After finding a Woolworths back in Albany, purchasing more supplies and having a freshen up in the toilets we cooked our breakfast bacon butties in the car park and planned our first sight.
On the map, just below Albany was a peninsular with some interesting land marks on; The Gap & Natural Bridge and the Blowholes. We decided to check these out first before heading west along the coast to Denmark.
What I may not have mentioned previously is that the weather, so far, had been pretty wet and windy. What we didn’t realise until we left the town was quite how windy it had been and still was in fact. As we entered Torndirrup National Park we began to see the devastation that had been wreaked upon the trees; pretty much every tree had torn limbs, snapped out branches and in some cases had been blown over completely. We began to realise we had been pretty lucky the night before, being parked under trees as we had been.
As we turned down the road to The Gap & Natural Bridge (we didn’t realise this until afterwards as we thought we were on our way to see the Blowholes) the wind began to get stronger and the rain, heavier. We soon realised it would not be safe to continue driving the camper van as the closer we got, the worse the weather got and we didn’t want to risk it getting blown over:
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