Esperance

Esperance is cold, wet, foggy and windy! We just have to imagine how good the beaches are through the haze...spend the first day having a long lunch at the Pier Hotel..

Day 2 is better, our park is on the Esplanade and the view of the water from our van is a ripper! We have some sunshine today and have a coffee while watching a pod of dolphins playing. Samuel and I skateboard and walk down the Esplanade while Mark drives the sports equipment and other two to a great foreshore park, bball court, a whale shaped climbing frame, maze, miniature railway etc.

We stop at the Tanker Jetty where “Sammy” the seal is meant to frolick, I see people having coffee on the foreshore and watching something, so we get closer and see what we think is a big dead seal laying on the seaweed....uuummm we aren’t sure, but he moves a flipper and he is very alive! Gorgeous, huge and lazy, gets up every now and again to move a metre or so, then lays back down with the effort. We are only a few metres away up on the bank and watch him for ages.

Samuel and Mark clash (literally) on the bball court later and we are fearful he (Samuel) has hurt his collarbone again. Bit of ice and he is on his way, lucky...no time for injuries on this trip.

A bit alarmed at a potential gas leak in the van but hopefully all is ok, c’mon van not long to go now, hang in there...