From:
To: Esperance (WA)
Via: Great Ocean Road Drive and Monjingup Lake
Distance: 36km
High: A whole afternoon playing on 11 Mile Beach
Low: I stand in an ants nest without noticing until its too late. Very scary experience and broke all records taking my clothes off....... Just in time, no harm done, just a few nasty stings.
Quote of the day: Simon "Why do we go to see Pink Lake if the lake is blue?"
Animals: Seagulls (5), Cows (13), Whales (3), Bees (5), Horses (16), Birds (many), Bobtail Lizard (1), Ants (1000s), Butterflies (7), Mozzies (100s)
Colours: Mainly white and blue with red granite on the beach.
Cars: NA
Weather: morning 15C sunny, afternoon 21C sunny
A lazy day in town today. We take it easy. Kids get to watch television early in the morning. We bake pancakes for breakfast. Kick a ball on the field next door. Then we're off for a hike in a nature reserve where we find that we still have not seen everything. It is an adventurous hike as it goes through wetlands and many dangerous snakes live here. Of course we don't see any. Just birds, butterflies and bees. And many ants.
After a picnic we decide we will spend the rest of the day on one of Esperance's 16 beaches and we choose 11 Mile beach. No-one else is there today. We see 3 whales swimming in the distance. We build sand castles, run for our lives if big waves crash on the beach and jump from steep dunes.
Just peace and quiet and quality time.
Very very nice.
Starting the day with pancakes.
Vegetation at Monjingup Lake. Very mysterious atmosphere.
Harmony between butterfly and bees.
Plants have adapted to extreme weather conditions in many different ways.
Little funghi on the path.
Playing on 11 Mile Beach.
Port of Esperance end of the afternoon.
A lazy day in town today. We take it easy. Kids get to watch television early in the morning. We bake pancakes for breakfast. Kick a ball on the field next door. Then we're off for a hike in a nature reserve where we find that we still have not seen everything. It is an adventurous hike as it goes through wetlands and many dangerous snakes live here. Of course we don't see any. Just birds, butterflies and bees. And many ants.
After a picnic we decide we will spend the rest of the day on one of Esperance's 16 beaches and we choose 11 Mile beach. No-one else is there today. We see 3 whales swimming in the distance. We build sand castles, run for our lives if big waves crash on the beach and jump from steep dunes.
Just peace and quiet and quality time.
Very very nice.
