Albany, rock scrambling and crime busting!

Spent 2 nights in Albany, an old whaling town and the last bit of Aussie soil the Anzacs saw.  Now a busy shipping port for wheat and wood chip. I was surprised it is so hilly, but loved  the beautiful old homes  and buildings.    More gorgeous beaches and views, not sick of them yet. Stayed  at a lovely little caravan park on the river.

Back of our caravan  site

Salmon hole Albany

Because my last mountain climbing expedition wasn't exciting enough (bloody hell!) we decided to walk up Castle Rock to the  granite boulder skywalk at the top. This involved a  2.5km bush walk uphill (gawd help me) followed by a scramble/climb over big boulders to get to the  sky walk platform. Garry  actually videoed me doing this because we knew the kids wouldn't believe it!

View from Granite Skywalk

Garry and I became crime busters when, at the blowhole, we drove up just in time  to see a  man  trying to break into a car. He got scared off by us but not before breaking into some backpackers van. If he got into the car he would have scored 4 handbags left by the ladies travelling in it. They  were very grateful when we told them, with the damage to their window as proof.
Being the quick thinker he is, lol, Garry  snapped a photo of the thief's vehicle as he fled, and we trotted off to the local cop shop to do our  civic  duty. On arrival we met an elderly couple who had been victims at  the same place  just before we arrived.
I was able to describe the thief (under 30, no shirt, muscular, tanned) and offered to look at a line up of similar young men any time they wanted, sadly I was not  taken up on this offer :(.... Geez I  was just trying to help!
 As  Garry was the one that took the photo he had to give the statement, so the policeman told me to  go have a coffee or go shopping while I waited. Not wanting to disobey a police order I did just that!