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Published: February 8th 2010
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Lucky Bay
The action shot.... After our sad goodbyes to all in Williams, we left early on Tuesday, 2nd February and headed east to Wave Rock near Hyden. It was only a three hour drive and by lunch time we had settled ourselves down into a handy little caravan site less than 50 metres from wave rock itself. We only spent one night here seeing as we had arrived by lunchtime; the afternoon was plenty of time to see what we travelled all this way to see. We had wave rock almost all to ourselves which made taking a few photos easier, although getting that surf pose took some doing. (And we dare anyone to try and not pull a surfing pose. It’s impossible.) The views from the top of the rock were amazing, nothing but bush as far as our eyes could see with one or two bushfires smoke plumes on the horizon, blue skies and a nice cool breeze which was refreshing after the dead heat from below. We also saw a few other of the rock formations around the big wave such as the hippo’s yawn which, yes you’ve guessed it a hippo yawning.
Moving on we made the long drive
Sunset over our campsite
Our last night in Cape Le Grand NP down to Esperance and after a quick supermarket stop (and bottle shop drive through stop) we drove the coast road 50km's east of Esperance to the Cape Le Grand National Park where we set up camp for 5 nights.
After finding ourselves a nice little spot in the Lucky Bay campground only 10 metres from the beach itself, our days were spent relaxing by our camper, walking along the beach and watching the many wild kangaroos that wondered around us. They took a huge curiosity in our meals and we had to keep our wits about us otherwise we would have gone hungry. We were also joined by a very large lizard an Ornate Dragon, had a bird take shelter in our camper and we fought of an invasion of mice (more on that later) Never a dull moment for us. We hiked to Thistle cove, the next beach over, one day and found ourselves to be the only people there. We literally had this entire beach to ourselves, and with the white soft sand and crystal clear blue waters we felt like we were in paradise. We also visited all the other beaches in the national park,
Wave Rock
Gemma walking under the 15m wave and climbed Frenchman’s peek which gave fantastic views of the entire coastline.
Our nights in lucky bay campground haven’t been as relaxing and peaceful as daytime, and this is because we have had a little family of mice move in, how sweet of them to set up home in our camper. Only thing was it was incredibly annoying, they were keeping us awake and they kept attacking our food stores. So for the majority of our stay we have been strategically been planning their eviction. We even made a trip back to Esperance for supplies and brought a mousetrap to get rid of them but there were too cleaver for that, they managed to get the food of the trap but not get caught at all. On day three we reached crisis point and at 2am Ste took drastic action, and he devised his own trap involving a chopping board, some strategically placed nuts (not his own) and a saucepan controlled by a piece of string. An hour and a half later we had managed to catch three mice by this way; the fourth wised up to our method of capture and has thus evaded us so far.
But we are patient and his time will come.
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