To Broome and Back!: Day 104. Albany to Esperance. 23/08/2015

Headed off early out along the Albany Highway to eventually link up with the Esperance Highway. We very quickly left the town centre and found ourselves in a more rural area with small farming allotments. We passed a church named “The Church of Rivers” -WTF ? Never seen that before.

The landscape was very interesting and the further we drove the larger the farms became and we saw what must be thousands and thousands of hectares of crops of mostly Canola. Then we came upon huge sheep stations that had paddocks stocked with thousands of heads of sheep. A little bit of dairy and beef cattle farming, all with magnificent looking stock. The large rainfall that has been seen in this area must be making the farmers very happy and later very wealthy! Very lush and beautifully managed farms. It was raining lightly most of the journey and on our arrival in Esperance it stopped just long enough for us to set up for an overnight stay.

The caravan park is right on the seafront and although it was cold and windy the view was quite magnificent. We drove along the Esplanade to view the amazing houses overlooking Esperance Bay, then back through town to the Great Ocean Drive that took us up a steep hill that wound around the bay and to some viewing platforms where we took some lovely photos of the beaches. The water is that beautiful Azure blue and the rocks at the waters edge were astounding. Our favourite spot was Twilight Bay and can only imagine that it would look amazing on a nice sunny day. No matter where you stand on the shoreline you can see the hundreds of islands that make up the Archipelago of the Recherche. It is very fascinating to see and I imagine that a boat ride around the Archipelago would be fantastic. Not for us this trip maybe next time.

Back to camp for Happy Hour with Heather and Don who are also in the park but are staying on for another day after we leave tomorrow.