This morning we went to Torndirrup National Park and the part I was most wanting to see was closed. The road into The Gap & Natural Bridge was closed due to a big infrastructure upgrade. It was meant to be finished about two months ago but this clearly didn't happen.

So we drove onto Salmon Holes which was a really beautiful beach followed by Misery Beach which wasn’t miserable at all.


We did a short walk around Stony Hill which has 360 degree views of the surrounding area. During both World Wars there was concern the Port of Albany could be of interest to the enemy so a Naval Observation and Signal Post was established on top of the hill and was disguised as a huge granite boulder.


Leaving the National Park we visited the wind farm. It was great to see the windmills right up close. There are 18 of them, 65m high and provide 80% of Albany's power needs. The concrete foundations go 16m deep to hold them in place and an earth rod goes down another 90m to reach underground water so it can handle lightning strikes. At the slowest rotating speed, the blade tips are doing 130m per hour. This is with just a gentle breeze of 7km per hour.