29/10 Esperance

    After a few days at Coolgardie that didn't get us any gold , we headed down the highway toward Esperance . We stopped for an overnighter at Bromus Dam , where there's room for lots of vans - we had about 6 overnight . 

  From there we headed to Esperance to meet Frank & Margaret from Peterborough in SA - they have the same van as ours , and we hadn't seen them since last year , it was good to catch up again . It was a bit strange seeing both vans together , even stranger looking out from ours to see the other beside us . 

    We went out for lunch to Lucky Bay Brewing , they have a great cafe and the beer was great as well , with about 12 types on offer .

    The next evening we had a meal at the Pier Hotel , which was also great . Frank & Margaret headed off back to South Australia the next day , a great few days spent with them .

On the side of the Esperance Yacht Club is a long mural , depicting a lot of the activities that are undertaken in Esperance , yachting of course , fishing & cargo ships taking wheat & iron ore .

     See we do still exist , here's some proof haha .

    Esperance has the most magnificent coast line , this is Blue Haven .

    The local cruise boat / cray boat came and anchored here for morning tea .

    There were some flowers about , this one being most prolific at the moment .

   On the west side of Blue Haven is Salmon Beach , and is linked by a bike / walking track from town. Some view when you're going downhill , there was a chair a little further down where we took in the view for a while .

    Here's Blue Haven from above .

Another shot of Blue Haven and Salmon Beach

     This view is toward Observation Point and is taken from the side of the road .

    There's a great view of the coast from Rotary Lookout , it's on top of a huge lump of granite rock , that is the backdrop to the port operations . We managed to find this pink orchid there .

    A couple of drone shots give you some idea of the size of this rock , there's also walking tracks around the top , one also that gives access to the beach in a private cove just past where the rock jutts into the ocean to the right .

   Here's the view of town and West Beach .

And here's a map link :- https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1sZLo0BOvXFD16qCRRTDqOVIjse0G6f4&usp=sharing