After a very busy first month in Oz (hard to believe we've already been here a month, but also impossible to believe it was only a month ago that we landed in Sydney), when SR and I reached the coast in Esperance in Western Australia, we decided to celebrate by sitting still for a couple of days. What a place to do it. The guidebook lured us in with talk of white beaches and turquoise waters, and it was not lying. In what I assume is a take-off on Victoria's Great Ocean Road, Esperance has a lovely 40-km Great Ocean Drive.
In hopes of more of the same with less of the town/people, we went 60 km east along the coast to Cape Le Grand National Park, which has half a dozen beaches that look like this:
Both the water and the air were a little too chilly for swimming, but it was not hard to entertain ourselves walking the white sand and carving chairs out of the dune edges for a comfy place to read while watching the waves crash in. SR also indulged one of his favorite projects: dam-building. He was very proud of his dominance over nature and even built a bypass for the stream of water running alongside this rock to give himself time to build an effective dam. He's pretty sure it's going to be mentioned in the next edition of Lonely Planet: Australia, so look out for it at a bookstore near you in 2015.
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