Monday 6 May 2013

Liz joins Rene in Eperance


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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