I encountered these lovely little painted bowls during my Easter weekend in Albany at the Emu Point Easter Carnival, and I thought it was quite funny, and very Albany... where I hadn't been for a generation up until Friday (True story).
Sadly, I didn't get all of the bowls because I was too busy chatting away...
And I would note, some of these were painted on the wrong bias, so that will result in a fine.
First up, what could be a lorikeet on an old Henselite bowl... I have little care for birds that haven't been deep fried and coated in spices:
One for Albany's storied history with whales, which pre-dates the establishment of the Swan River Colony (1829), and Albany was the location of the last operational whaling station in the southern hemisphere, and indeed the English-speaking world, with the Cheyne Beach Whaling Station operating until 1978.
Alf Stewart would call this one a Flamin' Galah:
And the other side of the bowl... funnily enough, I did see a blue tongued lizard when I went on a walk up the Desert Mounted Corps Memorial at Mt Clarence on Sunday morning:
And the last two, touching on Albany's link to the ANZAC story:
If you know your history of Australia in wartime and the link to Albany, the reason the AIF and the NZEF settled on Albany (Population 4,000 at the time) to send the troops to Europe was because it was the most protected cove in Australia, and as it happened King George Sound was the last part of the Australian mainland some 30,000 ANZACs saw before they set sail for Egypt and on to Gallipoli, where some 8,000 of them never returned.
For reference, this is King George Sound... now try and find that photo from 1914 with 36 ships sitting in the water.
Albany also has a verifiable claim to being the first location of a Dawn Service in Australia, but that's just me rambling.
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