Dog Swamp Shopping Centre

For a local shopping mall! This centre is pretty decent!
It had a Coles for your grocer! A gym for the work outs, foods and liquor! I’ve also gone here many times to get my hair cut!
Lots of parking, a decent area!

This shopping centre doesn’t just have a strange name. The whole place is a bit weird. It is right next door to another shopping centre, with only a badly designed and maintained car park between.
Dog Swamp has all the main things covered. For food shopping they have Woolworths, a fruit and vege store and a butcher. To eat they have a café, pasta, japanese and of course Subway. There are also heaps of speciality stores from travel to books and newsagency.
The shops are well maintained and clean. This place draws a mixed bunch, with lots of students and singles from the Tuart Hill area and those more wealthy from the neighbouring Mt Lawley area.

This unfortunately named shopping centre is named after the local swamp, oddly enough called Dog Swamp. I think it got it’s name from its shape. This is a bit of a weird shopping centre. It used to have an independent supermarket, but it was bought out by Woolies. So it is one of the biggest Woolies I have seen, with very wide aisles.
The rest of the shopping centre is a hodge podge of speciality shops — second han book store, newsagent, Subway, a barber and more. Yokine is a really weird mix of poor students and the more wealthy from neighbouring Mt Lawley.
This is not a shopping centre you would go to hang out and shop with your friends. More a get in, get what you need and get out kind of deal. Or maybe because I remember being here years ago when they had 10 different people overdose in the carpark on the same day.

Dog Swamp!
When I first saw this sign I burst out laughing, what an odd name for a shopping centre, or anything really. My curiosity got the better of this cat so I pulled up and began my exploration. Shopping centres– urgh. fluros, crowds and consumerism.. . the dog swamp ticks all of the boxes. I don’t know why I didn’t expect it to be busy but, as far as the Perth pace goes, it was pumping. Fitted with all of the major chains and several coin operated dispensers lining the entrance and random nooks. All in all it was quite a pleasant stroll through, however I think I was distracted by the high ceilings and became disorientated. The centre has a certain familiarity to it however there is a dog leg that lead me astray and the exit I took was not the initial entrance.. . a little bit of backtracking and reaffirming that this was a foreign shopping centre to me, put me back on track.
An interesting mix– worth going if for no other reason, then simply to say that you’ve been!