Left Albany at 9:30 and arrived in Esperance at about 14:00 after 477 kms of long road. The striking thing about driving in this part of Western Australia is that you might be driving on the main road between 2 of the larger towns in this area and you can go 20 or 30 mins without passing another vehicle on the road. This makes more sense when you discover that WA which makes up 1 third of the country, and only has a population of about 2 milion people, with 3/4 of them living in and around Perth. Its only really when you travel overland here that you get a feeling for how massive the country is!
The beaches down here are truly spectaculour, complete with a few lunatics surfing on one beach in particular which is blessed with large rocks just off the shore. These guys were surfing in the gap between the rocks. Apparently thats where the best surfing is, but if they fell, they could very easily be impaled on the rocks.
The jetty in Esperance is full of people fishing in the evenings, along with a resident sealion who was swimming up and down near the shore, forever hopeful that some of the fishermen would discard their catches in his direction.
Got another motel style place for tonight, which came complete with a barbeque area so I've decided to cook for myself for the first time since I left home. I had a lovely bit of steak along with some red wine I picked up in Margaret River.
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