The beautiful beaches at Cape Le Grand were enough to entice Barbie away from her bingeing and man chasing to give the surf a go. The water was cold but the conditions were perfect and there wasn't another surfer in the water for 50km.
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Our plan from Albany was to head on over to Esperance and spend a few days camped there as a base while we checked out the surrounding area. But in Albany, we met up with the friends that we’d met up at Cape Range/Ningaloo Reef again and they put us onto the Cape Le Grand National Park, 50km east of Esperance. So, we spent one night in Esperance and then followed our friends over to the National Park, and are we glad that we did. The National Park campground at Cape Le Grand was the best NP campground I’ve ever been in. Situated right on one of the many picture postcard perfect beaches this campsite, at $18 a night was better than many of the caravan parks we’ve stayed in for $40+ a night. It had a camp kitchen with barbeques and gas stoves, flush toilets and solar hot water for hot showers and backed right onto the beach. Cape Le Grand, and the Esperance area in general, we’ve decided, has the most magnificent beaches anywhere in the world. The sand is the whitest white and the water at these beaches is crystal clear and multiple shades of blue, aqua and turquoise. Ningaloo Reef was spectacular but believe it or not the beaches there pale in comparison. In the dunes, scrub and mountains behind the beaches, wildflowers were blooming everywhere and as spectacular here as anywhere else we’ve seen. The result of this though was the one downside to this stay: the flowers attracted flies. They were horrendous whenever the ever present gale force winds eased up briefly. We reluctantly left Cape Le Grand this morning and after driving along the Great Ocean Drive, Esperance’s equivalent of Victoria’s Great Ocean Road, headed north and inland for Norseman and the start of our trek across the Nullabor. The next time we see the ocean it should be in the middle of the Great Australian Bight. |
Greg ShawGreg Shaw - spouse of Jenny, layabout, documentary film maker (most noted for working exclusively with his star subject, Barbie) Archives
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