Cream tea and strawberries in Esperance

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We made it to this outpost of civilisation, 426km east of Albany, via a night camping in the Fitzgerald River National Park, at a reasonable time for once and celebrated with scones, jam, cream, strawberries and tea/hot chocolate in the caravan park (Brits on holiday!)
 
Tomorrow we explore Esperance and Cape Le Grand, about 50km east - meant to have great beaches, so hopefully the clouds will clear up.
 
Love Karen

A trip to the treetops

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Also a couple of days delayed...the same day as our visit to the brewery but a bit further on and refreshed by free coffee at the driver reviver stop on the highway, staffed by two nice old locals who didn't have much else to do on Easter Sunday. Just outside the small town of Walpole, heading east along the coast towards Denmark, lies the Valley of the Giants Treetop Walk among the tingle and karri trees (marri and jarrah are the other 2 local trees - sounds to me characters from a kid's TV show). They grow to a good 60-85m high and the canapy walk was specifically designed to sway...no place for someone with motion sickness, vertigo or a fear of heights...we enjoyed it!
 
Love Karen

Nick the lush...attempt 2

Currently in Margaret River wine region of Western Australia. Tried to go and sample a few local vintages on Good Friday only to discover that was the one day of the year that its illegal to serve alcohol in Oz... :-(

 Made up for it on Saturday though... And Karen was driving ;-)

 Nick

 P.s. Thanks for the tips Ian!

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