Road Tour to Albany

At the end of October we took a long-weekend road trip down to the south coast of WA. We left early Saturday morning and drove 4 hours south down the Albany Hwy, passing by the Telstra car rally on the way.
The seascape on the south coast was rockier and more mountainous than in Perth; it reminded us of the east coast in Canada. The wind was unrelenting! Greg has been filming our excursions, so I've got the camera. The first pic is of Greg at the top of Mount Clarence, where an ANZAC memorial overlooks King George Sound, marking the spot where the first ships left Australia, sending troops and horses for the First World War.

We then drove over to Torndirrup National Park, where the Southern Ocean has sculpted a Natural Bridge in the coastal granites and formed The Gap, where the waves rush in and out with tremendous ferocity. The cool thing about this area is that geologists have been able to match up these rock formations with those in Antarctica, and can see how Gondwana would have looked!


At least someone has gotten on to using the wild wind that seems to be constantly blowing off the ocean; we walked around this little wind farm just outside of Albany. There were about 12 wind generators. Greg says I need to come with him to the wind farm just north of the town of Shelburne in the Huron Peninsula in Ontario, where there are more than 50! (That will be for another trip, another time...)