Ledge Beach and Boiler Beach or Bay Albany

1. Head East on Grey St go 28m

2.At the roundabout take the first exit onto Aberdeen St go 450m

3. Slight right into Middleton Rd go 900m

4. At the roundabout take the first exit onto Cambell Rd go

210m

5. At the roundabout continue stright to stay on Cambell Rd go 850m

6. At the roundabout take the 3rd exit onto Angrove Rd go 600m

7. At the roundabout take the first exit onto Collingwood Rd go1.7 km

8. Turn left onto Lower King Rd go 200m

9. Turn right onto Ulster Rd.go 58m

10. Continue onto Lower King Rd go 7.3 km

11. Continue onto Nanarup Rd go 4.3 km

12. Turn right onto Gull Rock Rd go 6 km to

So why Boiler Bay or Beach?

Just off shore you will see a old boiler from a shp wrecked there in 1936 she was the Tug Awhina. In 1936 the Awhina was sold for £50 as scrap metal. She was alongside the town jetty at Albany being stripped when she sank in about 14 ft of water. The engines had been dismantled and water entered through the propeller shaft hole.
They sent a diver down and he plugged the leak on the Awhina then she was pumped out by the Bonthorpe, another steam tug. After being put on a mooring and the remaining salvaged parts taken off, the tug was towed by the Bonthorpe to what is now Boiler Baybay just west of Ledge Point and inshore from Gull Rock. Then on the 19 April 1936 she was beached and set on fire. The boiler and parts of the hull can still be seen to this day.

Looking across Ledgr Beach to Boiler Beach at the far end and Michaelmas Island in King George Sound.

Fishing.

Herring, Whiteing, Skippy, rock species, Leatherjackets, Silver Bream, Squid, Salmon and Small Shark are caught here.

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