After lunch Housie tried again to find this beach this time heading west, we topped over some sand dunes to find a long stretch of beach with beautiful white sand and turquoise water. We Found it! The kids spotted a fishing trawler that had washed up onto the beach and it wasn't long before we were all looking through it. We settled at the beach for the rest of the afternoon happy that we had found the place, finally.
Day 65: Back to the beach in the morning, more swimming, reading and playing with cars. When we headed back for lunch, Declan complained about his earlobe being sore from his earring. Al had a quick look and said that the back had fallen off and the rod of the earring must have been rubbing on it. After more complaints later, Al had a really good look at it, and realised that Declan had pushed the back of it on so hard that his ear had started to grow around the backing of the earring. After a few failed attempts by Al with tweezers to get it off (and huge protests by Declan), we decided to pack up and drive the 270kms into Esperance Hospital. We arrived at the hospital at about 730pm and they removed his earring and cleaned up the area. We left the hospital at about 830pm on a Saturday night and to what we didn't know was a long weekend in WA, so everything was booked out. After driving around town for about 40mins trying to find an inconspicuous place to put up the camper, we found a great spot out side of the Mighty Gibson Tigers AFL ground.
Day 66: We headed for the local indoor swimming pool for a bit of a splash and a hot shower, and across the road they were setting up for a car show. We looked around these nice cars and Declan had to take a photo of every single one. They also had the local firies there to show how they gain access to a car that has been involved in an accident. Take it from us, you do not want to have an accident in Esperance. These guys bumbled there way through and still after about 20mins could not get the back door to pop even with all their equipment.
That afternoon we took the scenic route around the towns beaches (which were beautiful) and looked at Pink Lake (which was not pink). Due to Monday being the public holiday we set off towards Fitzgerald National Park.
As we arrived at the National park it was $12 entry then a further $28 a night, with drop toilets and no showers. We decided for that price we could stay at the caravan park at Hopetoun for not much extra an have proper toilets and nice showers.
Pink Lake
Day 67: We drove out to Fitzgerald National park and headed for Quoin Head beach, which is an isolated and beautiful. When we finally arrived we had the whole place to ourselves. Al decided that it was time she would do some nude sunbathing and skinny dipping as she hadn't had the opportunity to do it earlier. Housie convinced her that it would probably be better if she didn't do it in front of the kids. She agreed and kept her gear on. As we were about to leave another couple arrived in a Toyota Prado. This guy looked to be having issues coming down the steep hill to get to the beach. They saw us packing up and seemed to head to their car quickly as if they wanted to beat us onto the narrow track out. This guy was driving at about 0.5km/hr even the kids were making comment on how slow he was going. We tackled the very steep incline with ease and it wasn't long before Housie had caught up to him. After about 5 mins of following him and Housie swearing under his breath, this guy finally let us pass. We asked if all was ok, and he mentioned that it was a Toyota and that it had no guts, and he wished he had a Colorado like us. We left the poor geezer in our dust and went back to town.
View from Fitzgerald NP back towards Hopetoun
Nearly road kill
Quoin Head
Day 68: Today we headed to Albany a town known for it's history of whaling. Housie took the camper into another auto electrician to see if we could finally get our right blinker to work. A young guy, either just out of his apprenticeship or near the end of it, crawled all over it. Finally he had discovered that one of the pins on the electrical plug on the trailer was not opened far enough. All it took was for him to open the pin up and it worked perfectly!!! By this time it was late afternoon so we went to a caravan park at Emu Beach and set up camp.
Day 69: This morning we thought it'd be good to take the kids to Whale World to show them some of Albany's history. While exploring the old ship we came across a video that was showing footage of whales being harpooned and the water filling with blood, noticing the kids faces looking a little distressed we decided to move on to the more appropriate areas. The kids enjoyed the other movies on offer that were all about the different whales. We saw a skeleton of a whale and it was massive! Also around this area is a wildlife sanctuary and botanical garden. We went and checked out the animals. There was the usual kangaroos, koalas, etc. On the way back to town we stopped off to look at some of the natural sites, The Gap and The Natural Bridge.
Sperm Whale skeleton
Natural Bridge
Day 70: Today Colin was booked in for a service so while this was being done Al and Charli went and had their hair done. After this we had lunch and walked around the foreshore and the shopping area. It was 3pm and Colin was still not ready to be picked up and wouldn't be until 430pm. We were sick of walking around so we went to the library and sat around on the lounges. The kids and Al happily read books while Housie got some shut eye, which was a bit embarrassing when he started snoring. Back at the camp the kids were once again glued to the TV in the camp kitchen. There were 2 other campers using the kitchen, Joran and Luce, from Belgium. They were a lovely couple who had just started their trip around Aus.
Funnily enough, this is called dog rock!
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