Esprintz

I spent this past weekend in Esperance, which is known for having the best beaches in Australia. I'm not sure I'll go that far, there are a lot to choose from, but they are certainly the stuff of postcards. I was fortunate enough to meet up with an English bloke and a Dutch girl who had a car. On the first day (cloudy) we did the "Great Ocean Drive" and on the second day (perfect) we drove out to the national park, Cape Le Grande. Rather than search my limited vocabulary for adjectives, I'll let some pictures do the talking.


Driving into Lucky Bay in Cape Le Grande.


Lucky Bay

Naturally, Lucky Bay was a little overcrowded (15 people or so) so we headed down to Thistle Cove.


We had this one to ourselves.

There was a pretty decent surf that day, so I figured I would put my new underwater camera to the test.


1-2m wave, maybe 5m away and closing, fast.

It passed the test.


Body surfing, or something like it.


Heading out of Thistle Cove. This picture really doesn't do any justice. In the background is Frenchman's Peak, unfortunately it's details are a little tough to make out in this picture. I had wondered that day why it was called Frenchman's Peak, then one look at it and it was clear. Note the toupayyy.


"HA! Yeah right, 40 minutes, tops" -Mike and I


Little did we know, there is only a path for the first, of 3 kms. From there you have to find the markers. Oh, and by the way, it's steep.



Fuelled with overconfidence and un-prepared-ness, I'm doing this in flip flops.



But we made it.


I don't have many pictures at the top. If you know me, I am a little girl when it comes to heights. At one point Mike looked down, and I almost got sick just from that. Anyways, we managed our way down without incident and made it back to the sign in about 1hr and 15, not bad I reckon. We passed an extended family (children-grandparents) about to begin the path, we gave them a simple, "good luck".