Fitzgerald River NP

15.04.13 Lucky Bay

If you ever want to see some amazing, white beaches and crystal clear blue water go to Esperance. Cape Le Grand National Park has some beautiful places for swimming, walking and climbing. We went to stay at the Lucky Bay and couldn't believe our luck:) The sand on the beach is really white and so different than any sand we ever seen.  Its claimed to be the whitest sand in Australia, and although Im sure we have heard that claim before, it is probably the finest sand we have ever seen. When is wet is quite sticky and when is dry is finer than salt. When you walk on it the sound reminded Lidia of walking on snow. It makes this squeaky noise like cold, wet snow...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After climbing the Frenchman Peak and driving around the park we went for a swim and just enjoy the rest of the afternoon in this little paradise.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We saw some kangaroos on the beach as promised in the guide. They come to eat some seaweed and Lidia saw couple of them fighting over it even tho the seaweed was surrounding them. Stupid kangaroos.

 

16.04.13 Quagi  Beach

The next day the weather wasn't that nice so we went for some walks around the bay and spotted a lot of different wild flowers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Graham collect a bucket of sand as a souvenir and we went back to Esperance. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We found out that Esperance has a unique shop called a "Mermaid shop" were they make skin from fish. You can buy handbags, wallets, belts etc made of fish skin. As the process is quite expensive they make most of this staff using kangaroos skin and just the main parts are made from fish skin (barramundi, shark and sting ray). If you saw it you wouldn't believe that this is fish skin.

 

After driving around the great ocean drive we called a night at the Quagi beach where Graham again couldn't catch any fish

 

17.04.13 Fitzgerald River National Park

 

We think this is the first day of rain after a month of dry, quite hot weather. In the Fitzgerald River NP they have a Edwards Point which we thought it'd be fun to visit but unfortunately the roads are closed due to road works. This whole place is quite confusing. Before we got to this park some ladies at the information centre were telling us that we could camp here with a caravan and some that we couldn't. Even people in the town next to the park were giving us different answers so we ditched our caravan next to the caravan park in Hopetoun and went for a drive.  As we found out the isn't that much to see here because of road work and the campground is big enough for our little caravan. So we went back to pick up our "baby" and stay here for the night. It's next to the beach and Graham went fishing again.  This time he got lucky :)