Discovery Bay Video
Discovery Bay near Albany is a truly unique attraction.
It is home to Australia’s last operating Whaling Station, a stunning Botanic Garden of Australian plants and a display offering visitors a close up experience with friendly Australian Wildlife.
You can choose to explore either our whaling history, or the gardens and wildlife, or the entire site to make a real day of it! Pack a picnic or BBQ lunch and spend a day discovering lots you didn’t know about the Great Southern region.
Situated at the tip of the Flinders Peninsula, the heritage-listed “Whale World” site has undergone dramatic change since 2004. Now maximising its location, Discovery Bay is a showcase of amazing regional bio-diversity, yet still remains true to the original whaling display.
Historic Whaling Station guided tours are included with admission, while informative displays are provided to enjoy the gardens and wildlife at your own pace.
Albany Whaling Station
A Yr6 NEPSODE student - Jack P - provides information about Albany whaling station in Frenchman Bay Western Australia.
FPV Flying around Frenchman's bay and old whaling station Albany
Flying my Bixler 2 with a APM based Pixhawk autopilot
19th April 2014
Safety note - the road and carpark we are using to launch are extremely quiet rural roads and I had spotters to ensure we weren't at risk from traffic or putting any others at risk.
Australian Wildlife - Koala feeding time
Lunch time at Discovery Bay, Albany WA!
Frenchman Bay, Albany WA
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Things to see in Albany - Drive to the Whaling Station
Albany Whaling Station from Frenchman's Bay Rd and back. The Charisma Brothers on the radio.
Soundtrack Holiday - The Charisma Brothers
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Frenchmans Bay Albany Western Australia
Frenchmans Bay Albany Western Australia
TOP 50 ALBANY Attractions (Things to Do & See)
Best places to visit in Albany - Australia, all things to do or tourist attractions list in Albany, city at the southern tip of Western Australia. The most popular tourist attractions in Albany is Middleton Beach, Little Beach, Albany Wind Farm, Emu Point, The Gap and Natural Bridge and National Anzac Centre.
Others beautiful places in Albany is Torndirrup National Park, The Blow Holes, Old Farm - Strawberry Hill, Princess Royal Fortress, Goode Beach, Bald Head Walk Trail, Mt Melville Lookout, Padre White Lookout, King George Sound, Ellen Cove Boardwalk, Frenchman Bay, Muttonbird Beach and Shelter Island, Kalgan River, Convoy Lookout, West Cape Howe National Park, Jimmy Newells Harbour, Waterfall Beach, Misery Beach, Stony Hill & Peak Head, Betty's Beach, Lake Seppings, Quaranup-Point Possession Trail, Albany Waterfront Marina, Gull Rock National Park, Sharp Point, Rotary Lookout Albany, Cable Beach, Ledge Beach and Point King Lighthouse.
Besides that, others popular things to do in Albany is visiting Desert Mounted Corps Memorial, Albany's Historic Whaling Station, Replica of the Brig Amity, The Albany Convict Gaol & Museum, Dog Rock, Great Southern Distilling Company, Albany Bird Park and Marron Farm, Albany Heritage Park, Chainsaw Sculpture Drive, Oranje Tractor Wine, Torbay Glass Studio, The Church of Saint John the Evangelist, Eyre Park, Albany Farmers Market etc.
All about top 50 Albany tourist attractions, what to do, where to go or things to do list in Albany is in this video. Enjoy your holiday :)
Albany Frenchman Bay
Frenchman Bay, Albany, WA.
This video was uploaded from an Android phone.
Albany Western Australia
Albany is on the southern tip of Western Australia.It was a whaling station when it was built but that turned into a museum and now the town is becoming a tourist destination thanks to its location and old buildings and new restaurants
This is ALBANY WA - the Brig Amity and beyond - 4k drone footage
a view from drone near the Brig Amity, Anzac Peace Park, Albany Waterfront Marina , Albany Entertainment Center and Albany Port in Albany Western Australia. 4k footage from DJi Phantom 4 Pro drone
The Sandpatch - Albany, Western Australia
The Sandpatch beach sits on Albany's southern side looking out to the Southern Ocean. It is home to Albany's Windfarm power project and from the boardwalk you get vistas look east to Sharp Point and West to Cosy Corner beach and West Cape Howe. Dolphin frequent the area as well as the occasional winter whale and also the occasional surfer
Drone Footage - #THEGREATSOUTHERNWA - Ledge Beach, Albany, Western Australia
The first in a series of videos highlighting the Great Southern region of Western Australia.I actually didn't have enough footage to produce a decent video, so made do with what I had. Heres hoping to better weather conditions for filming.
Music by Essáy & Stumbleine - Rhiannon (Owsey Remix)
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Flight#4 Aquacopter Yi Cam Frenchman's Bay Albany
My fourth proper flight with the Aquacopter and Xiaomi Yi Cam cut short with the GPS mode going into a tizz while I yawed just a little to face me so I could bring the quad in for catching it. I was only 20’ or less up, it crashed into a bush which broke the short fall rather nicely, no damage except a broken prop’ but that meant not getting to test my new set of 4S batteries at another location just up the road.
Little bit of jello probably from the props being in view more as I had the camera up a little to offset more forward flight. Waterproof case is mounted directly to a GoPro type quick mount with 3M tape only.
Footage is raw, no stabilization etc cut, editing out some flight looking into the sun.
Music is from the Album Merlin by Medwyn Goodall
FPV range tests over the whaling station in Albany
Flying my Bixler 2 with a APM based Pixhawk autopilot testing the telemetry range out to around 1.5km over Frenchman's bay and the old whaling station.
19th April 2014
Safety note - the road and carpark we are using to launch are extremely quiet rural roads and I had spotters to ensure we weren't at risk from traffic or putting any others at risk.
Bald Head trail run, Albany
I went out to see the surface and parking. This is a short (phone camera) video of the first km of the Bald Head trail in the south west of Australia. 13 km out and back, 743m elevation gain. Some fantastic single trail, rocky outcrops, boardwalks (not so nice to run on) and a fair amount of hands and feet scramble. I went back the day after this, started out pre-dawn, completed a lap in just under 2 hours, then did another social lap with friends, out and backs between pace groups, hill repeats etc making for a 28km (1487m e/change) morning.
Wreck of the Elvie
Wreck of the Elvie
Scuppered in sand, like the upturned ribcage
Of a whale, awash at high tide, her rivets
Pocked with concretions, the Elvie's weathered
Framework, hewn out of Jarrah, seems
Half petrified: a fossil from the days
Of whaling. Her bow still points to sea
With something akin to yearning, as though
Her deep-grained ghost might sail out, laden
With the oil of whales, and not return.
No sailor died at her wrecking, in the southeast gale
That swept her neglected hulk to shore. It was not
Water that rushed above her gunwale, but sand,
Claiming her for land. No voice is raised to mourn,
Save the sighing of a whale, and her bow-post
Is rooted to her keel: the tree within
Kedging her to ground.
Poem by Giles Watson, 2011. The wreck of the Elvie lies in sand at the north end of Vancouver Beach, Frenchman Bay. In the early twentieth century, Frenchman Bay had a Norwegian whaling station, and the Elvie, a 30 x 4.5 metre flat-bottomed wooden lighter, was used to transport barrels of whale oil from the station to ships moored in the bay. She was constructed out of Jarrah, one of the more common eucalypts in Western Australia, with extremely durable timber. She was abandoned at her moorings when the whalers left in 1917, and washed ashore in 1921. The level of the sand is subject to the vicissitudes of the sea, so that more of the wreck is visible at some times than at others.