Albany

Isn't he cute...

Hello, I am writing this from a lovely little camp spot just out of Albany called Cosy corner. We are going to stop adding to our "places we could live list" because, from  what we have seen of this coast we could point to anywhere on a map and be happy to live there.

We had a stock up at the shops, and have visited the famers market ( we have been having lovely lunches)

 

 We visited the "cute" Dog rock, and got some Japanese tourists to take our picture, they also snapped us with all there cameras too (haha) I really think they wanted to dog-nap Delta as they couldn't stop looking at her and talking about her .

We also checked out the Trondirrup National Park and saw the natural Bridge ...

 And we tried to make our own bridge..

 While we were there we also saw the "gap", which is a huge 25m sheer drop to this mass of white water and churning ocean underneath. If you fell in and by chance survived the fall, there is no way out an you would just keep getting smashed into this rock face. Not pleasant, and we took notice off all the warning signs up and had heard that there had been many "accidents" here, from over keen tourists.

We visited the Salmon Holes, which also has a very sad story to it, but not with over-keen tourists, but fishermen. One just drowned last week. There is a t of coverage in the media, if they should close this beach of not. In stead of fishing off the beach people have been walking the rock in the middle left side of the picture , and when a big wave comes in washes them off, and into the water...

 

 Did I mention that on our way here we stopped in at this yummy Whiskey brewery.... Single malt, and some spirits. Too bad you had to pay per tasting, so we were limited but still had a few each, Nick on the whiskey and I had a whiskey liquor, and tried some absinthe.... mmm

While out this was we thought we had better spend a night "out of town" as we had slept at the lookout previously, and didn't want to be "found out", so we found a nice little spot to camp at for our second night. Nick rocked out the Kayak the next day at check ship wreck called the "Chestly 2". Where he also caught some Trevally and some Tuna. Was a stunning day and we managed to get some decent reception, and got to Skype with our friend Isla over in Canada. We then met some locals who were real friendly and told us of a few other spots to check out, gave us  weather report and we ended up having a big long chat. They also told us that these ticks were no problem to our bogs but were Kangaroo Ticks (we still front-lined "em anyway)

We decided to move on, we had encountered too many locals, so we "checked out" Mistaken Island, then had a bit of a drive around the coast and came back later and snuck a camp at Mistaken Island, the beach is below.

 

 

 After driving around the coast of the lovely King George sound, and its harbors, we found a nice look out to take it the sunset. We like "sounds" not just your vocal kind, but the actual scenic kind.

 The weather had turned a bit cold wet and dark, so we decided to have an explore at the museum, plus I had seen an exhibition that I wanted to check out.

 

 This is a meteorite that was found near Mundabrilla, which is where we drove through crossing the Nullarbor. It was made of Nickel, Copper and Iron and this one weighed nearly 5 tonne.

 They even had a kids section, out the front, and after looking at the adult displays, well we felt like playing.

 

 

This is a replica of the first ship that came to Post Albany, called the Brig Amity.

They had a great Exhibit on called "Line of sight" and we kinda sneakily took some pix... it was love at first sight for nick....

 

 

 And this guy was giving me attitude....

 

Having a yummy lunch at the lookout near this "Telstra" tower was great way to spot the black clouds rolling in,  we got great reception so we applied to a couple of WWOOFing places that we are interested in, after all that eating and applying we thought we'd finish the day off with a beer. We visited the Albany pub, on Yorke St. Well wouldn't recommend it, we were charged $10 per pint, of James squire, the bartender was rude also.

 

 Sahara was looking to make sure I was coming, then at the snail, maybe wanting to get back to ground level... an ever curious pup.

 

 

And that takes us to Cosy corner, where I'm sitting now typing this.... Nick just got word that we have been accepted  to WWOOF at Denmark, so next Wednesday its on!!! We are both excited to meet some new people and we keep hearing from people that Denmark would "suit us", what ever that means. Off we go for a beach walk.....