We arrived in Albany on the 11th of November, just in time to commemorate Armistice Day in the local park, very moving Ceremony extremely well attended by both the towns folk and tourists alike.
The address was given by Brigadier Hand who spoke on when Australian Soldiers became united as one Army seperate to the English in WW1, he delivered a very pertinent speech about the dangers facing us as a Nation today from nearby neighbours, Islamic and minority groups who are rapidly undermining our way of life with the help of Government.
We camped in a little place called Two Peoples Bay, great little van park, weather was bloody cold and miserable with scattered showers and wind.
Not to let that stop us, we did the Kalgan Cruise around the bay and the Kalgan River, the Skipper knew his stuff with entertaining commentary on the history of the area, bird life was plentiful and the damper and tea topped it all off. These 3 photo's had to be emailed due to a stuff up with SD cards in cameras and I haven't learned how to get my Apple to open Windows files yet so if the detail is not there, thats the reason.
We took a tour of the ANZAC Centre for the afternoon followed by a night time stroll up the Avenue of Honour field of lights, truely awesome sight, thousands of lights changing colour the full length of the Avenue. At least the rain cleared for a few hours which enabled us to do this. Apparently these lights are the same ones used at Ayres Rock last year and these will be operating nightly until ANZAC Day next year. Albany seems to have its Tourist base on the ANZAC theme.
Another early rise to a wet and windy day so we pulled stakes and headed north east towards Lake Grace to see the "Jelly Bean Lake' which is advertised as a pink Lake but on arrival we find out it can be white, green or a blue colour, white for our visit but we found a really bright pink one further south which was also close to a set of wheat silos with great murals. Gifted artist there for sure, the detail was fantastic.
Just look at the detail in there.
Rolled in to Hyden to get a battery replaced as a cell had collapsed in one of the deep cycle ones for the fridges.
Wave Rock, what an eye opener there, the forces of nature that sculptured that lot defy belief, it was apparently formed by water erosion but looks like the rock was plasticine when the centre was forced up and the sides started to roll over the edge and then solidified, either way the result is awesome. There are some great water sculptures on the top as well.
We did the walk up and around and then along to Hippo's Yawn, that is a massive rock that looks for all the world like hippos mouth minus the teeth.
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