Blogs from Esperance, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 3

Arriving in Esperance we settled into our site on a caravan park just out of town and across the road from the sea with a good beach.The town itself is small but has all the amenities required for a short stay.The foreshore and esplanade were under construction and renovation which restricted access to the town beach.The town is also a major exporter of ore and visiting giant cargo ships can bee seen loading while others anchor off the seaway waiting their turn.This is however a major tourist town with an abundance of accommodation ranging from camping to self contained units and hotels.Tourist flock here in the warmer months to soak up the sun and play in any of the many pristine beaches that surround Esperance,whale watching is also a major attraction in season.The Recherche Archipelago is ... read more

We left a hot and dusty Norseman in the morning to arrive at a cold and rainy Esperance in the afternoon. The girls spotted the golden arches with lightening speed and yep...we're lunching at Maccas. I must admit I was looking forward to a flat white with soy! We spent the afternoon feeding the washer and dryer with $1 coins and "enjoying" the 15kt onshore and drizzly rain...awesome. The drizzly weather persisted throughout the next day but we did manage to squeeze in a walk along the esplanade and a delicious brew from Coffee Cat. Our final morning in Esperance saw skies clear and the opportunity to take a spin around the Great Ocean Loop, not quite the VIC version, but 11km of beaches, cliffs and islands with the Southern Ocean as the backdrop is still ... read more

Favored Spots. For the past ten years Little Wharton beach has been one of my favored stopping off points but now since the introduction of a Rotaloo compost toilet it seems I’m not the only one. Mid week in late February and a dull day should mean I have the place to myself but no there is a constant stream of cars mostly those who have come for the fishing which I have been reliably informed is not good. A car pulls up alongside, just a foot too close given the available space. Two women one with a seriously bad bleached hairdo, the other with an unflattering baseball cap and both in shorts that were so obviously designed to be worn by teenagers, but then looks who talking when I don teenage cast offs and not ... read more

Hi Happy readers Yes another day of relaxing travel and so much more to see. The last two days we wet wild and woolley in Albany we managed a beautiful drive around the coast down to the Whaling Station and many other top spots Had a great breakfast in a beautiful converted cottage yesterday then a relaxing time reading and resting whilst the heavens continually opened. Our trip down to Esperance was without incident magnificent scenery in most regions and what a changing scenery we had. From farmland to forestry to even some mining and many many road trains carrrying grain down to Esperance. We are staying here for 2 days before tackling the drive East. So I guess our first stage is now complete From the Top to the Bottom, now across before the upward ... read more

Heading to Esperance mining road trains suddenly changed to grain road trains. The number and frequency of these showed the harvest was in full swing. Over the next couple of days we passed lots of very large grain delivery sites with big queues of road trains. Chatter over the 2-way had changed to how long drivers had to wait in the queue or how slow things were at the delivery sites. We were passed by an over-size load heading to Queensland. The cargo was a donga, obviously quite light but rather large. We overheard a 2-way conversation in which the driver was telling how he had already moved 120 of these units and there were 380 in total for him to move from Ravensthorpe to a mining site in central Queensland. The mind boggles! This prompted ... read more