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| Fitzgerald National Park |
Hopetoun is a coastal town with 1,400 residents established
in 1900 and is the main gateway to the Fitzgerald National Park. The
Ravensthorpe Nickel Mine and Processing Plant that Jock helped to construct is
about 40kms from Hopetoun employing 450 people.
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| Hopetoun |
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| Hotetoun |
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| Main Street - Hopetoun |
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| Main Street - Hopetoun |
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| Wild Flowers |
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| Christmas Tree |
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| Ducks at the Caravan Park |
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| Kangaroos on the Golf Course |
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| Jock feeding the Magpie |
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| Car and Caravan |
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| Kangaroos outside the Caravan |
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| Kookaburra |
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| Jock and his Magpie |
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| Albany Pageant |
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| Albany Pageant |
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| Pageant |
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| Two People's Bay - Albany |
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| Two People's Bay - Albany |
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| Middleton Beach - Albany |
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Albany predates Perth and
Fremantle by some two years and is the oldest permanently settled town in
Western Australia.The town served as a gateway to the Eastern Goldfields
during the late 19th century and, for many years, it was the colony's only
deep-water port, having a place of eminence on shipping services between
Britain and its Australian colonies. The opening of the Fremantle Inner Harbour in 1897, however, saw its
importance as a port decline, after which the town's industries turned
primarily to agriculture, timber and, later, whaling.
Today the town is a place of
significance as a tourist destination and base from which to explore the
south-west of the state and is well regarded for its natural beauty and
preservation of heritage. The town has an important role in the ANZAC legend, being the last port of call for
troopships departing Australia in the First World War.
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| York St - Albany |
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| York St - Albany |
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| Town Centre |
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| The Gap - Albany |
The
Gap is an impressive rugged granite channel in Torndirrup National Park carved
by the waves of the Great Southern Ocean crashing against the granite coastline
forming a spectacular sheer drop of almost twenty five metres.
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| The Gap |
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| The Gap |
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| The Bridge |
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| Jock at the Gap |
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| Frenchman's Bay |
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| Frenchman's Bay |
