David body boarding in Hellfire Bay
This morning we left le Grand Beach, and drove to some of the other bays starting at the east end by going to Lucky Bay and working our way back toward the west.
Lucky Bay was quite calm, and other than the couple of small kangaroos on the beach, had little to make it stand out. The sand, like all the beaches, is very white and it is the most protected of all the bays with almost no swell. However there is also a lot of seaweed that has washed up on the beach.
Thistle Bay was very interesting because of all the huge boulders and bare rocks. One of the more interesting is a large slightly concave rock called “Whistle Rock”. It faces the ocean, and when you stand in front of it in the right spot you hear a constant sound much like rushing wind, which is actually the echo of the water from the ocean. We spent almost an hour walking around the rocks taking photographs and video.
We then drove on to Hellfire Bay. I can’t find why it has such a name, but we thoroughly enjoyed it as it had the best swell for using our body board of all the beaches here. We stayed in the water for almost two hours enjoying the surf. The swell occasionally reached over a metre in height, and it gave us a very good ride. As we were walking back to the motorhome from the beach we saw a very large goana. It was at least a metre long, and had been out sunning on the path, but ran back into the bush as we walked by.
Frenchman Peak
After lunch we drove back to Esperance. We stopped to take a picture of Frenchman Peak as we left. This is an interesting peak, for like all the rocks here it has been eroded into caves and other depressions. However, here the entire peak as been eroded underneath so that there is a huge cap rock atop the mountain which is hollow underneath. When we got to Esperance we checked in to the Pink Lake caravan park. After that we bought some more groceries, filled up with fuel, came back and had a shower, so that we are all ready to leave tomorrow morning.