Ravensthorpe, Esperance 2009

November 5th, Left Albany for Ravensthorpe and booked into Ravensthorpe Caravan Park for the night. The sign at the front of the Park promised clean amenities, and they delivered. We were met at the Office by a very friendly woman and certainly a character. She was covered with tattoos and had 2 thongs that didn’t match, they were different colours. We set up and walked around the Park and were amazed at the number of old junk that was re-used as decoration around the gardens and buildings, as you can see in the photos. Our Host proudly admitted to being the Queen of Recycling. She didn’t throw anything away if she could find a use for it.

November 6th, Travelled on to Esperance and booked into Esperance Bay Holiday Park, for 3 nights. After setting up we drove around Town, to check out the shops and call into the Information Centre. We were impressed with the beach, so scenic, white sand and clear clean water.

November 7th, I walked into Town to visit The Heritage Village and took a few photos. All the building are being used as shops. I went to look through the Museum only to find that it didn’t open until 1.30pm so left that for to-morrow. After lunch we did the Scenic Coastal Drive, starting with the Rotary Lookout. What a terrific 360 deg. view over the whole Coastline and Township. The drive took in the following beaches, West, Blue Haven, Salmon, Forth, Twilight and Thirteenth. We passed a Hang Glider floating around above the cliffs who caught our attention, then headed inland to Pink Lake. We were disappointed to find that the Lake wasn’t pink at all and found out later that it hasn’t been pink for the last 18 months, due to the influx of fresh water. We stopped off at “The Yabbie Farm” and bought some live yabbies then “Tenticles” to buy fresh live mussels, on our way back to Town. It was a really nice enjoyable tourist drive. Val enjoyed her evening meal of fresh yabbies with vinegar, lemon, salt and pepper and reckons that they are better than prawns.

November 8th, Val was busy sewing to-day so I went to look at the Museum that I missed yesterday, alas, it still wasn’t open. I then walked the Tanker Jetty, 842 metres long and was built in 1935. It was missing a short section that had to be cut out due to rotting pylons. A Seal entertained me, swimming around the jetty in the shallows and the fishermen were catching squid off the Jetty. To-morrow we move on to Norseman for an overnight stop before starting our first crossing of The Nullarbor Plains.