Day 9: Denmark to Mount Barker via Albany
Today we are going to tick off another bucket list item. We are going to visit The Gap and Natural Bridge just south of Albany. Once again I'm popping in a stock image as I won't be able to get a pic from this angle. We will be going out onto this viewing platform - eek!
First though - we were up early again so did some laundry. In most camps the machines just let you put in whatever coins to the value of the machine. This one was completely prescriptive in terms of the exact coins you had to put in. Also there was no reception to get change at. So I had to rapidly make friends with loads of our campsite neighbours to get change
We then went into Denmark for breakfast
The breakfast was really nice but the place was really busy so it took about 45 minutes from order to arrival.
Next door to the breakfast place was an artists shop selling all stuff from locals. We bought a really nice decorative plate and as the shop lady was wrapping it the artist walked in. She was lovely and told us the piece was inspired by the lichen on the rocks at Greens Pool where we'd been the previous day. And funnily enough she'd been swimming there that day too.
After this we drove to The Gap and Natural Bridge which were on our "must do" list. These were on a peninsula south of Albany.
To say they were breathtaking is an understatement. I took a gazillion photos but I'll just post a couple of each here
First the Natural Bridge
This is a granite rock formation which has been formed by the Southern (Antarctic) Ocean wearing away at the cliff side. The water comes under the cliffs giving the appearance of a bridge
Then the Gap
This is the one with the viewing platform over the water. The platform is 40 metres above the sea which is dramatically crashing into the rocks below in a kind of inlet. Sometimes you'd get 2 waves crashing into each other & it sounded like a gunshot
This is where we were on the map in relation to Albany
We then went to explore the town of Albany. We'd always set Albany as our target to get to and we did it!
We headed from Albany to a one horse town called Mount Barker -mainly because it was on the right road to get us back to Bunbury. However we did discover a little gem called "A Little Bit of Barker" where we went to eat. Very quirky! I like the fact that on the menu the non dairy milks were listed as "funny milks"
We went to our Mount Barker campsite where thanks to a combination of an early kick off and Ol giving me his log in for the app where you can watch EFL games in Oz, I was able to watch Coventry lose to Southampton live!
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Thank you for sharing in such a lovely way 😊 ❤️
Loved the video of the waves crashing! Looking amazing there Liz ❤️ xx