The Great Southwest, on the road again.....

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Yippee!! - On the road again and it feels fantastic, FREEDOM!!

After a pleasent four hour drive from Perth to Albany we arrived late afternoon and checked in to our first hostel for four months.

The hostel was homely and we met some great people that we'll keep in touch with throught this trip.

It's bloody cold down here, apparently there's nothing seperating us from the Antartic so that might explain it.

We were originally planning to spend 3 nights here but after our first night, and realising how much there was to see we bumped it up to 4 nights and could have stayed longer.

After doing very little in the way of physical activity for a while we jumped at every chance to go for a hike or walk and saw some amazing stuff, amongst the fog!!

Frenchman's Bay is a beautiful white sand, turquoise water beach we came across.

It was bloody freezing - as you will see from the phot's just cause we are in Oz doesn't mean we are tanned God's and Goddesses! Our tans have just about dissappeared now and the hats, scarfs and gloves have become our bestest friends again. It is quite nice to get some cold weather though, I love the sunshine but it would be pretty dull if there was no variation.

A visit to Whale World gave us a gruesome insight inbto the whaling industry which only ceased in Australia in 1977. Andrew reverted to 8 year old boy mode on board the whaling vessel running a muck and pretending to captain the ship!

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Photos

Andrew & Fiona
at Frenchman's Bay, Albany.

Rainbow
at Frenchman's Bay, Albany.

Fiona
at Frenchman's Bay, Albany.

Andrew on the rocks
shaken, not stirred.

Andrew the Whale Catcher
at Whale World 'a not so happy place', Albany

Fiona the Deck Hand
n an old whale hunting ship

Andrew the Gallery Boy
on an old whale hunting ship

Fiona calls for back-up
Is there anyone out there?