Road Trip: Albany
This is the wind farm in Albany. This is the most interesting photo I have of the trip because I am a tool and decided that my camera would be more “interesting” if all the menu items were in Japanese, and accidentally deleted all the photos I took while hiking up Bluff Knoll. They were cool photos - you could see for, like, a hundred kilometres - and hard won because it was frickin’ difficult climbing that mountain. Think of taking the stairs up a 200-storey bulding.
Other unphotographed highlights of the trip included:
the world’s slowest kebab shop in Albany
a cool little maze made out of bushes, between Albany and Walpole
awesome heath plant communities (I have a thing for heath, ok?)
“Fun Chick” - the world’s worst promotional mascot. (It’s a badly drawn chicken with what appears to be armpit stubble, used in fast food restaurants in Albany and Kojinup.)
We also went in this gantry thingo in the trees. ‘Valley of the Giants’ it’s called. The one in Victoria is better.
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wind farms are cool. i love being them, it’s like being in an episode of Beyond 2000; I keep expecting amanda keller to walk out from behind a turbine and talk in her vaguely sexy intellectual tone.
Comment by Tomás Ford — Friday July 11 2008 @ 12:49 pm
Yeah. I didn’t have Amanda Keller fantasies, but I know what you mean. They’re very futuristic. Or, you know, presentistic.
Comment by Mark — Friday July 11 2008 @ 2:25 pm
I find windmills awesome. I think I’m the only one.
Comment by Mish — Friday July 11 2008 @ 7:35 pm
Did you read the above comments? You’re not!
Comment by Mark — Friday July 11 2008 @ 7:42 pm
I did, but I really do find them awesome in the literal sense of the word.
Comment by Mish — Friday July 11 2008 @ 9:01 pm
Each one is 60m tall, with a nacelle that contains an armature the size of a small truck. They can supply up to two thirds of Albany’s power. They are awesome indeed.
Comment by Mark — Saturday July 12 2008 @ 3:48 pm