I left
Albany at 8.15 am on 20-4-13 and drove to Esperance in drizzle and at times
heavy showers. Arrived there at lunch time and Greg and Mike were ready to
leave Peter and Rene and drive our car back home. Settled in then did a quick
stocktake of the stores on board and found that we didn’t need much as Greg and
Mike had brought plenty of food with them. That evening had dinner with the
friendly people at the Esperance Bay Yacht Club.
Next day
Geoff (my brother) came and picked us up and we went for a drive out to Cape Le
Grand National Park. That wet our appetite for things to come. What a dramatic
landscape that is. Huge granite hills,
weathered and stark, interspersed with coastal heath and pretty blue bays with
the whitest beaches. On the way back we stopped at the Esperance Stonehenge
which is a replica of the real one in England as it would have looked around
1950BC. The statistics for the weight of the stones are incredible, eg some of
the Trilithon stones weigh in at between 38 and 50 tonne and the lintels 18
tonne. How did they make that original one? The day ended with a roast lamb
dinner at Geoff and Darlene’s.
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