A slow start. The Brissy family pack up and leave. They are going clockwise so we won’t see them again.
Old town, Albany 
Dogs Head Rock
We take a drive out around the headland, up to Mt Melville. There is a tower and platform so you get a fantastic 360° view of Albany and surrounds. You see places on a flat map, but the coastline around here is so much different.
We then drive out to Frenchmans Bay. There are a couple of lookouts along this stretch, so we do them all on the way back. First to The Gap & Natural Bridge. The Gap is a narrow section of rock where the sea comes roaring in – not quite blow-hole standard but still impressive. Even more interesting is the platform that has been built for the lookout – it extends over the water, and the floor is a metal grill so you can see the ocean swirling beneath your feet. Have we mentioned heights?
Then Natural Bridge, a huge slab of rock forming a, well I guess you’d call it a bridge.
After that, we moved on to the wind farm. We’ve seen a lot of them on the trip, but I think this is the first one where you can walk around, and underneath, the turbines. At first, it was the sound that grabs your interest, a fairly constant whooshing. As we got closer, you could start to differentiate the individual blades, and strangely they each made a different noise. Standing underneath the thing as it turned was amazing. They are really enormous – the blades and the tower. The walk was punctuated with signs about the turbines, and all the technical information you could want, certainly that the farm provides 80% of Albany’s power. We were able to time the rotation of the blades and calculate how fast they were turning at the tips (km/h). In the wind we had, it was about 220 kph.
We have a great night chatting with the Canberra family, the kids love playing together.