ALBANY, AUSTRALIA

After the bad weather for Bunbury, we were glad to see sun for Albany.  We walked to town, against a brisk wind of 38 knots, but it was sunny.  Irene found a nice outfit in a local store, and then we played bridge.  We were hoping to find someone willing to drive us around, and that happened!

Allison took us to Torndirrup National Park.  She lives near there so knew all the best places to go.  With the strong Westerlies, the sea was raging and very interesting.  They call this the "rainbow coast" because the spray comes up so high that rainbows often appear.  We saw some beautiful ones, and we got wet! 

After going to about 6 lookouts, we drove to a quiet beach near Allison's home.  This is a swimming beach, and very lovely.  The water temperature was about 19 degrees C.  Then we saw her home, with a view over the water.

Allison was determined that we see kangaroos, and she knew just the place to go--the golf course.  There was a mob of them there, so many good photo ops.  She drove us back to the ship, just in time for dinner and the evening shows.  The last one was a man doing mime and shadow art--extremely well done!  Now we have 2 sea days before Adelaide. 

g'day!