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Albany

Just a few km South of Albany is the Torndirrup National Park with a stunning if treacherous coastline

Torndirrup National Park The Natural Bridge	click..click...click....
	'King Waves' on even the most calm days have swept tourists out to sea here.
The Gap	"don't stand there!!!"
that's better!!!
fabulous sea and sky	the Blowholes
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	..now remember the story about Kairen throwing the map out of the car window in Yosemite NP in the US?
...is this Laurie retrieving a map that may have exited from his car window?	he claims that he was just orientating the map with the road!!!!
Stony Hill	Albany from Stony Hill
The old Cheynes Beach Whaling Station has been turned into a museum to the whaling industry.	The skeleton of a pigmy blue whale. The full-size one is half as big again.
These were some of the last victims of the whaling station that closed in 1978
Oil storage tanks that have been cleverly converted into cinemas	A whaling boat
engine from the whaler	the gruesome head saw, for cutting of the whale's head
the fleshing deck where whales were cut up and the blubber torn off using winches	the boilers for rendering down the whale meat and blubber
aboard the whaler	'well, hello sailor'
	'what's down here?'

	we finished the day at the wind farm that powers Albany.
not surprisingly it was windy (and quite cold)
'air head!'	We REALLY enjoyed Albany. A very picturesque town, proud of its history and preserving and presenting it well. Vancouver House was a real indulgence and we were thoroughly spoilt by John and Linda. We even purchased one of Linda's fabulous fruit cakes.

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