Hopetown and Albany

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.

Hopetoun

Hotetoun

Main Street - Hopetoun

Main Street - Hopetoun

Wild Flowers

Christmas Tree

Ducks at the Caravan Park

Kangaroos on the Golf Course

Jock feeding the Magpie

Car and Caravan

Kangaroos outside the Caravan

Kookaburra

Jock and his Magpie

Albany Pageant

Albany Pageant

Pageant

Two People's Bay - Albany

Two People's Bay - Albany

Middleton Beach - Albany

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.

York St - Albany

York St - Albany

Town Centre

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. 

The Gap

The Gap

The Bridge

Jock at the Gap

Frenchman's Bay

Frenchman's Bay