Cape Le Grand NP just 50km E of Esperance is magnificent. It has so much natural beauty with the coastal heath of the NP and the granite peaks and headlands flowing into dark blue ocean and turquoise waves breaking onto pure white sand. Simply amazing.
I spent about 3 hours here this morning checking out each of the locations from Cape Le Grand Beach – Hellfire Bay – Lucky Bay and Frenchman Peak. Just stunning, each a little different but the scenery spectacular. Have I impressed you yet, it was magnifico!
You can camp within the NP right next to the beach, walk from location to location if that is what you want, or just walk the beaches and coves. You could easily spend any number of days here in the NP camp grounds, or just take the 1/2 hour drive from Esperance. Robyn would have loved it, but sadly we just didn’t have the time to do the extra 500 plus km (one way) to see it together.
Sorry the photos just don’t quite capture the grandeur, but take my word for this one.
At the beach I stopped for coffee and a couple road in on a Yamaha cruiser, their trailer was back at Esperance and they were on a sightseeing day trip. They hailed from Adelaide and we simply talked for over an hour. So this left my departure a little later than expected.
So I hit the road and simply rode through to Kalgoorlie, stopping at Norseman for a light lunch. I arrived in town around 4:30pm (after doing 550km today) where it was still 31C, so a warm riding day. I am staying at the YHA again tonight. These work out very well because of their location and pricing. I always get a single room and they have all the facilities necessary for a self catered stay.
However, I still haven’t done that shop that should have been done since I restarted the trip. So I headed around to the local pub for a beer and what turned out to be a mountainous and excellent cottage pie and vegetables. The quirky thing at the pub was that when you order a beer, the bar girl tosses a coin, you choose head/tail, and if you win the beer is free. The first beer I paid for, but the second tasted that much better being free. Only in Kal!
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