Saturday, November 26, 2011

::Perth Day 2: Albany - Walpole::

Good Morning Perth! Time is 8am and temperature is 13 degree.
Although it's only 8am, but we feel that we are late already. Cause the skies had turn bright at 530am. Not wasting time, we check out and start our 2nd day journey!
Albany town on a Monday morning. Still very quiet. Love the peace but somehow this seems to be over-peace already.
We start our road trip in Albany with Mount Clarence. It's a cool freezing morning. (13 degree is freezing for me) .. we hike up the stairs for 10 minutes, reach the look out point of Mt. Clarence. And saw...
Tada! And another few minutes hike up the staircase which is hidden by the bushes.
Tada! Spectacular view! 360 degree panaromic view of Albany which includes - Porongurup Mountains, Albany coastline, Royal Princess Harbour..

Next.. we stop by The Brig Amity.
AU$6 is required for entrance into the ship, which we didn't invest into..
We continue our journey to Albany Wind Farm! ^^
A 300m walk from car park to this gigantic windmill~
Another 100m walk to the first look out point.
And another 100m to the second look out point.. phew~
Next is The Gap and Natural Bridge. This is an easy 300m walk from the carpark :)

The Gap which forms by the waves.
And the Natural Bridge which also forms by the waves. Nice view!
Next is the blowhole.. is the blowhole blowing today? Yep.. it did when we was there ^^
The wind gush and the waves hits the rock. And the hole make a loud sound.. Just like a vessel but way too loud that it freaks us a while. Amazing! ^^
And we left Blowholes with many little friends. LOL.
The Blowholes is our last stop in Albany. We grab lunch at Hungry Jack's before start off our driving trip down to Walpole. Fast food meals is fast and cheap.
The view along the highway. Yea.. I don't deny you will start to get bored having too much of greenies view.
We saw a stop along our way.. Choco Late!~
We went in the lounge.. it is so warming and comfortable inside, unlike the weather outside.
After scroll through the menu, we left. The chocolates and choco drinks is out of our budget. At this moment, how I wish we are filthy rich :(
Then continuing our journey, we stop at The Toffee Factory. And bought some home.
The uncle was too 'friendly' giving us 'April Fool' joke @@
The aunty was nice to give us cider testing as well. :)
Finally after 2 hour drive, we reach our hostel at Walpole.
Lemon tree in front of our room! Exciting.. I never seen lemon tree before although I am very fond of lemons.. The owner let us to have it if we want too.. Nice :)
This room cost us AUD70.50/ night. 10% discount for YHA members. Toilet is sharing based. And there is kitchen available for you to cook.

Here goes our second day in Perth. Full with nature wonders. A very nice and relax trip indeed.

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