Albany (again)

On my third trip to Albany we did many things I had intended on doing but either ran out of time or got rained out of. We stopped along our drive to do a really cool cave tour where we saw some beautiful underground structures. It was incredible to see tree roots push through thick granite to find water below. The cave tour as stunning and fun. Next we went to Augusta to look out over the ocean before heading east. 

We did a tall tree walk in Walpole and it was so cool. We walked on a metal walkway among the tops of 40 meter gum trees. They were beautiful and tall and swayed a bit in the breeze. I didn’t love looking down through the grate at the ground 40 meters below me but it was a really cool stop. We walked and saw lots of red winged fairy wrens and bandicoots along our walk which was fun as well. 

After a full day of driving we made it to Albany just before dark and got fish and chips before relaxing for the evening. 

The next morning we went to the whaling museum in Albany. It was brutal and unpleasant, but interesting. The whaling industry in Albany didn’t end until 1979, which is way later than I assumed. I think of it as an 1800s endeavor, not a 1970s. It was an interesting museum with lots of info. We went for a short walk, but dad got scared off by the flies and we decided to retire to the house and enjoy hanging out and making dinner before we had another long-ish (5 hour) drive the next day to Esperance.