Albany - Kinjarling - WA Tourism

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.

25/05/2022

https://youtu.be/ZBTOBkboVcY

Albany and Denmark, Western Australia. Drone footage with Mavic 3.

29/09/2021

Lake Seppings, Albany WA

Photo: Lee Mullen

Lee’s website link in comments for more beautiful images of Albany

26/09/2021

It’s coming into that time of year again ..

18/08/2021

Special places

Albany is one of Western Australia’s oldest European settlements. Cassandra finds some fantastic dining options nestled amongst the historical beauty of the ...

10/08/2021

Albany WA - beautiful by nature

13/06/2021

23/12/2020

Never forget what The Gap and surrounding coastline can do

The Gap is 40-50 metres hight, the viewing platform stands ten metres over the edge. This wave just kept coming up!

01/11/2020

This gorgeous description of Albany was penned in 1903.

There really isn’t much to change ...

In February 1903 the 'WA Record' wrote...

'Surrounded by an amphitheatre of hills, the town of Albany nestles by the side of Mount Clarence and completes a picture of quiet harmonious beauty whose equal is not to be found in the whole of Western Australia.

Hills "all rich with blossomed trees", wrote the paper, "with peeps of lovely coves between; well made roads, whose points embrace all that is attractive scenic beauty, quaint, criss-cross streets, and here and there an old-fashioned residence embowered in stately trees, and one of the most delightful climates imaginable."

Albany is an ideal place for children too, the wide stretch of sand at Middleton Beach where the little ones can paddle all day long in the shallow waters that beat so gently all along the shore of this lovely seaside resort.

It is not a wildly hilarious place and those seeking daily excitement, will never appreciate Albany. But to others to whom the simply pleasures of life appeal, Albany's quiet beauty will take possession of them.'

The town of Albany is WA's oldest colonial settlement (1826). It is situated in the Wagyl Kaip and Southern Noongar region of Noongar booja – country. Noongar people have lived in this part of booja since the Nyittiny – creation times.