27/06/2022
‘Amazing’ is a much over-used word.
‘Amazing Albany’ is an understatement as well as being underwhelming. The area is breathtaking, and extraordinary, ‘amazing’ doesn’t cut it.
It will always be the Rainbow Coast to us. The name was changed to try and disguise the fact it rains sometimes in Albany. To trick visitors into believing a town in this location is as dry and hot as the desert. Or so they said. It was an odd decision.
It was more likely to do with the rainbow symbol having other meanings, but obviously this was never stated or written anywhere. I don’t want that to be true, but either way ‘The Rainbow Coast’ has stuck for us in ways ‘Amazing Albany’ never has.
I don’t know why ‘it rains’ sometimes would be an issue. It’s only weather. People aren’t that silly. Of course it rains, that’s why it’s green, and there are less days in the year to fry like so many other towns do.
But there are whales and walks, forty nine pristine beaches and seven national parks, temperate rainforest and two rivers, mountains, and Albany is WA’s first European settlement as well as being home to indigenous populations for tens of thousand of years.
And Albany was the last sight Anzacs had of home as they left for WW1.
There’s nowhere like Albany-Kinjarling.
