To all good things comes an end and we leave Cosy Corner only after sharing coffee with snijkoek and speculaas with two Dutch guys. One of them keeps playing Dutch songs on his iPod and drives the English speaking people mad.
We say goodbye and go towards Albany where our first stop is the Gap and Natural bridge.
This is an impressive play between rock and water.
We decide to both have a look here.
Then we drive to Salmon pools and have a nice view over the Albany bay.
It seems that in February and March large schools of Australian salmon frequent these waters. Once upon a time this was a thriving industry but it seems that there is a preference for the more pink Canadian salmon which was the end of the salmon industry on the Australian south coast. Still a nice view.
Then Marjo had enough of walking stairs (the Salmon pools was 5 flights of stairs after having walked the whole Gap and Natural Bridge area).
So we decided to find our next bush campsite around Albany and planned for Betty’s beach.
And when we saw the turquoise waters ahead, we got blinkers on and ended up at East Bay instead. That worked out brilliantly as this minuscule campsite with only 4 camp spots had just one spare spot and that prime position was ours for the week (ok, for the observant people, we actually stayed only 5 nights, but who is counting). Right on the edge of the beach.
With a bedroom view to kill for.
The location is stunning and we had the beach most of the time for ourselves.
Also at dusk we had some impressive displays.
Marjo and Nossi had the time of their lives, exploring the area on long walks.
And in the evening we played a game of Kubb (see for an explanation Amamoor and more) with our ‘neighbours’.
While we stay here we get a change of neighbours from the couple from Albany trialling their modified caravan, to the young couple with kids that left at around midnight after their 4 year old daughter had been crying all evening, the couple with a big 4WD truck that celebrated their anniversary in quiet and the older Dutch couple that didn’t know English very well. All friendly and nice to talk to. We, meanwhile, enjoyed ourselves with kiting (yay), mosaic (beautiful), reading, guitar, a daily ‘bath’ in the ocean and bush shower, collecting shells, reading and many walks.
A fabulous stay at a magnificent spot where even fish smile in the afterlife.
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