Kaya from Albany (Wagyl Kaip in Noongar language). This is the view from Marine Drive Lookout overlooking King George Sound. Our car was serviced at the morning so we had a late start.

We return to Torndirrup National Park to Stony Hill – the highest point of the park.

A short but scenic walk leads to a …. stony hill.

A major cold front and weather change is on the way.

Banksia

Admiring the Sticky Tailflower that only grows on the coast between Walpole and Cape Arid.

Stony Hill walk

Rain band ahead of the westerly change

View back to Albany

A return visit to the spectacular Jimmy Newells harbour

Cut-leaf Banksia (Banksia praemorsa)

Peak Head from the Blowholes

Agonis baxteri

Pink fairy orchid (Caladenia sp.) opening

Carnaby’s cockatoos neat the coast

After the short drive to Frenchman’s Bay, we encountered a flock of Carnaby’s.

Male

A pair

This girl was ripping the bark from the tree looking for larvae.

A fine feathered gentleman

Nothing like a good squawk.

Inquisitive Red wattle bird.

Black swans on the edge of Shoal Bay

Limeburners Distillery at Albany – still there.

Granite island off the coast near the Albany Wind Farm

Clematis vine

Coastal beauty

The coastal walk at Albany Wind Farm

We played them some Black Sabbath music – they are massive heavy metal fans.

King George Sound, Vancouver Peninsula and Albany Port from Mount Clarence

The Desert Mounted Corps Memorial commemorates Australian and New Zealand soldiers who died in service or were killed in action in Egypt, Palestine and Syria during World War I. The plaque reads: This statue is a copy of one originally forming part of a memorial which was erected at Port Said and unveiled on 23 November 1932 by the Rt. Hon. William Morris Hughes, K.C., M.P. It was irreparably damaged during the Suez Crisis in 1956. The masonary was salvaged and brought to Australia for re-erection on this site which, for many troops who sailed from King George Sound in 1914, was their last glimpse of Australian soil. Unveiled by the Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Menzies K.T., C.H., Q.C., M.P. Prime Minister of Australia on 11 October 1964

Stirling Street in Albany – a popular restaurant and cafe precinct.