The forecast is for little wind and storms at night. With no wind the flies are horrible and seem to favour the side of the bus where we sit and where the door is. Great. So every time we open the door we have to hit ourself with a twig to get rid off the flies on our head, backs and bums as well as hardly open the door as not to invite flies in. A futile exercise and we decide to move on.
The caretaker of the campsite saw Marjo’s kayak and wondered whether we had checked out the river already. “River?” we said and then decided to check it out.
The walk from the road to the river over a sandy 4Wd track was picturesque, but a bit too far to lug a 4 meter kayak. So we limited our venture to a walk.
And see many wild flowers.
We then moved on to Esperance of which we had high expectations, ideal for kiting, white beaches causing snow blindness.
I must say, it’s not bad, but the stories were a bit over exaggerated. The beaches are not that white and most of the city is on a high rock which makes the wind very unstable. Plus the fact that there was hardly any wind that day made us decide just to go for some sight seeing and a refreshing swim.
Not sure that it woke up everyone though.
Then the weather started to turn, a storm was predicted.
And we decided to get on the road for our trip across the Nullarbor. First north from Esperance towards Norseman. When the sky turned darker, we decided to pull into Salmon Gums and stayed at the small community campground. It had a good shower and was quiet.
That evening the tail of the storm that played havoc in inland Western Australia came over our bus, with ferocious winds, sandstorm, severe rain and thunder. Afterwards all four of us were on the bed, the dogs spooked and we literally shaken from the wind rocking the bus.
We slept well that night.
Posted from Salmon Gums, Western Australia, Australia.
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