Giant raindrops fall with loud taps on banana leaves, strange flowers with heady perfume bloom just for a day and waterfalls drape down distanthills like strands of tinsel.
From a sun lounger on your private rosewood deck, all you can see is a stretch of tawny grassland extending beyond your infinity-edge pool to a ridge of distanthills.
Kings Park, situated around the green slopes of Mt Eliza, is just a short walk from the city centre and offers great views of the surrounding area and the distant blue hills of the Darling Ranges.