This morning we went to see the brig, “Amity”. This boat is a copy of the brig which brought Captain Lockyer to Albany in 1826 with about 60 soldiers and convicts to start a colony. The downstairs area was very small, dark and I wouldn’t have like to sail down there.
We then went through the museum which was housed in the governor’s residence. It was a great museum detailing the history of Albany from the aboriginals to Captain Vancouver who charted the coastline in 1781 to The Amity and then to the choice of Perth as capital and not Albany. It also showed what Albany is doing now.
After lunch we went out to Frenchman’s Bay. On one side of this peninsular there were lots of granite
boulders which formed some amazing features called the Gap and Natural Bridge.
Then we went to Frenchman’s Bay which looked lovely.
