Day 62 - Bremer Bay to Albany

Another sunny day, the drive to Albany was a really pretty drive, acres and acres of beautiful green paddocks, some with healthy fat sheep and some with pure black cows.

I tried to book us into one Van Park but booked out - school holidays, so we are in the Big 4 at Emu Point which is 10 minutes out of town, normal Big 4 park with heaps of entertainment for kids. Nice grassy sites which we are enjoying.

Set up then headed to the Whaling Station, 25km drive along the shallow bay then along the jetty for loading grain. Stopped at a Lookout and a lady asked if we were travellers, she told us about a few places to see the Whales, lovely local. Hard trying to get my head around the water ways and small suburbs.

Very windy when we arrived but so worth going to the Station, $30 ea and the whole station is preserved and well displayed, heaps of photo's, films detailing the history from start through to the closure of the Whaling industry 1978 in Albany.

There is a Ship on the shore, the Cheyne IV, which we climbed from top to bottom, during a 26 year period, they killed 16,100 whales - mind blowing when that was just one boat. Also a shed with several skeletons of Whales, blew out minds how big they were.

Getting towards 5 o'clock which is nearly dark here, on the way back to town we called into the Salmon Hole, which was a cute little bay, had hundreds of stairs to the beach....no we didn't go down there. Next stop the Blow Holes, we started to walk down to them and decided we would come back at high tide and wanted to get back to the car before it got too dark.

Sat in the car for 5 minutes and watched the Ocean, we would have seen at least 20 whales - we are definitely going back to get photo's.

Quick top up at the IGA then home for showers and dinner.Læs mere