Great Ocean Road to Esperance

Hi All

Hope you’ve had a good few weeks and for those with kids at school, I’m sure, like me, you are looking forward to the end of term!!

Travelling through Victoria, South Australia and across the border to WA, we’ve had huge diversity over the past couple of months, all with its own beauty in different ways.   In keeping with tradition, at the start of the Great Ocean Road, the girls enjoyed a dip in chilly waters (just as well we have their wetsuits), before seeing the 12 Apostles and of course London Bridge!   ‘

From there we cut up to the Grampians National Park, and enjoyed some really picturesque walks, firstly to Mount Piccaniny and then to the Balconies Lookout which was just amazing.  We found a great little camping spot, in Penshurst Botanical Gardens and were surrounded by English trees – it felt a real home from home!

We tend to gravitate to the National Parks and so after a few days there, we moved onto Flinders Ranges National Park.  It was a great time to be there because although there were zillions of flies, there weren’t many people, so we camped in the middle of the National Park, Wilpena Pound and had the place to ourselves…and the flies!!!   The walks there were spectacular and the kids loved scrambling over rocks and a dried up riverbed to find Aboriginal paintings.

From Flinders, we drove onto Venus Bay for a last stay on the coast before starting the jaunt across the Nullabor!  The girls enjoyed a bit of fishing (as usual not catching anything but they enjoy trying!!), a day spent at Murphy’s Haystacks (for those with the book “Are We There Yet”, its just like that!!)  The boulders were huge and literally in the middle of a very flat farm!

From there, we started the long journey across the Nullarbor.  There are some stunning lookouts along the way, and it was much greener than we expected.  By chance we seemed to camp in spots with the same group of people and have met some really lovely people along the way.  We’ve just left Esperance (which again Steve says….”oooh, I could live here”!), and enjoyed a lovely week there.  We spent a day at Cape Le Grand National Park which has stunning beaches and have just enjoyed being in one place for a while.  We stayed on a Yabby Farm which had a billy cart for the little kids and man cave for the bigger kid, so everyone in the family was happy!! 

We are now on our way to Albany WA, where we’ll meet Steve’s mum in a couple of days and we’ll stay there for a week or so, before slowly making our way closer to Perth.

I’ll keep you posted on our adventures in WA!   

Take care

xxx