so I have no clue and don't want to end up looking up at a cliff or fence or something (like I would if I took the transperth site's advice and caught the cat to Mounts Bay hospital. Clearly their algorithm does not consider vertical distance)

(*)I know they said to rsvp, but since I couldn't eat much last time, and now my diet's even MORE restrictive, I can't see me turning up being much of an inconvenience. I'll bring my own munchies and pay a donation like I did last time.