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Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Esperance October 12th 2016

I am writing this at stupid o'clock in the morning on Thursday sitting in the warm sun as I look at the beautiful view of the mainbeachat Esperance – well if I lean my head to the right and up a bit so I can see over the toilet block and dump point. Hahahaha. We got in pretty late on the first night so not much to report. We did put the awning up on the tent for the first time though. Plenty of swearing and cursing and putting the wrong pole in then needing to back track, but we go there in the end! Monday was spent looking at some of the sights in Esperance. We did a loop drive that went to all of the main beaches and lookouts. It was pretty special really. ... read more
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Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Esperance July 12th 2016

We spent 2 days in Esperance and drove around by the lovely Twilight Bay and all the lovely beaches. The Pink Lake wasn't pink but I guess it's seasonal. The weather was shocking with severe gale force winds and bursts of heavy rain. We also drove out to visit Cap Le Grand national park and even in the miserable weather it was lovely but a long walk was not very appealing. Plenty of emu and birds around and the occasional chilly looking roo. We went out to Thistle Bay to look at Whistling Rock which has an indigenous dream time story to go with it. The rock wasn't whistling that day. We were staying at the Esperance YHA and I feel obliged as part of this blog to give a review. The staff were friendly and ... read more
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Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Esperance July 10th 2016

So today we finished crossing the Nullabor-hooray! We woke up at the motel and we were glad to have not camped as the wind had been gale force all night and we would almost certainly have been dealing with damaged and broken equipment. So as we checked out there were some big rigs getting fuel, signs of things to come on the road with more crazy passing in the wind and rain. We traveled the longest bit of straight road in Australia and I admit it did get boring. Since our taste in music has very limited overlap we have a few audiobooks to keep the peace. We stopped for fuel at the Balladonia roadhouse which was the location of Skylab crashing to Earth in the 70s. There is a bit on the roof and some ... read more
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Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Esperance September 29th 2015

Thursday 24th September We leave Esperance and after an hour or so pull into a rest area for a coffee. We get talking to another couple going in the opposite direction and they suggest we visit Hopetoun on the coast. It sounds good to us and we've plenty of time so we re route down to the coast. It only takes about another hour and we arrive. Hopetoun's a small resort with a nice little beach and a few shops. We register at a camp site and then go off into nearby Fitzgerald River NP. They've done a lot of work in the park making it more accessible. We take the main road in a soon stop at Barrens Lookout for great views over the coast line. It's rugged with sandy beaches. There are wild flowers ... read more
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Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Esperance September 24th 2015

Sadly no whales were around Fowlers Bay yesterday morning when I treated myself to a 2.5 hour cruise in the hope of sighting some. And while it was a lovely thing to do and most enjoyable, the weather was absolutely perfect, I found the experience very tame after the absolutely spectacular day I had the day before on my 4x4 tour previously described. And while some of the photos I took will probably make it into my “abstract photography” album, really there was nothing taken that could rival the previous day’s pics. One good thing came out of it though – note to my Marine Rescue friends – I did not get seasick or show any tendency to do so, even though the swell was noticeable outside the heads. So full steam ahead I should imagine ... read more
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Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Esperance September 23rd 2015

Thursday 17th September We arrive at the camper van depot around 9.30 and have it is checked over before we swap it for our Hi Top van. We have driven over 8,500 Km. We get away soon after 10.15. A fairly easy change over. Our first stop along the road is Northam. At Tourist Information we get given a Heritage walking trail with a booklet prepared by local school children. We soon see some wonderful looking buildings and the school children's booklet provides some excellent background to them. On finishing we treat ourselves to a couple of beef pies and sit in the park to enjoy them. A nice warm sunny day. On the road again and running alongside us all the way is a 750 diameter pipe taking water from Perth to Kalgoorlie. We pull ... read more
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3 Cunderdin Museum
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Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Esperance April 20th 2015

Got to Esperance on 20/4/15 and stayed at Breitte, Aaron, Thomas and Oliver's awesome new house. Was great to catch up with these Champs and we has a great time. The day we got there we went for a drive and checked out Twilight Cove. OMG amazing beautiful! Weather was perfect for the first 3 days we were there. Next day we borrowed Aaron's kayak and spent the day at Twilight Cove. Paddled out to the rock with both girls one at a time and explored all the other rock islands out there. Wednesday we drove along the beach to Cape Le Grand. Checked out Hellfire Bay and Lucky Bay. Wow! The water is an amazing colour I've never seen before. The next couple of days the weather was plop so checked out town and took ... read more
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Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Esperance December 29th 2014

Taking your pants to Paradise. 29th December 2014 Sometimes when we blog its just hard to get the right title and we realised a long time ago that it’s all about the title, then there are other times when we are writing and good titles just keep appearing out of the pages, like the other day when we wrote Chicken tracks, I think we ended up with 5 options to choose from. Funny really we had a pretty big day yesterday 29/12/2014 and I woke this morning with a title on my mind, even before I had struck a blow on the computer keys. As you are aware we have been having our Christmas break in Cape Arid National Park, Western Australia, we were invited down here by Andy and Karen, two people who we have ... read more
Taking your Pants to Paradise
Taking your Pants to Paradise
Taking your Pants to Paradise

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Esperance December 23rd 2014

We woke to a fairly decent morning on a campsite in Esperance, at least it wasn’t raining. Even though we don’t like caravan parks, our main goal was to charge all our batteries, that is the two deep cycle batteries that power the freezer in our truck and also the two deep cycle batteries in Roobie as we need plenty of battery power whilst we are camped at Cape Arid. We also needed to top the water tanks up on Roobie, which is 90 litres for showers and general use hot water and 90 litres for drinking. As usual I was up early and strangely enough Caroline put in an early appearance at 6.00 am, our plan today was to get our last few chores done in Esperance and get away as soon as possible as ... read more
The Clock Struck Ten
The Clock Struck Ten
The Clock  Struck Ten

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Esperance October 21st 2014

Hi travel followers. Here is our latest travel update from Esperance Western Australia. On leaving Albany we headed for Ravensthorpe which was just basically a stop off point for a quick diversion inland to Hyden where the renowned "Wave Rock" is located. This was another item on the bucket list that is now ticked off and I must say it was well worth the 195km trip through the never ending wheat fields (Western Australia's grain belt). Even though the weather was atrocious, it managed to clear enough for us to walk and see the Wave Rock, the Hippo's Yawn and Mulka's Cave (excellent rock art) with an abundance of wild flowers thrown in. We continuously marvel at what mother nature can do with solid rock over a lot of time. From Ravensthorpe we then headed to ... read more
A storm building over the endless wheat fields.
Lyn in the Hippo's Yawn.
Frenchmans Peak in Cape Le Grand National Park




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