Rainy Australia

2-24-13 Albany, Australia

Today found us on the South coast of Australia in Albany.  This is a wonderful small town with some very cool architecture and nice examples of the convict style of buildings.  It was a Saturday so much of the town was closed, although the mall did have some stores opening especially for our visit.  We even went into the Kmart and bought some new shorts as “C” is outgrowing some of his stuff.  We also bought a gift for one of the crew who is disembarking in Bali.  “C” got some trashpack kids since they are made here in Australia. 

We also went shopping in the local grocery store and I picked up some Cadbury for Easter, although I am sure there will be no shortage of chocolate on that day.

The fun part of the day was visiting a great craft market where the ship shuttle bus dropped us off.  They had some great vendors with lots of reasonably priced pieces of jewelry as well as some notecards to use as thank you notes on board.  People keep giving “C” things and I feel he needs to be able to write thank you notes and this makes it much easier 

our tour truck

While shopping there, it began to rain and a friend recruited us to go on a tour in a 1950s fire truck.  The back was covered and we did a wonderful hop on hop off style tour of the town.  We saw a cool rock formation that looks like the head of a Labrador retriever.  We also stopped at an overlook that allowed us to view the channel that we had sailed through to the inner harbor where we were docked. 

 

 

 

Brig Amity

Our final stop on the tour was to view the Brig Amity replica.  This is the ship that carried the first settlers to Albany in 1826.  We also saw the old gaol (jail) it is built in the convict style. 

We had a fun day in this quiet town.