It’s an around 5 hours’ drive between Albany and Esperance which was so far the longest at the south coast, but we’ll beat that, promised. So we arrived in Esperance at around 4PM but since our couchsurfing host had to work we spent the time with a drive on the Ocean Drive. This one makes his way around another Pink Lake (which is apparently not pink at all) heading to the coast with 16 white beaches.
Since we already chose that we wanted see the Twilight Beach, we only stopped at the others for some photos in order to then have a break at the most famous beach of Western Australia. Just have a look on the photos and you’ll know why. It’s unbelievable beautiful although it was a bit too windy to have a swim. However, we should get the chance to swim on the next day… Once it became too windy, we just crossed the road to another beach and watched the sunset (which was apparently a bit strange since we were staying on the south coast of Australia 😉 ) When it became too cold, and it was however already 7 PM, we headed to our next couchsurfer Kyle.
Kyle was again one of these typical awesome couchsurfing experiences with an own story. He is 24, volunteers as a surf rescuer and works at the airport and as a ranger (both part-time) to finance his Outdoor-sport-teacher-studies which starts in February (there are very cool studies over here 😉 ). To save as much money as possible he is a house-sitter since 1 ½ years without interruption!! So we were parking in front of the garage of a house, whose owners we most probably will never meet and had dinner in their guest house together with Kyle (I told you it’s a very interesting story…). Since Kyle is a pure local he had a lot of hints for our day in Esperance!
As we already saw the beaches in Esperance, we drove the next day to the national park Cape Le Grand, which is well known for its beaches (yay!!!) and its 36km hiking trail (we only did a part of it). The most famous beach is Lucky Bay, have a look on the pictures, its pure beauty (even kangaroos come here to take a sun bath). We walked along the complete beach, taking around 2 hours, and as prize we reaches a nearly nicer half bay within the bay. One always hears that you can find the most beautiful beaches in Australia on the north east, but we have no idea how this amazing beach should be beaten…
After having seen Lucky Bay, we went to another Bay, Little Hellfire Bay, on advice of Kyle. To make a long story short, not as awesome as Lucky Bay, but small, white and without any people!
Back in Esperance, we had dinner and prepared everything for our long drive to Adelaide.