Albany, Western Australia

[GolliwoggMusic]

Golliwogg is considering visiting Albany on his World Tour, and is looking for new fans in the area.

[thegowerboy]

This brings back lovely memories of a great holiday .We miss the people and their kindness the sea and the sand. One day, if we are lucky we will return to A lbany.

[MuShRoOm340]

That Picture at 2:03 looks like its taken from my house :) lol

[andrespereyda]

i LIKE the music. it made the place look mysterious and peaceful, not a den of foolish din. i grew up and live in LAS VEGAS, nevada, usa, which is 35 degrees north latitude, and 115 degrees west longitude. i typed in the OPPOSITE in google maps, and Albany, australia is the closest! i may move out there one day :) i love opposites

[snoopshomes]

Great photos but the music reminds me of a sad WWII movie.

[R00RAL]

Fantastic Video, I live in Albany & really quite enjoyed watching this ! Well done :)

[MrDANIELDMARTINRIOS]

great clean power through a wind farm!

[Thrillcekr]

Beautiful town. Looks like the kind of place where you'd want to raise kids.

[ArtAliveOnline]

I'm no longer in QLD, moved to Tas, much better than QLD, but still miss my home: Albany

[beetz1979]

Love Albany, People that havent seen this place are missing out

[resistivity08]

I grew up in albany, miss the place, so beautiful.

[CayetanoSanz]

albany rooocks!

[kermit30au]

This is my home now. Love it. Scuba dive here alot.

[chevronsymes]

Man I love Albany.... I used to live there awesome people, awesome place...

[adamski895RS]

in my opinion perth is better, but albany is still a beutiful place!

[Uber2DaMax]

Born and bread in ALBANY W.A.!

GO ALBANY!

pEACe.

[bandito71]

i remember doing beachies all weekend. down past cosies and then to middleton beach. over and over and over again.

[bubb3ly]

i live in albany.. little grove. haha not the greatest place tu be but its home

[Uber2DaMax]

Hey i used to live in little grove to! on gordon street!

[bubb3ly]

haha i live on gordon street weird ay

[LOUD1FEARED1]

This is awesome, makes me realize that there is something very special about albany, i never thought i would say that... but the place has heart still, perth is cold and heartless.. there is beauty here, only its just hard to find, In Albs theres beauty all around,

It would be a shame to see Ablany lose its country feel...

[ArtAliveOnline]

i used to live in ALBANY my REAL home town.......now i live in scabby Queensland!!!....i used to live in LITTLE GROVE ALBANY and it was i nice place!! thanks for putting this on here

[Weetbix05]

i've been there years ago but stayed in mount barker at some friends house. i loved that time over there!!! had the best burger at the "cafe delight"

[XeLmOxCoOkieX]

i live in albany and have my whole life.....

ALBANY ROCKS!!!

[sugarplumat]

Great Video effort

Terrible Music

Amp it up with something more befitting the city it the music makes it sound like the place operates in slow motion

[tuskfish]

Albany does tend to operate in slow motion though..... too many conservatives and retiree's. Cheers and thanks for the advice.

[flameskane]

if you live in albany im looking for someone

[R00RAL]

@tuskfish Have to agree unfortunately, I am beside myself with how & what they are doing to this "city"

[andytrans]

I've lived here for just over a year and love it. The foreshore is a desolate wasteland - I can't wait to see it developed. You can't preserve a microcosm of history - the town has to grow with the times and it needs to offer something to our kids. The natural beauty here is outstanding.

[kevina252]

Ive lived here since I was 2yrs old,I love it,have always loved it & I think I always will. Although it wasnt until I was in my twenties that I realy learned to appreciate it.

[XeLmOxCoOkieX]

yes lockie leonard was filmed in Albany

[kewlben123]

dude i used to live here on lockyar avenue... not how i remeber it

[ErebusBenighted]

Yeah it's one thing to retain historical features but it's another to slow down or try to hault development for the sake of them. It's good we have a council that's not afraid to step forward with pride instead of trying to freeze time. And about the car parking area, that could get a little messy...

[POPPAVALIUMANDROPOV]

They all say its noisey and dosent belong in town but Albany was built off the back of the Railways it has a right to be there

[LynneCarol2008]

I used to live in Albany up until June 2006, we left to come to Qld because of a business venture. Wish we had never left this beautiful city, perhaps one day we will return. Heard recently via a friend that the lovely Esplanade Hotel was demolished.....to replace it with another hotel, so what was the point in demolishing a legacy left by Paul Terry, talk about burying him and his memory after all he did for the place.

[R00RAL]

@LynneCarol2008 I believe the new owner wanted more stories to make it a more profitable business venture & attract more people, the council & then the bank soon put a stop to that.. so demolished to this day it stays.

[manpig45]

i used to live here for 6 of the best years of my life, 4 when i was 6-10 and then i came back in my teens, 15-17. i only now see how pretty it is. i'm in melbourne out in the burbs. if only i could have that beauty back in my life. Tristian

[nathan2488]

this is my home this is where my heart is i have been away from there for 8 years and i have neva look at peatures cuz i cry i cant come back but i wil lonli have 1 home and my heart my soul and every thing preaches is there I LOVE U ALBANY <33 xoxo pam smith

[fanningfan4ever]

That's so sad I hope u will return 1 day & your dreams will come true, I feel the same way as you, my heart & soul belongs to somewhere else as to where I'm now, Albany looks like a beautiful place.

[Krikey2]

I e-mail a friend from Albany who oozes with appreciationusing the term "Amazing and awesome Albany on her e-mails. Not hard to work out why. A pom who dreams of life down under for over 25 years

[gasgasLex]

Albany certainly is the place to live but enjoy the foreshore views before our town council stuffs it up with some monstrosity and miss management.

[tuskfish]

You ought to check out what the foreshore looked like in the 1920s through to 1950s. It was industrial, messy and cluttered with tine sheds / shacks, etc. The irony is that the foreshore development taking place today - is really replacing some of that clutter (e.g. the bridge over the railway line, etc).

[ErebusBenighted]

Well as a young 22yo local who has at least 60yrs left in the city of Albany I think it's a good thing and I'm all for it. As opposed to people who only have >20 years left who want it stopped. People my age need to raise a family there and all the oldies wanna do is walk around and look at things the way they remember it. I think get over it and let it grow so we can get sunday trading. And anyway ...the forshore isn't exactly picturesque. It's a dark, dull view that a dead cow would enhance.

[tuskfish]

Hey - I'm with you! As a 42yo business professional (& almost local), I want to see development take place in Albany to move the city into the 21st Century. When complete the Entertainment center will be too small anyway, there wont be enough room for parking, and there'll be a lot of issues with industrial traffic to the port. It's a shame all development in Albany couldn't have been thought out better planned or thought out with a future vision rather than cutting corners.

[R00RAL]

@tuskfish AGREE

[R00RAL]

@ErebusBenighted what are your thoughts now 3 years later, are you still living in Albany?

[ErebusBenighted]

@R00RAL I still have the same view, but I left. I've been living in Perth since July 2009. I've stumbled upon a lucrative work opportunity that wouldn't have arisen in Albany. I haven't visited since Christmas 2009 either. That's how easy it is to forget about a place that's so hesitant to move forward.