Week #41 – ANZAC Albany “Two Up”

ANZAC Albany.  What a weekend.

I moved to Albany exactly one year ago.  This is a fantastic place.  It’s a great community, there is amazing scenery and boundless opportunity.  But this weekend has just been awesome – and it was the people, locals and visitors alike, who made it so.

100 years ago over 30,000 Anzacs, along with more than 7000 horses, boarded navy ships in King George Sound and headed for the battlefields of WW1.  Albany was the site of their last hurrah.  It has been a weekend of celebration and commemoration and it was fantastic to participate – there is a feeling of quiet pride and respect for the small part we played in their sacrifice.

There was much to photograph this weekend.  The troop march down York Street, the bustling Mess Hall on Stirling Terrace, the art projections onto historic buildings.  However I would like to share a few pictures from a “two up” session held at the Stirling Club in Albany.  A few locals and RSL members kicked off this game which, traditionally, is played on ANZAC Day in pubs and clubs throughout Australia, in part to mark a shared experience with Diggers through the ages.