On The Way to Esperance

It ended up taking us a couple of nights to get to Esperance. Our first stop was a place called Bremer Bay, about halfway between Albany and Esperance. It is a tiny town with heaps of really lovely beaches. We checked into the Bremer Bay Beaches CP and went to check out some of the beaches. We stopped at Blossom Beach which you could drive your car onto.




Again it is always hard to believe that the water can actually be that colour. It is amazing.




We then had a look at the local surf beach called Native Dog Beach. The surf was pretty good but a bit serious for us.




The next day we drove towards Esperance and stopped for lunch at a place called Ravensthorpe. We met a guy in the park who lived in Esperance and he suggested we check out Munglinup beach. It has a caravan park and a camp site so we drove about 20km off the highway towards the beach to have a look. It turned out to be a great little spot. We set up camp right next to a family with 3 boys who were exactly the same age as ours and within 5 minutes of arriving one of the boys knocked on our door to invite ours to go and play on the enormous sand dunes. So we didn't see them again for a while! We sat down to chat with their parents and another couple who had been at Munglinup for a month and a week respectively. They had been out that morning and caught a few abalone which they started to cook up and were very generous in giving us some to try. Neither Michael nor I had tried abalone before and we thought it was very tasty. Rob, the father of the 3 boys, holds an abalone license and once we heard the penalties for collecting them, even Michael was put off having a look around. Fisheries are very strict in WA, not just with abalone but fish size and bag limits. They show up out of the blue very regularly to see what you have caught. Michael ended up having quite a late night with Rob and Brenton and even tried some late night fishing with no success. They were leaving the next day so we decided to continue in to Esperance and checked in at a great caravan park called the Esperance Seafront CP. It was only $33 a night which is great value.