Pitter patter, Pitter patter most of the night and we awake to a grey morning, take our time and by the time we are heading for the Great Ocean Drive, backwards, it's beginning to brighten up.
We get to the pink lake but it's grey, no sunlight on it, get to our first beach and it's flat, dull and damp, however by the time we get to Twilight Beach the sun is beginning to win and the sea is becoming blue. We stop and talk to a couple and then find out they know Javea well as they have a place out in Murcia, by the time we have finished discussing campsites and places to visit, the cloud has gone and we see Twilight Bay in all its glory, no wonder it won best beach in 2006......
We carry on doing the other 6 beaches, all of which Esperance is proud of before setting off to the Kepwari Wetland Walk Trail. It's down a gravel road overlooking a lake so we stop here for lunch and although the sun has gone it's still bright. Now officially birdwatchers are called 'Twitchers' and some conjure up the picture of 'Anorak's'. Well all I can say is After this afternoon, I now have half membership to the club, so just call me Twit and boy could I have done with an Anorak..........
We set off in shorts, t shirt, sports sandals and camera, I leave the camera case with its built in waterproof cover in the van and after 35 mins of walking through what can only be described as dead bushland we come across a bird hide and take a seat inside. After a while there is quite a lot of activity on the lake, especially when two eagles fly overhead, never seen so many ducks poo themselves so rapidly....... And then, Pitter patter on the roof of the hide, I remember that sound I say and look at the lake to see it's raining, just slightly so a decision is made to wait it out before calling it a day and rearming to the van.
It starts to Thunder, it continues to thunder only now with lightning, the rain gets heavier, the sky gets darker and the noise on the roof gets louder........ We wait ten minutes and then decide it's got to be done, so camera up t shirt and out we go, it begins to ease, oh Thank you, Mother Nature and then, well if we had stayed in the hide we would now be deaf, it buckets down and continues to do so, not only for the next 20 minutes that it took us to get back to the van but an hour or so after that. Once back to the van at least we could strip off, dry, change and hopefully save our electronics (cameras & phone). The van is all steamed up so after a five minute blower on the Windows we realise we cannot see much further due to the amount of rain, however we start our journey along the gravel road which is now a mini river, we manage to climb up a small hill but then when we look down the other side there are huge channels now gushing with water, they weren't there earlier my co pilot states as we quickly drive to one side with two wheels basically in the bush and the van at an angle of at least 40 degrees...... We survive and find a sealed road, it's sealed but has no drains as it runs off into the lake so we are making waves so to speak until we join a main road. Phew you might think, that's better as we did until you realise, that at this moment in time there are now basically only three types of driver on the road,
1. Those driving as we were at a reduced speed, with care, but driving.
2. Those that have panicked and have simply stopped at the side of the road causing an obstruction to driver no 1.
3. The 4x4 moronic dickhead who belts about, mainly to the side of the road where the water is deepest so as to make the biggest splash possible........
It's just gone 4pm but I'm heading down the center of a two lane road making it one lane to somewhere I know we can park, hopefully not many people, we can have a drink and with luck dinner, we go to the bar in the Port, park up and give a sigh of relief as we venture out to get wet all over again. It's an early dinner for us but the deluge turns into simple raining and then drizzle, we get back to camp and surprise surprise no one is using the laundry. We soon put the machines to good use when it's starts thunder and lightning again, now we just hope the washing/drying cycle finishes before we have a power cut..........
We get to the pink lake but it's grey, no sunlight on it, get to our first beach and it's flat, dull and damp, however by the time we get to Twilight Beach the sun is beginning to win and the sea is becoming blue. We stop and talk to a couple and then find out they know Javea well as they have a place out in Murcia, by the time we have finished discussing campsites and places to visit, the cloud has gone and we see Twilight Bay in all its glory, no wonder it won best beach in 2006......
We carry on doing the other 6 beaches, all of which Esperance is proud of before setting off to the Kepwari Wetland Walk Trail. It's down a gravel road overlooking a lake so we stop here for lunch and although the sun has gone it's still bright. Now officially birdwatchers are called 'Twitchers' and some conjure up the picture of 'Anorak's'. Well all I can say is After this afternoon, I now have half membership to the club, so just call me Twit and boy could I have done with an Anorak..........
We set off in shorts, t shirt, sports sandals and camera, I leave the camera case with its built in waterproof cover in the van and after 35 mins of walking through what can only be described as dead bushland we come across a bird hide and take a seat inside. After a while there is quite a lot of activity on the lake, especially when two eagles fly overhead, never seen so many ducks poo themselves so rapidly....... And then, Pitter patter on the roof of the hide, I remember that sound I say and look at the lake to see it's raining, just slightly so a decision is made to wait it out before calling it a day and rearming to the van.
It starts to Thunder, it continues to thunder only now with lightning, the rain gets heavier, the sky gets darker and the noise on the roof gets louder........ We wait ten minutes and then decide it's got to be done, so camera up t shirt and out we go, it begins to ease, oh Thank you, Mother Nature and then, well if we had stayed in the hide we would now be deaf, it buckets down and continues to do so, not only for the next 20 minutes that it took us to get back to the van but an hour or so after that. Once back to the van at least we could strip off, dry, change and hopefully save our electronics (cameras & phone). The van is all steamed up so after a five minute blower on the Windows we realise we cannot see much further due to the amount of rain, however we start our journey along the gravel road which is now a mini river, we manage to climb up a small hill but then when we look down the other side there are huge channels now gushing with water, they weren't there earlier my co pilot states as we quickly drive to one side with two wheels basically in the bush and the van at an angle of at least 40 degrees...... We survive and find a sealed road, it's sealed but has no drains as it runs off into the lake so we are making waves so to speak until we join a main road. Phew you might think, that's better as we did until you realise, that at this moment in time there are now basically only three types of driver on the road,
1. Those driving as we were at a reduced speed, with care, but driving.
2. Those that have panicked and have simply stopped at the side of the road causing an obstruction to driver no 1.
3. The 4x4 moronic dickhead who belts about, mainly to the side of the road where the water is deepest so as to make the biggest splash possible........
It's just gone 4pm but I'm heading down the center of a two lane road making it one lane to somewhere I know we can park, hopefully not many people, we can have a drink and with luck dinner, we go to the bar in the Port, park up and give a sigh of relief as we venture out to get wet all over again. It's an early dinner for us but the deluge turns into simple raining and then drizzle, we get back to camp and surprise surprise no one is using the laundry. We soon put the machines to good use when it's starts thunder and lightning again, now we just hope the washing/drying cycle finishes before we have a power cut..........
Our lunch time company.
Dead bush walk
Twilight Beach Rocks
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