Careful what you wish for.....just a little too arid for us in the Goldfields, couldn't wait to get to Esperance - beautiful beaches and refresh with a subtle sea breeze.

Well it's fresher for sure, but temperatures as low as 14 (mid summer), blustering cold winds and endless rain is what we've found here. Waiting patiently for mail to be delivered (some of Lola's school books), we have extended our stay daily, up to a full week. Even if the mail arrives on Monday, we still can't leave Esperance toward the west as nothing is coming in or out there due to flood waters, Norseman bound is the only exit.

A lovely little park, with nice shady trees and privacy and we are cabin bound - the patter of rain idyllic for a day or two, but several days on not fun when living in a bus.

Esperance boasts beautiful beaches, where we had one great day 4wd'ing in the sand dunes, along the white sands admiring turquoise waters. We beach drove from Esperance end through to Cape Le Grand. There was a few treachourous patches where smarter folk as unprepared as us would have turned back, but with Brad's impressive skill at the wheel while holding on to his breath we made it through unscathed and without the Suzuki being washed away in the rising tide. Great fun.

There is not much to do in Esperance on multiple rainy days.