I could start with breakfast but I think thats for Twitter so if you want to know desperately what it was go there.
We’ve actually been stationery for a whole 8 days in ‘Owlbany’. Lots to see and do although we’ve tended to do just one main thing each day. Day one was lousy weather, not particularly good for sight seeing but we used it to orient ourselves as we were staying a fair way out of town at Emu Beach. Albany is a surprisingly large village, with all of the big name retailers and traders so we did use some time for stocking up on a few items either lost or misplaced along the way or forgotten initially and some considerable time on the phone to Centrelink trying to sort out why they tell us one thing and do something entirely different. Ahh the mysteries of bureaucracy.
We shared happy hour over a couple of nights with Ian and Maureen, two individuals travelling together each in their own mobile homes and I can safely say that there is hope for us all yet. Ian admits to being 81, his mobile home is home and has been for some years and Maureen bemoans the fact that she left purchasing her first mobile home until she was 77 and is now on her second. Great fun, very entertaining. He peeled off to head back to Sydney for his annual licence renewal test.
Albany I think lays claim to being WA’s first settlement, dating back to 1826 with the arrival of the Amity a two masted brig carrying 61 souls, including 20 odd prisoners. I mention this because there is a replica of this ship in the historic precinct and it really is an education. It sits in the same precinct as the new Albany Entertainment centre which is an impressively modern piece of architecture as a countrerpoint to the historic bits. Further on in the same area are the docks dealing with some very heavy duty shipping.
The interwebby thingy is overly slow tonight and I’m having difficulty uploading photos so its a verbal only now.
Some photos to follow will include Whale World, Princess Royal Fort, the Gap and Bridge and blowhole etc
We’re now in Walpole and will take a tree top walk tomorrow.
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Sounds like you are having a blast!
Don’t forget to check out Fernhook Falls & Rowell’s Pool nearby (20km north of Walpole and has a camping area – not sure about winnie access), The Gloucester Tree in Pemberton, Gnomesville (Ferguson Valley area), The Jewel Of Augusta (a cave), Wave Rock and Bunbury Observatory one night 🙂
Regards,
g@z.
So it’s been another week…. do you have another winner? 🙂
Regards,
g@z.
Did I read right, modern architecture was described as impressive?
Wow. did you see the caves etc.
JP