We were up in time to say goodbye to the kids before they
went to school and then we headed south on the dirt road towards Esperance.
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| The eastern boundary of the farm can be clearly seen in the top left of the picture |
We
had already agreed that we were going to miss ‘Wave Rock’ from Are We There Yet
as Hyden was a 200k round trip but to our delight we found out there was another
one on the way! A slight detour and a bit of walk we were at the summit of Mt
Ridley looking back over the farm and then we were surfing a pretty cool wave
rock. Sambo managed to shimmy along a very narrow ledge to the middle of the
rock. It looked pretty cool but unfortunately it was almost impossible to
capture on the camera. The next problem was getting him down from his perch!
We headed to Esperance and, as it had been a week since we
were in a decent sized town and had to get rid all of our fruit and veges at
the border, did a massive stock up! We had read about Lucky Bay in Cape
LeGrande national park as being one of the best beaches around so we headed
there in the hope of getting a camp site. The park is about 40ks out of town
and Lucky Bay and its camping area is 8ks in from there. There was a big sign
saying no more camping available at the park entrance but we decided to run the
gauntlet and hopefully have somebody moving out as we came in. Hmmm according
to the volunteer park supervisor we shouldn’t have done that and he gave me a
fair gob full to make sure I understood. It took all of my will power not to
share with him some of my wisdom and after having a look at how squashed in the
vans were I was happy to be moving on. There is no doubt Lucky Bay was
magnificent but when it is shared with another 40 or so people I am guessing it
would lose a little of its specialness!
We headed further back east and ended up at a free camp on
the side of the town water dam over looking the small town of Condingup. The boys put the yabby
pot in but came up with only littlies. We ate dinner looking out over our
little domain as the sun sunk out of sight. It wasn’t Lucky Bay but it was
quite!
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