Esperance Ranches - Reviews and Rates

Esperance is a rather charming little port town on the South coast of WA. When we turned up though, it was a Sunday and everything was rather subdued (for which, you could substitute ‘closed’). We took a drive along the scenic Great Ocean Drive loop road, encompassing the beaches at Blue Haven, Twilight Cove and Picnic Beach, b...

Day 60-61 Balladonia to Grass Patch (Nullarbor completed) Thursday Jan 29th 2009 Arriving at Newman Rock from Balladonia only 70km down the track we were blown away to see this area in its best state - fresh water over the large expanse of granite rock area. It was teeming with animal poo, suggesting many had enjoyed refreshments after the recen...

Little bit behind here. Read this as it would have been, if I'd got my act together sooner. I spent the last week around the south-west, an area that is cooler (and much more habitable) than the searing heat of much of the continent. We went from Perth through Bussleton and along the south coast as far as Esperance (of the lead in the water pois...

Tour Day 3. Today we left early to get some picture postcard views of the town, Albany (which has no traffic lights! It's just never gets that busy.) Then telling us that the views would be worth it, our tour guide, Emma-Jane took deep into the Stirling Mountain range and said the next task was to climb Mount Treo. Needless to say the Irish Boys...

Since my last entry at Port Lincoln I have headed west and stayed one night at Streaky Bay, a lovely little town with a great pub. Just happened to be the Megga Chook Raffle which they have twice a year. Everyone was there and the bar was full and also full of smoke as you can sill smoke in pubs in SA - yuk. I bought a few tickets and felt lucky...

Our final four hours today took us back to civilisation. We were looking forward to a place at the end of Nullabour called Norseman that in the travel brochures looked a buzzy place for coffee and a break. There were several indications that it was not what we expected - you had to get a key from the visitors centre for the public toilets, sever...