http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Esperance/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Oceania , Australia , Western Australia , Esperance en-us Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:25:04 +0000 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:25:04 +0000 Day 233 Hopetoun to Cape le Grand National Park East of EsperanceWersquod been told so many good things about this little caravan park here at Hopetoun so it seems a shame for us not to stay longer and enjoy the beautiful setting. Itrsquos nestled in the scrub behind a fabulous tranquil beach but as it is we have limited time here because wersquove spent too long partying in Perth the http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Esperance/blog-461323.html Plaanid on testi selleks et neid muuta. Vibolla ei olegi mtet plaane teha sest nagunii lheb midagi teisiti.Oleme ikka Esperancersquos oma caravan parkis. Prantsuse sbrad Perthist tegid tee peal avarii ja auto lks tiesti mahakandmisele. Juht Laurianne si roolis vileiba kallis vileib oli 8 dollarit maitses vga hsti juust kukkus maha ja ta vaatas korraks teelt krvale ning oligi http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Esperance/blog-460766.html Luban kll suure suuga blogitada aga nd on vhemalt kuu aega viimasest postitusest. Ma olen juba Perthist kaugel. Austraalia mttes kll mitte kigest u 700km lbitud ja siinsete mtmete kohaselt on see vike kahepevane puhkus. Praeguseks olen judnud Albanysse ja istun Emu Pointrsquoi nimelises klas Caravan parkis telgi ees. Krval on kginurk kus istub umbes 25 pidu pidavat vanurit. O http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Esperance/blog-459880.html We left Norseman yesterday morning driving through bush until finally the land opened out to wheat and sheep country. The few little towns were by railway lines where there were big silos for loading the wheat onto trains.We finally got to Port Augusta and drove around the waterfront two big ships were in port a huge silo at the wharf and a big jetty out into the bay. After driving around to http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Esperance/blog-407733.html Our four days at Kalgoorlie were very busy we did a 200 km outback pub crawl that took us to some unusual pubs as the pictures show. The circuit took us north towards Laverton and back through Coolgardie mostly on red dirt roads. The Kalgoorlie Super Pit is a huuuge open cut gold mine that operates 247. They extracts gold at the rate of 16 ounces per ton of rock. I tried to count the number of http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Esperance/blog-396982.html Just a quick one I'm afraid. Drove up to the Stirling Range and climbed Mount Toolbrunup what a viewNext day made the long journey to Esperance which is the coastal gateway to the goldfields.Decided to stay here two nights today I went to Cape le Grand National Park pictures below. Saw my first kangaroo. Might have been a wallaby though.Going to Kalgoorlie Boulder tomorrow. http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Esperance/blog-389572.html We have now left the outback and are back on the South coast in Esperance. It was a relatively short drive of 4 hours. We have driven over 2000kms already Although it is a bit dull at times the roads are very quiet no chance of getting stuck in a traffic jam around here and we do have the ipod. The itrip which lets us play the ipod through the radio is one of the most useful things we brought http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Esperance/blog-387126.html Travelling across the Nullarbor wasnrsquot much to write home about. We stopped to look at the start of the bight and then again closer to the WA border. A lot of the diversions off the main highway to the cliffs of the Great Australian Bight were closed due to cliff erosion. We witnessed this erosion first hand as we found a dirt track to the cliffs to have our last lunch before the WA quar http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Esperance/blog-386922.html Hoje segunda feira eh feriado por aqui entao nao se tem muito o que fazer em uma cidade pequena. Cedo pela manha fomos dar uma volta pelo centro e ver se achavamos algum mercado aberto para comprarmos nosso cafe da manha. Acabamos por passar em uma panificadora que parecia ser o point do local. Pegamos nossos suprimentos e sentamos a beira da baia de Esperance para tomar o cafe...Assim que ter http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Esperance/blog-380789.html helloyesterday i finally saw a living kangeroo up to now the only ones we have seen have been dead on the side of the road anyway we were having a swim as it was boiling yesterday and 2 came out of the bushes they were having a good nosey at us then later they were in the camping area presumably looking for food. bless they are so cute.so we drove to esperence after albany its a lovely place w http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Esperance/blog-367540.html Excerpted from my book Our Summer in Australia New Zealand at Amazon.comJohn Starr the owner of Telegraph Farm is a man of great imagination and energy. He uses a portion of his farm less suitable for crops or grazing to raise flowers for export especially to the Japanese market. He plants perennials providing thereby a renewable product. The Japanese inspect every delivery and if even one http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Esperance/blog-362143.html We stayed for one night at Crokers Caravan Park in Esperance and then went into town the next morning to refuel and visit the library so Annelies and Thomas could research their home school projects on ecosystems Thomas on Tall Forests and Annelies on Deserts while Mark added the Wave Rock and Kalgoorlie blog entries. In his haste he forgot to include a photo of Thomas with crutches and a co http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Esperance/blog-340836.html We travelled to Esperance where it was still windy and cold but at least the sun was shining. Tuesday was spent doing some school work and catching up on washing etcWednesday we decided to take a drive out to Le Grande National Park to see some of WA most beautiful beaches and we were not disappointed. Le Grande beach was amazing and had a great camping area on the beach but Hellfire Bay was a fa http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Esperance/blog-338268.html Decided to set up at Cosy Corner West. The Camps 4 book says you can camp there but there is a no camping sign but we think it referred to the November to April season very confusing. It was on the foreshore behind the grass and trees. Fairly sheltered but on the beach the waves were crashing and thumping all day and night. Walked up the steps to see the view over King George Sound very http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Esperance/blog-324918.html Hey allAm not in Esperance at all ... but Norseman is not in the list which to be honest ... is hardly surprisingNorseman is a small twobit town sorry guys which is at the start of the Eyre Highway that imposing stretch of road which goes across the Nullabor. Having driven from Albany this morning some 700 kms away the plan is to rest here for the night and then start the drive acro http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Esperance/blog-316727.html The wait is finally over Apologies itrsquos taken so long for us to get in touch but doing nothing really takes it out of youOur trip down from Isa was pretty good all in all it took us about 10 days with stop overs in Nelson Bay Hunter Valley and Orange to catch up with Allison Geoff and little Henry who was showing us just how well he can get around on his ownA stint visiting family http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Esperance/blog-294296.html HelloWe left Esperance to head north to Norseman and there we started the long travel across the Eyre Highway or the Nullarbor.HalloVanuit Esperance vertrokken naar Norseman om daar de lange doorsteek van west naar oost te maken over de Eyre snelweg gelijk aan de Nullarbor. http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Esperance/blog-272335.html Nach fast 3000 km durchs Nirgendwo endlich in Esperance angekommen die erste groessere KLeinstadtDie Sonne lacht und ein Strand schoener als der andere so schoen dass Nadja und ich erst einmal ein paar Tage dort geblieben sind und uns von langer Autofahrt erholt haben. Wie kann ein Morgen besser beginnenals mit dem Fahrrad frueh um 8 Uhr zu einem der zahlreichen Straende zu fahren und in de http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Esperance/blog-271136.html Nullabor Plains The first break on the journey across the Nullabor Plains was at the Nullabor Roadhouse just past the Head of the Bight seasonally closed until June. Strange to see a whale statue out in the desert but at one stage in history this land was home to the largest inland sea. As we were packing up we were fortunate to see the Royal Flying Doctors take off from behind the Motel.Th http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Esperance/blog-269467.html Regular readers of our blogs will remember that we asked for ideas for a name for our van. Sheila and Matilda being the most popular but cliched nominations we finally settled on Tilly short for the more common Matilda.Now we're going to start a new competition. The redback spider that lived in our gas cupboard until we evicted her well killed her seems to have left us a present of some babie http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/Esperance/blog-243280.html