No school work.... Yipee!

Esperance is a lovely beachside town which boasts the usual small town shops and of course Target for Jem. The beauty of this town is really its surrounds. It is surrounded by a beautiful coastline of stunning beaches with white fine sand, great surf, even better fishing and turquoise blue waters.

There have been many classic comments from our children throughout our nearly three months away, but this one really tops them to date. After sitting outside drinking some wine and watching the kids playing in the playground, Rubes came up to us and said, “Mum, you and Dad are really drinking a lot lately”. After which I said “Rubes, this is our way of relaxing at the end of the day”, to which she said “ Well then how are we supposed to relax?”

Just brilliant! We still laugh about it every day when we see them swimming in the water, surfing, playing on their ipods, dancing in the caravan, watching a movie in the car......and the list goes on. Hard life this travelling thing!

We bunkered in for 10 days in Esperance for what was going to be a long spell without Josh. After a couple of days, Josh left for Dubbo and then onto Sydney. Luckily for me it was school holidays and as happy as the kids were to not be doing any work, I was even more!

We spent a few days riding into town and looking at what the town had to offer, galleries, jewellery shops and numerous visits to the fresh juice bar. The kids made quite a few friends at the playground which was situated directly in front of our caravan so they had a great time. The kids started a very difficult puzzle which is yet to be finished, Oscar made a Ecosystem in a milk container for school and Jem continued to make spectacular lego creations.

Esperance has a few local tourist highlights, one of which was the Pink Lake. A salt lake that after certain weather conditions turns a shade of pink. I drove the kids to see it, and although there was water in it, we just couldn't see the pink colour that everyone talked about. After looking and looking and a lot of laughing we drove on.

Thankfully, the school holiday movies started at the local cinema and while the car went in for a service and the rain was coming down, we were able to catch a few movies to finish off our time without Josh.

We were really looking forward to Josh coming home so that we could leave the big caravan park and head for Cape Le Grand. Supposedly, one of the most beautiful beaches in Western Australia. We were booked into a caravan park in Orleans Bay, east of the National Park and excited about the thought of embracing a bit of nature again.

After a drive to the airport to get daddy, a quick stop in town to get a softboard and some groceries we were ready to head off.