Two months ago, we were in Albany, WA...

It's amazing how time has flown! And I still haven't written all those posts that I planned to.

Albany has a number of historical buildings and sites; we visited a few. 

A plaque honoring the centenary of the founding of Albany...

This plaque in the next photo is all about communication; it's on the site of the first telegraph pole that brought communication from the eastern states to WA.

 That plaque is in front of this lovely old building which is now part of a university.

A view of the same building taken from farther down the street...

Behind that historical building is a more modern building with an interesting roofline...

The street scene from across the street from the uni building...

And a A frame board outside a cafe...

In a previous post on Albany, I mentioned that George Vancouver 'has left his name' on a few places in this area, and the town is no longer exception.

So we went looking for this place...despite the sign, they were actually closed for the day! 🤔

And a nearby cafe had George's name on it too! 

Here's another lovely old building we saw...

And this one too!

I have a little 'game' with one of my nieces; if either one of us sees a 'big' anything, ( Aussies have a lot of things/tourist attractions such as Big Pineapple, Big Banana, Big Sheep, BigPrawn, Big RockingHorse etc etc)  we take a photo and send it to the other. So when I saw the following item outside a shop in Albany, I just had to get DH to take a photo...

I loved this artwork on a building...

Another street view...

Walking around the town builds up an appetite so we stopped at a cafe that looked very popular with locals. 

My cheese and chicken topper baked potato and salad was delish...

And DH loved that pie 😊

There is one more post I've planned to write about our visit to Albany. It will feature a particular exhibition at the Museum.