Day 40 – 22nd February 2018 – Bremer Bay to Torbay Inlet near Albany

We decided to camp at Torbay Inlet which is about 28km West of Albany.  Prounounced ‘Al-bany’ like your mate ‘Al’.  Col was corrected by a local as he keeps saying ‘All-bany’ as in ‘All of your mates’.  It looks like a beautiful spot.  It is a free camp and is nestled in amongst the trees.  You can walk to the inlet as well as to the beach.  People seem to be fishing for Black Brim here, someone caught one  that was 37cm long yesterday, so a good size.  There is an Eco toilet here which is clean and no smell.  There isn’t any water here, so you need to be self-sufficient.

We hadn’t long arrived and were still unpacking and setting up camp when we were approached by two young guys, one from Denmark and one from Germany, who are in Australia backpacking from the West Coast to the East Coast.  They were driving around scouting for a good camp spot when they got themselves bogged in a deep sandy patch.  They were looking for assistance to get their car out, as it was belly deep in sand by that point.  They were driving a Suburu Forrester and it got bogged about 500m from our camp.  As the car was packed full of camping stuff (and Col doesn’t have a back seat at the moment), the guys stood on the back bumper bar and held onto the roof racks while Col drove slowly to the spot where they were bogged.  The car was well and truly not going anywhere in a hurry!

Col hooked up his winch to their car and was able to quickly get them free of the sand and back on the road again.  They kindly brought over a Thank you gift for Col to show their appreciation.  It was very cute.  We got video footage of the recovery and will post it once Col has done his fancy edit.  Col was able to disguise his excitement at getting to use his winch.  He acted very professional, but I know he was jumping with joy on the inside!