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Albany Slideshow
Top Hotels in Albany
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Comfort Inn Albany
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Ace Motor Inn Albany
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Country Manor Inn Albany
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Beach House at Bayside Albany
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Norfolk Sands/Bay Merchants Albany
1 review
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Foreshore Apartments Albany
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Albany
Travel Blogs from Albany, Australia
On The Road Again
This is a top pick! ... "I am an FBI Agent!!" Point Break We've been on the road for a week now, and have arrived in sunny Albany. Looking at the map of Australia we've not done a very good job in terms of distance travelled (maybe an eighth of the way to Melbourne) ...
Sand Dunes and Sea Air
This is a top pick! ... the spring (September/October) during peak wildflower season. So what changes have I noticed from 20 years ago? Well, Australia definitely feels more cosmopolitan than it did. The grocery aisles of most grocery stores have a fairly diverse ethnic ...
Australia (South West Tour) Pemberton - Albany
This is a top pick! ... necessities and departing for Albany. A couple of hours later we pulled into the tourist information centre in Albany, which unlike many services in Australia was still open past 3pm on a Saturday afternoon. Maps and advice taken on board we made our ...
Shannon NP to Albany via Walpole&Denmark - Day 194
This is a top pick! ... planets. Mars, Venus and Mercury. Never seen Mercury before with the naked eye. Another first for me! I've complained about Australia in previous blog entries saying it's cold and expensive but the south-west is completely awesome. I wasn't prepared ...
Walpole to Albany
This is a top pick! ... Edmund Lockyer and a party of soldiers and convicts from Sydney, came ashore in Princess Royal Harbour to establish a penal outpost. Albany was officially proclaimed a city on 1 July 1998 and now has a population of over 30,000. Boasting one of the ...
Albany
This is a top pick! I was up early to see a wonderful sunrise over the coastline of Albany whilst all the rest were asleep. There were flocks of pelicans casually swimming along, midning their own business. Eventually Tom awoke, donned his aussie flag shorts and decided to ...
Walpole to Albany
This is a top pick! ... back at ground level we take a walk through the forest of giant trees. Then it's time to continue on down to Albany and we head out to Wignalls and Montgomeries Hill wineries for some free wine tasting. Tony becomes the designated driver and escorts us ...
First of MANY Washboard roads!
This is a top pick! ... head, especially with the collar they painted around the bottom of it. First on the route was the windmill farm; half of albany's power is supplied by the nine or ten gigantic windmills just outside of town (and there was definately no shortage wind in ...
I (heart) Albany
This is a top pick! ... -postcard coastal inlet not unlike the soothing expanse of Lake Te Anau, you'd have yourself a little place called Albany - South Australia's first European settlement and world class in terms of coastal scenery. I spent twenty minutes yesterday striding ...
Giant trees and the most amazing beach!
This is a top pick! We got up in the morning and tackled the cold outdoor showers as our hair was starting to get a little greasy. Needless to say the shower sucked but we were clean again and happy once we got back into dry clothes. Then with little to do we were off ...
The Saga Tour
This is a top pick! ... , small town (but the largest in the southwest) and stay in OK hostel Wednesday 20th October 2004 From Albany, we go to a former whaling station - Australia stopped whaling in 1978, and whilst now converted to a museum, was pretty horrific - I know ...
"tree climbing - extreme style...!"
This is a top pick! ... of the empty hostel by 10am this morning. We had a comparatively long drive of 400kms to do to an old whale fishing town called Albany, with a few 'small tree climbs thrown in along the way! When I say small, I am of course being sarcastic; the first, ...
Big Big Trees
... probably call us Tony Tony and Helen Helen. The trees were huge. Many had been damaged by huge fires that swept South West Australia, especially in 1937. The fires usually damage the inside of the tree because the heart wood is softer, and the tops of ...
A whale of a day
... lots of plants and views to pass the time. We then went to The Whale Museum. This was the last working Whale station in Australia and only closed down in 1978. It was a fascinating combination of free tour with a young but good guide: great exhibits: ...
South of Perth
... he (Burt) would get on, only had one problem which was we ran out of fuel, Oh no. Once we had our night down in Albany we set off up the west coast calling at valley of giants( big trees), Glouester tree (61 meters high), Augusta town, Magaret River ...
Fremantle to Albany
... der Straße :) 4. Mai - surfing day. Wir sind zum Mutton Bird Beach gefahren, zwischen "unsrem" Shelley Beach und Albany. Ein weiter Sandstrand mit kleiner vorgelagerter Felsinsel. Zum Lernen sind dort prima Bedingungen, und wenn man weiter westlich ins ...
Albany
... to be far from the risk areas further east. Gail and I had decided long before the bushfires and floods here that Australia wasn't for us as a potential emigrant destination. These dreadful events certainly compound our view. On to the town of Busselton ...
Having a whale of a time...
... main stop on the West coast we had decided to visit Albany down in the Southwest which is known as one of the best places in Australia to view whales. It took us several hours to drive down from Perth but we had a great place to stay when we arrived. ...
Albany – Stunning cliff drops, jagged rocks
... of great photo opportunities, and for only $10 a head it’s not a bad deal. We finally arrive in Albany, the largest township between Perth and Adelaide running along the southern coast. With its stunning coast line and white sand beaches you ...
Albany
... at the site of the once operational Cheynes Beach Whaling Company's whaling station. It was the last operating whaling station in Australia. On November 21st, 1978, the whale chasers returned to the town jetty for the last time after 26 years of ...
Albany
After leaving Wave Rock on Monday morning, we drove to Albany... we gor there about 4pm (ish) and stayed at 'Happy Days' Caravan Park - the lady who owns the place was extremely helpful and we set up camp for the night. Not much to put in this entry as ...
Mehr als Fastfood und Autoteile
... 365 Tage im Jahr voll mit Menschen .... hier trafen wir auf eine Handvoll Australier, was allerdings daran lag, dass Australia Day (ein Feiertag) war, sonst waere hier wahrscheinlich keine Menschenseele gewesen ... Ich genoss das Wasser, den ...
Albany and Denmark
We left the caravan park and headed for Albany Town.... We visited loads of places today; The Gap, The Natrual Bridge, The Blowholes.... We event went up Mt Melville and went to the 360 digree viewing tower - excellent views of the town and sea! ...
Windy Albany
... had planned to go whale watching in Albany but one look at the size of the waves heading into the harbour and I decided to give it a miss. Albany is one of the first places in WA to be colonised so has a very European feel, I don't think we saw it at ...
Esperance to Albany
... little tired of sitting in our car. I ended up having a very long and expletive filled rant about the lack of signposts in Australia (which in the cold light of day, I do stand by - signposts here seem to be precious, rationed commodity, whereas I ...
Albany and Denmark
... was in high spirits. Tommy and I decided to go on another weekend trip, this one would take us to Albany and Denmark at the very south west of Australia, about a 4 to 5 hour trip with our rental car. Between Perth and Albany is nothing really worth ...
Awesome Albany!
When we came to Albany we went right to the Visitors Centre. We then went out to Whale World. An old whaling station. We had lunch on a BBQ there. We had a tour that ran over everything. We got to see the pump and the boiler room work. It sounded like an ...
Road trippin' to Albany...
Last weekend in Australia. It called for a 3 day long celebration. We did some site seeing, but mainly drank. A good time was had by all. ...