On
our way again and we are off to Albany and we wanted to do a couple of more
interesting things along the way, as Albany was only to take just over an hour.
On the way out of Walpole we went to Conspicuous Cliffs, which was once again
spectacular coastline as well as huge swell. Back on the road and listening to
the same CD's over and over again. We have Fleetwood Mac playing and now the
boys just love the songs especially TUSK, and requests the volume to be turned
up really loud. We have Geoff Achison on CD also traveling with us, and it's
funny when he says on the CD "hello", we all say hello back. It's
funny how the smallest thing just makes us all Laugh
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| For you Beau. Bow RIver |
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| Mark singing the song Bow River |
We were headed towards a town called Denmark and were saying to ourselves,
let's go overseas to Denmark. On the way was another town called 'Bow Bridge',
and there is also the river in town called 'Bow River', we had to stop for a
photo for 2 reasons, the first being our nephew Beau and 2nd reason Mark wanted
a singing photo next to the sign, meaning' first thing you know we'll be back
in Bow River again'. For you Beau, a picture next your river. Arriving in
Denmark as they have an award winning bakery, so of course we head straight for
it and have an 11am lunch, well it's 1 pm back home so we are just adjusting
slowly back to the times. Oh great, daylight saving on Sunday begins, so we
will be completely confused or our bodies will be. Yum, this bakery was award
winning we had pies sausage rolls, gingerbread men, vanilla slice, all very
nice indeed and so was the price, um $50 for lunch that's not normal but we
were in Denmark remember. A stroll through the streets and Dylan tried to buy
himself the next book in a series he has been reading but it was out of stock. I
would compare Denmark to our town back home Sorrento, very alternate. We now
thought if we wanted to explore Albany we had better hop aboard the Garrett
train and get moving.
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| Denmark Bakery |
Another 50 km and we are there, now where to stay, so
this time we head to the information centre and Mark gets the most informative
lady who explains everything and places to stay and things to see. We quickly
headed to the Torndirrup National Park and to 'The Gap' and 'The Natural
Bridge' a must if you’re in the area. These are two natural features carved
from ancient granite by the forces of nature. The Gap features a 25 metre sheer
stop to the ocean. They were very impressive.
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| Natural Bridge |
Next were the blowholes, I had
received a text from my dad saying they had gone to these places when they did
their cruise around Australia. The blowholes was a little hole when we got
there but stand it front of it and look into the hole and wait until a big
swell comes and hits the rocks and Wham! A sudden gust blows up through the
hole and only sea mist, so it's like a massive blow dryer blowing your head off
as you look. We all couldn't stop laughing because as it look calm and then
suddenly your hair, face and clothing were getting blown away. We drive back
after seeing all these and went for a drive along Bay View drive, which over
looked Princess Royal Harbor and saw many exquisite yachts.
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| The start of the Wind Farm walk |
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| Albany Wind Farm |
We then headed over
to the Albany wind farm, and along the track was a dugite poisonous snake and
was approx 5 foot long. A local who showed us and knew what it was stopped us.
Glad it was slithering away into the bush and not towards us. The wind
farm was interesting and we climbed the top of he hill to see the long line of
propeller towers. Not all were spinning though, but we were still impressed. Well
we had done all of these tourist sites in half a day and also wanted to go to
the top of Mt. Clarence, which is actually in town.
We ended up having pizza on
the top of Mt. Clarence and hoped to catch the sun going down but just missed
it. It was a fair hike, actually steep, climbing up to the top. It was okay the
pizza was still warm and by this stage it was dark but just so gorgeous with
all the city lights. Back to our camp spot, which I forgot to mention that we
decided to go with a cheaper park as we were only there for one night. We chose
a spot down on the river in this park and we were the only tourists camping the
rest were all permanent residents. We could hear ducks at night on the river.
Straight to bed and I stayed up late typing out this blog, 2 hours longer then
everyone else.
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