For the start of our 3rd day we drove up to Mount Clarence, which gives some amazing views out over King George Sound, up here is the local ANZAC memorial, this area would have been the last view of Australia, the troops would have seen as they left on the troop ships to go off to WWI.
We then had a walk along the local boardwalk which goes around the coast to Middleton Beach, then we topped up with fuel and food, and started the long trip towards Esperance, this is around 423km, which is about the distance from the Cornwall border to the other side of London and up into Essex. Along the way we stopped at a place called Castle Rock in the Porongurup Ranges, you could then walk up to a place called Balancing Rock, although I decided not to go the whole way up as my leg was playing up.
We then went to a local winery for lunch, and another tasting although this was more Riesling which is a wine I don’t like, after this we made our move and carried on the drive to Esperance, this was a long drive so a group of us ended up laying various games with Jenai, this included ‘Celebrity Heads’, where have a name written on your head and you have to ask questions to guess who you are, this kept us going for a good couple of hours, and then various card games.
When we got into Esperance, we were all in one big dorm for the whole tour group, and they had put on dinner for us so no-one had to cook which was good, so a quick visit to the bottle shop was in order as we were not going to be starting very early the next day.
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