Albany

Here we are in Albany which is quite a big town but no Aldi.  I have been looking forward to having my Aldi fix.  I think the last one we visited was in Rockingham.  But on the other hand, we can play bridge - there is quite a big club here and they play three times a week.

Several views of the town from Mount Melville.

Princess Royal Harbour.

The Anzac Memorial at Mt Clarence.  Albany is where the Anzac battalions departed from Australia in 1914.

The Desert Mounted Corps Memorial.  It is a 9m mounted Australian soldier helping a wounded NZ soldier.  The memorial was original erected in Port Said in Egypt in 1932.  It was damaged during the Suez crisis in 1956 in anti-British protests.  The memorial was copied and put on the original mounted base on Mt Clarence in 1964.  Another copy stands in Canberra on Anzac Parade as the Mounted Memorial..

The clock tower which is part of the University of Western Australia.

The Albany Entertainment Centre.

A hotel.

This lovely building houses a cafe where we had morning tea.

The Town Hall.

The Brig Amity replica which stands outside the Museum of the Great Southern Region.  The ship arrived in Western Australia in 1826 bringing the first settlers to Albany two years before any Perth settlement

The Museum was having an interesting exhibition of Torres Strait ceremonial masks.

An unexpected pleasure and an invitation to a social activity occurred while we were camped in the Albany Bridge Club car park.  People came to a Rostrum meeting held on the premises weekly and they invited us to join them.  It made a welcome change from an evening in the motor home on our lonesome.  It was entertaining and quite fun.  Almost makes me want to join Rostrum on our return home.