a day in Albany

Correction: our cottage is not unchanged. Rather, the original cottage is a clear part of the current structure.

There is a two-room cottage made up of bedroom and other room. The "other" room has -- perhaps had originally -- a fireplace, the room may have been living / kitchen / anything else. There was (I believe) a verandah front and back.

The front verandah is still there, with a view past the Entertainment Centre and across the harbour. We're on Frederick St, btw. #26. The back verandah is now kitchen, dining room, bathroom. With a second bedroom added on the side.

All walls look the same from inside. Well lined, nicely painted. The older walls are more solid, brick or stone. There is an online reference to "an 1800s cottage", that would be the older part. I suspect it was all thoroughly restored, relatively recently.

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We have two full days in Albany. Day one, we tested the start of the 4wd track. Learnt enough that we will bypass a lot of the start of the track.

Today we explore the town. Sorry, the city.

Deb has decided the we should walk along Middleton Beach to Emu point. It's a beautiful day for a beach walk: cool but breezy. After a few km I ask Deb, Is this walk to replay childhood memories, or is it because she has always wished to do the walk ? It's quite a long walk.

Nearly 5km along the beach and we finally reach the Emu Point cafe. Just in time, a drizzly rain starts. No worries, we sit inside with an iced coffee, a pot of tea, a shared white chocolate brownie -- a "blondie". Delicious :-)

We walk back. The wind is howling in off the sea. The drizzle is light, intermittent. We start by walking along a sealed track, sheltered from the wind. The flies also appreciate the shelter.

By a strage coincidence it is also nearly 5km to walk back... We feel that we have done our exercise and can relax for the rest of the day. After, that is, walking a bit extra to find a geocache.

We find one cache on the walk out. We fail to find the one at the end of our walk. But we do find a few more, as we drive round town.

First, though, we have lunch. At the Three Anchors cafe at Middleton Beach, the start & end point for our beach walk. Shared fish & chips. Nice.

Our afternoon driving starts down by the docks. We check the giant seahorse painting on the silos, impressive. An unexpected cache by the water's edge, an unfound cache near a sculptural windvane on the mole protecting the marina. Couldn't find that cache but we're glad to have found the sculpture.

Then around Mt Clarence. Up to the top, wander round, find a cache. Admire the views over Frenchmans Bay and the rubbish tip. We also find a cache in a small park called something like Cooija, the Friendly Place. (Or something.) Enormous granite rocks, a bit of lawn, seats, bush. The sort of place which we would never find if not for geocaching.

Enough ! We drive home and collapse with tea & coffee and... doing as little as possible. I sleep for a bit. It's a bit chilly, Deb gets the gas fire lit.

Dinner is caneloni that we had picked up at IGA the other day. Very nice.

An evening spent relaxing. I may be early to bed...

====    Dr Nick Lethbridge  /  Consulting Dexitroboper
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