Here's some pics from the weekend at Albany!

and some more...
Pepe then pics of lilacs
from a far

Nice photos! And looks like a great spot

Where did you guys camp, and was Steve Pell out as well?

WA's LG. Lilacs has delivered some very impressive PBs this week and suspect there'll be many more. Well done guys and gals (girlspeed's nm especially)

The further away the better I look

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elmo said..
The further away the better I look

At 200mm it still looks good
thanks to Evets for putting it on the map

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mineral1 said..
Where did you guys camp, and was Steve Pell out as well?

We camped at panorama caravan park further around frenchies bay.
Evets sailed both days but I didn't actually bump in to him.

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elmo said..
The further away the better I look

Watching you from the top of the mountain while we were sightseeing the Anzac memorial was quite surreal.

Super pics thanks it sure looks good hey great spot and very scenic

How deep is it where you were sailing?

Some fantastic speeds from all and really impressed by the the girls speeds!

Looks like an awesome spot!

I would guess it's no deeper than head high
In the deepest points with most of the lagoon
Waist deep.

But with razor sharp barnacle encrusted noxious weed, the water quality bordering on dangerous with the runoff from csbp. Huge sharks still hanging around waiting for the whaling station to re-open, and tiger snakes in all the water access points. And bull-ants, did I mention the bull-ants...

I see you have discovered the drag strip....good times! Enjoy!

Pepe: Really, or are you just trying to put us off going there?

There are definitely razor shells in there but you guys with ya big fins and countless laps should sort em out! You Forgot the sting rays and Cobbler too....

Humongous crabs and devil fish

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Blackbeard said...
There are definitely razor shells in there but you guys with ya big fins and countless laps should sort em out! You Forgot the sting rays and Cobbler too....

Got attacked by what appeared to be a stingray (docs opinion) over on the town side of harbour near Amity replica a few seasons ago. Very painful experience! Sailed near Lilacs on Sunday, one of the strongest easterlies we've had of late. Most appear to be using quite short fins (apart from this silly bugger!) which is obviously better in the more shallow areas.

From my experience the patchy sand areas to the West of Lilacs near the woolstores are the most populated by Stingrays and cobbler, everytime I head over that way for a squiz I see a couple. Its alot harder for the rays to get into the shallow weedy areas inside the weed bank/ speed run, on a high tide they do venture in there though.

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elmo said..
Humongous crabs and devil fish

Yep those too! Beats fearing over the local toothy critters though.

Sorry I meant North of Lilacs!

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GazMan said..


Got attacked by what appeared to be a stingray (docs opinion) over on the town side of harbour near Amity replica a few seasons ago. Very painful experience!

wow, if those stingrays start attacking , now we're in trouble...
But I feel for you, I stepped on one once, terrible pain; I now have a 12V kettle, a bottle of vinegar and pain killers in the car.

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Blackbeard said...
From my experience the patchy sand areas to the West of Lilacs near the woolstores are the most populated by Stingrays and cobbler, everytime I head over that way for a squiz I see a couple. Its alot harder for the rays to get into the shallow weedy areas inside the weed bank/ speed run, on a high tide they do venture in there though.

elmo said..
Humongous crabs and devil fish

Yep those too! Beats fearing over the local toothy critters though.

I sail in the ocean too (out off Middleton beach last Saturday, was a hoot!) and some types will always find something to fear no matter where they are! (Isn't life itself risky?)

4th photo looks like you racing a sup

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loftsofwind said..
4th photo looks like you racing a sup

If you look close you can see Strop's layed down sail.

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choco said..
How deep is it where you were sailing?

The most disconcerting depth wise is approaching the southern sand bank. you can see it's very shallow and don't want to shorten the fin on it, but if you jump off too early, you're in chest deep weed and mud, you come up looking like the monster from the deep. With all that weed wrapped around you and the rig, it's quiet a strain on the arms water starting!

The NM run is about waist to chest where ever I've come off. It's amazing the weed is still so long it's floating on the surface at these depths.

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>>> Most appear to be using quite short fins (apart from this silly bugger!) which is obviously better in the more shallow areas.

Yep, anything from 16cm to 22cm, they're not only better for getting going in the shallows, but lets you get into the dense weed where it's really flat. You can go through those spots with floating weed and foam on the surface and hardly feel it.

But they are harder to sail in chop.

We (Dot and I, Alby and Ratz), stayed at Lilacs cottages, cabin 7 over looks the end of the NM run and the alpha course.


So there's the rigging area directly in front, lots of shade if you want more than one sail rigged. The launching spot is that gap in the foliage, just have to lift the rig over it. At high tide you can launch from the beach, at low tide it can be 100m wade before there's enough depth.
This cabin accommodates 8, a double bedroom downstairs and a double bed upstairs with 2 normal singles and 2 trundles, but you'd need to be good mates upstairs there's not much privacy.

The brown strip on the water in the background is part of the heavy weed bank that makes the very flat NM run.

Great photos and looks like an epic spot. Still spewing I didn't head down, didn't think I had a leave pass, then discovered too late that I did...
Does this spot work through Autumn?

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Stretchy said...
Great photos and looks like an epic spot. Still spewing I didn't head down, didn't think I had a leave pass, then discovered too late that I did...
Does this spot work through Autumn?

Can get good easterlies right through March into April, though tides do often have the final say! Just looked at local tide charts for March and there are many days in the month with high tide between 0.8-0.98m (which is quite high) around the middle of the day. March could b the month for PB records to fall! (One weekend last March was very memorable!)