It’s a long way to Esperance. A full day’s drive from our home in Halls Head. But we’d be remiss if we didn’t take our German visitors to Lucky Bay … a beach recently listed as the #1 beach in the World (https://worlds50beaches.com/top-50-worlds-best-beaches/).

We wanted to give our guests, Heiko and Susanne, a full Aussie experience so we packed up the car with camping gear and headed for Fitzgerald River National Park. We set up a very comfy campsite and spent a couple of days by exploring the Hammersley Inlet and having a late afternoon climb up East Mount Barren.

Then off to Esperance where we spent a day in the Cape Le Grande National Park and hiked between Lucky Bay and Thistle Cove.

I plugged ‘Home’ into Google Maps and it guided us through some less travelled roads through Western Australia’s Wheatbelt. The wheat was ready to harvest and combines were out in numbers. We took a detour so Heiko and Susanne could do some inland surfing at Wave Rock. In eight hours of driving we could almost count the number of cars we encountered as we drove the back roads of WA. It was something our visitors appreciated since empty roads are a rarity in Europe.