Home for a month!
Esperance really did become home. There's still, nearly a year later, so many things that just remind me of being there.
It is a town of beaches. A short tourist drive takes you on a loop out of town to all the little coves.Twilight Beach; Observatory Point; 10mile Lagoon; 11mile beach; the secret surf beach, to name but a few. I became very familiar with some of these while Casey was working.
We spent most nights in a campsite on the sea front though. Met a couple of great guys there and ended up spending most of three days out in a tiny, serviceable fishing boat. Now fishing is another activity I'm really not a big fan of. Stand on a rock/bank/beach, throw a line and wait. Not much appeal to me. But add to that the fact that we're out in a tiny, little boat and I had a great time. I caught my first ever fish and probably caught as much as anyone overall, though the boys nearly managed to reel in a small ray. Of course we had no idea what any of the fish were so we were throwing them all back.
Added to that I got to drive the boat and we were anchored just next to a small rocky island with sea lions on!
Most of our time in Esperance was very normal. We played mini golf- golf in a form I actually enjoy. I wasn't even too bad at it by the second time around.
We went to the cinema; had take-aways; went drinking with the shearers, which generally consisted of taking a carton (box) of beer over to their block on the industrial estate and having a few; went to parties, where I experienced my first spit-roasted hog; ended up in hospital on a morphine drip; and went for weekends away!
When we went away, it was to Cape Le Grand National Park. Home to yet more gorgeous beaches; kangaroos on the beach; and, Frenchman's Lookout, which is quite a climb but worth it for the views.
So all in all a beautiful time in Esperance and what I miss the most is my daily routine- a smoothie from the smoothie trailer for breakfast, a wander round, a coffee from the Coffee Cat trailer and a cake in the afternoon before driving out to yet another beach!
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