Day 42 – October 12

Back to our usual schedule and almost last out of the van park at 9.50. Stopped at the Tourist information office in town and collected our “We crossed the Nullabor” certificate. Shame Jen couldn’t direct us to the visitor information centre but we found it anyway.
A lot of the road to Esperance was pretty straight as well. Quite agricultural in nature most of the way with the only alleviating feature being the very straight rail line that ran alongside the highway for most of the way. Lot of salt lakes / pans as well. Stopped in Esperance for groceries and fuel (fortunately prices back to expected levels) and were lured into the cafe near the Information Centre for lunch by the rather nice sounding menu. Also picked up our next lot of mail. Now have our WA Parks pass (quite a collection on the car now) and set off for Cape le Grand NP, hoping to find a site in the Le Grand Beach campsite (more private sites and less people) but it was full! Not even school holidays anymore. Despondently set off on the 12 km trek to the Lucky Bay campsite, thinking we might end up back in Esperance at a regular van park, but fortunately there were still some available spots. The beaches around here are truly gorgeous. White sand, turquoise (need a new adjective for blue-green) water, red granite shield rocks dotted around the landscape and snowy white dunes standing in stark contrast. Even some kangaroos (supposed to laze around on Lucky Bay beach but none in evidence). Finished off the BBQ chicken for dinner and relatively early to bed.