What time is it there?!

We had originally thought that we might get some snorkelling done around Albany, but we're discovering that the Southern Ocean is just too cold for our tastes! But before heading north for warmer waters we had a look to see what Albany has to offer tourists......

The people who run the local YHA are very friendly and gave us loads of information and marked it all on a map for us (in colour-coded highlighter pens!). Since we had now only allowed ourselves a day we tried to see as much as we could, but there was plenty more. Everyone in the tourist information places around here is so enthusiastic that they seem quite genuinely disappointed if you are only going to be in town for a day!

The town seems very proud of Dog Rock. It's a rock.... that looks like a dog. Well, actually it looks like a dog's head. That is if you look at the right angle and notice the collar they've painted on to help you!

There are also quite a lot of nice looking beaches around here. However, due to the combination of cool weather, clouds and windy conditions (there's a wind farm nearby) we just looked on from a safe distance until the weather improved and we found some nice white sand!

We didn't have time to go into Whale World on the edge of town. This is an old whale 'processing' site, and apparently has lots of info about whale conservation these days, but from what we read on the board outside it looked more like a tour around all the places where they used to cut the whales up. Nice!