So after a easy start to the day, only got up at about 7 ish, so did not leave until 8.30am which was nice we headed off to our first place of the day, which was a climb up a place in Cape Le Grand National Park, called Frenchmans Peak, which is only 260m high, but you know that you have climbed it, the start is easy but then you have to climb up the rock itself but the trail up is well marked and not that challenging, as we all kept stopping for funny pictures at the start soon our group was at the back, and so I decided that I want to try and get to the top first, but could see that the little old Italian lady was well over halfway up, I pushed on and managed to make good time getting when I got to the first plateau she was only a short way in front and busy taking pictures of the view, so after having a seat for a couple of minutes, mainly to get my breath back and slow the old ticker down, I tried to scale the side of the last bit which had a slight slop, only got half way up and this point so had to slid back down on my bum. Then worked around to the other side and found another point with which to climb up, which I scrambled up and managed to get on to the end of the top of the rock so ran along and got up to the highest point, far to competitive at times, then had a chat with the Italian lady when she walked around to the top. The views from up here made it worth while to do the climb up to the top.
We then headed on to Lucky Bay, which is rated the best beach in all of Australia, there was a couple of kangaroos down on the beach when we got there as well. We then got to see what made it different as you stood in one place you would slowly sink in to the sand, moving your feet a bit helped even more, soon was down to just above my knees. We then headed around to Hellfire Beach, where we all went in for a swim, sadly the sun was not really out that much so it was a bit on the cold side. We then got to have a BBQ here as the parks department provide large built gas BBQ at a lot of sites, after lunch we then went back in for another swim.
We then headed into Esperance for a look around the town and then out to a lookout point above the town on Wireless Hill. Then we headed down to Twilight Beach (I think) down at the far end near the point is a group of rocks which you could swim out to, this info was provide by Jenai who grew up in Esperance, so me, Phil and Jenai swam out to the rock as we wanted to see what this washing machine was which she had told us about, to say it was cold is an understatement what with the sun setting at the time we were swimming as well, but the washing machine effect was really good and this is going have to be a highlight of my whole holiday.
We then drove up around the windmill farms they have near the town, before having a drive past the pink lake, which at the moment is a bit blue, although you could not really tell as it was dark by then. After getting back to the hostel we had a quick dinner and a few drinks, then I went out with the girls from Australia to the local bar which had karaoke on.
Tags: Cape Le Grand National Park, Earn Your Stripes, Esperance, Freanchmans Peak, Hellfire Beach, Isla, Kangaroos, Lucky Beach, Pink Lake, Romy, statravel, Twilight Beach, Western Xposure Tours, Wireless Hill
