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Albany, Western Australia - Field of Light, a Memorial to our ANZAC soldiers

This was it.  We were scared stiff - I know I was - but keyed up and eager to be on our way.  We thought we would tear right through the Turks and keep going to Constantinople.

Suddenly all hell broke loose; heavy shelling and shrapnel fire commenced. The ships that were protecting our troops returned fire.  Bullets were thumping into us is the rowing boat.  Met were hit and killed all around me.

These spheres of light are linked by 153,000 metres of optic fibre, radiating out from each of the 36 centres.  Fifty volunteers spent ten days letting out the cables and lights.  Bands of colour change through the field of lights.

Parking was hard to find at this feature which has been visited by so many people since its inception. 

On arrival at the base of the walk, helpful young ladies set our phones to play the audio description as we walk.  There are numbers along the edge of the driveway to coincide the broadcast to the features passed. 

This broadcast can be replayed from the Field of Light  website at any time.  Several stories of individual servicemen and women are told. 

See our previous visits to the National ANZAC Centre and Princess Royal Fortress Museum and ANZAC Lookout

A closer look at the Sea Dragon painted on the Silos at the wharf.  Read more about this painting and the Sea Dragons it representshere