Friday 05/02/21 Helen’s History and Heritage Hike

We had a lovely dinner last night at The Earl of Spencer Hotel, a very quirky traditional British pub with a lot of history, being established in 1884 although the building was nearly 20 years older than that. I of course loved the building and all the old furniture etc. in it. Can I say that it was actually cold enough for the hotel to have a fire going in the fireplace? Anyway this morning after a brief stop in the main street of Albany and a visit to a timber gallery we drove to some more beautiful beaches and scenery around Nanarup Beach. Unfortunately the weather was closing in and a few showers had come our way. We returned to Albany and bid a sad farewell to Pat and Allan who were driving to Perth, via Kantanning, spending a couple of nights in a very interesting looking building, an old mill that has been converted into a hip hotel. I spent the afternoon doing a heritage walk around the main streets of Albany. The town is full of old buildings having been established in 1827 (before Perth on the Swan River) and is very English looking. I thoroughly enjoyed the self-guided walk and part of it took me to the Museum of WA which was situated in “The Residency” building, built in the 1850s. There were the normal museum displays but one of the galleries had a magnificent display of entries and prize winners of the Australian Geographic Photography awards. Luckily I was inside for a while here because outside it was raining and had just about stopped by the time I was ready to continue my walk.



Helen and cream!!











Hair cut time


Private joke, ask Pat


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