Here's some pics from the weekend at Albany!

Nice photos! And looks like a great spot

WA's LG. Lilacs has delivered some very impressive PBs this week and suspect there'll be many more. Well done guys and gals (girlspeed's nm especially)

elmo said..
The further away the better I look

At 200mm it still looks good
thanks to Evets for putting it on the map

elmo said..
The further away the better I look

Watching you from the top of the mountain while we were sightseeing the Anzac memorial was quite surreal.

How deep is it where you were sailing?

Looks like an awesome spot!

But with razor sharp barnacle encrusted noxious weed, the water quality bordering on dangerous with the runoff from csbp. Huge sharks still hanging around waiting for the whaling station to re-open, and tiger snakes in all the water access points. And bull-ants, did I mention the bull-ants...

Pepe: Really, or are you just trying to put us off going there?

Humongous crabs and devil fish

From my experience the patchy sand areas to the West of Lilacs near the woolstores are the most populated by Stingrays and cobbler, everytime I head over that way for a squiz I see a couple. Its alot harder for the rays to get into the shallow weedy areas inside the weed bank/ speed run, on a high tide they do venture in there though.

elmo said..
Humongous crabs and devil fish

Yep those too! Beats fearing over the local toothy critters though.

GazMan said..


Got attacked by what appeared to be a stingray (docs opinion) over on the town side of harbour near Amity replica a few seasons ago. Very painful experience!

wow, if those stingrays start attacking , now we're in trouble...
But I feel for you, I stepped on one once, terrible pain; I now have a 12V kettle, a bottle of vinegar and pain killers in the car.

4th photo looks like you racing a sup

choco said..
How deep is it where you were sailing?

The most disconcerting depth wise is approaching the southern sand bank. you can see it's very shallow and don't want to shorten the fin on it, but if you jump off too early, you're in chest deep weed and mud, you come up looking like the monster from the deep. With all that weed wrapped around you and the rig, it's quiet a strain on the arms water starting!

The NM run is about waist to chest where ever I've come off. It's amazing the weed is still so long it's floating on the surface at these depths.

We (Dot and I, Alby and Ratz), stayed at Lilacs cottages, cabin 7 over looks the end of the NM run and the alpha course.


So there's the rigging area directly in front, lots of shade if you want more than one sail rigged. The launching spot is that gap in the foliage, just have to lift the rig over it. At high tide you can launch from the beach, at low tide it can be 100m wade before there's enough depth.
This cabin accommodates 8, a double bedroom downstairs and a double bed upstairs with 2 normal singles and 2 trundles, but you'd need to be good mates upstairs there's not much privacy.

The brown strip on the water in the background is part of the heavy weed bank that makes the very flat NM run.

Stretchy said...
Great photos and looks like an epic spot. Still spewing I didn't head down, didn't think I had a leave pass, then discovered too late that I did...
Does this spot work through Autumn?

Can get good easterlies right through March into April, though tides do often have the final say! Just looked at local tide charts for March and there are many days in the month with high tide between 0.8-0.98m (which is quite high) around the middle of the day. March could b the month for PB records to fall! (One weekend last March was very memorable!)