17/03/2013 – They may not have beat Shelly to the showers but the Grey Nomads beat us out of the Park when they all left as one around 9am to leave us the sole occupants other than a couple who live semi permanent at the Wave Rock Caravan Park.
The road to Esperance had plenty of Nulabour like straight as landing strip stretches and not much else a few towns with only a hotel or a wheat silo and some farmers who drive like Shelly and Ace (no good). We did take a picture of all the bad driving farmer just this truck but we must have passed six cars like this truck.
Ravensthorp had some of the worst coffee you will ever want to sample and Doctor Karl provided the entertainment once Macca finished at 10am. It was a pretty uneventful drive except for the farm machinery that spread the full width of the road (Shelly writing) “it was pretty scary”
Esperance is a beach town not unlike Apollo Bay but with very clear water and white sandy beaches, the esplanade lined with Norfolk Pines, a town of surprisingly 15,000 people. After a quick look around we chose the Seafront Caravan Park and set up camp in time to enjoy what we hear is a Grey Nomad daily occurrence the 4pm beer.
18/03/2013 – As our car is our Penthouse (once setup) we cant just take off to do stuff so our bikes got us into to town for a look around and some early morning exercise before breakfast and Chris went to work.
We are meant to be going fishing tonight of the long pier but its closed for repairs, this has upset the gun fisherman (you know who the best fisherman is) so we are going 50k south on Wednesday to camp on the beach and have an all night fishing competition.
On Esperance it self Aboriginal people have been in these parts or over 20,000 years but not the Bovalino family as I expected. The Aboriginal name for Esperance is Kepa Kurl “the place where the water lay down like a boomerang”
We got talking to the veterans camping near us and I (Shelly) could be heading out sailing in the morning weather pending. The guys name is Don he’s from Holland and live in Kalgoorlie (not much sailing in Kal.)
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