Albany Historic Whaling Station

 Wednesday 16 September - 181767

Today we visited Albany Historic Whaling Station - the last whaling station to operate in Australia. This is a heritage listed site with a lot of information about whales and the whaling industry. There is a restored whale chaser ship that we were able to thoroughly explore, as well as the processing factory that has been renovated. I was surprised to learn that this had been a tourist attraction while it was operational. It was also interesting to learn that several of the whaling captains became involved in whale conservation, one even joined Greenpeace. 

Discovery Bay     Albany Historic Whaling Station

We also visited the adjoins Regional Wildflower Garden and had a tour of local wildflowers with the head gardener.    Regional Wildflower Garden

Last up with visited pretty Frenchman Bay and looked at King George Sound from a different perspective.

Frenchman Bay