Tuesday 6th March 2012

Had a nice sleep in at last this morning....was great to not have to get up and pack up and drive ..


I got stuck into the washing and changing the sheets etc...John..did the setting up of camp...lovely warm day expected to reach around 33 degrees .. But I don't seem to mind the heat over here as much...and it helps being on the coast... The wind has settle this morning just a nice breeze now...


After lunch we decided to go and have a drive around and get to know the area... This is one great place ... I could live here... It's really nice... We checked out the shopping centre and it's got everything here we need...


Heaps and heaps of restaurants... And pubs etc...


We then went for a drive up the Great Ocean Drive... OMG what beautiful scenery.... The beaches are just awesome... The water is aqua colour... crystal clear.... And the sand is snow- white like talcum powder...the coast line is just amazing..

Esperance lies along the southern coast of Western Australia, 721km from Perth and is part of Australia's Golden Outback. It is only small but so beautiful,it  is known as the 'Bay of Isles'. With its wide sandy beaches, scenic coastlines and the panorama of offshore islands of the Recherche Archipelago are all part of its charm.

Esperance retains much of the laid back quality of life that country people enjoyed in the 1950s but  was brought right up to the minute in the 1970s when part of the Space Programme of the United States of America landed in the region. That unique piece of world history can now be seen alongside old farming implements in the Esperance Museum.

Many of the places and features surrounding Esperance are named after French navigators. 

In 1792, D'Entrecasteaux used Esperance Bay for shelter during a massive storm, naming the town after his vessel. The first settlers drove stock overland from Northam, northeast of Perth, in 1863. The town grew with the development of the Overland Telegraph in 1876 and boomed as a gateway town for provisions for miners in Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie in the 1890s gold rush. It was not until the 1950s that the Esperance Downs Research Station was set up just north of town, that the town really began to progress. 


 Today, Esperance survives on wheat, sheep and cattle farming and also tourism, fishing and forestry.


We are definitely going to go back to the beaches and spend some time there..

We only booked here till Friday but we have decided we may stay a couple of weeks....

When we got back to the park... The wind was up again... So I would say this will be a daily thing every afternoon... It settles down once the sun starts to go down..