Esperance

We've been here in Esperance WA for the last week and leave tomorrow, heading back east. We really loved it here, it has the whitest beaches in Australia and plenty of them.

 View from the back window of our van

 We really liked this exact replica of Stonehenge near Esperance. It was built over 9 months from locally quarried Pink Granite, and has 137 stones.  It was very peaceful wandering through it.

 Graeme sitting on the 9 tonne altar stone

 Pink Lake- bushfires about 30 kms away

 Grae hooning on the dry lakebed

 Bushfire smoke, taken from 9 mile beach.  The next day Esperance was shrouded in thick smoke the next morning and everything was covered in ash.

 Another enjoyable happy hour

 Frenchman's Peak at Le Grand National Park,and below the park's beaches,where you can drive on the sand for miles.

 From our back window, cruise ship visiting for the day.

Perth Kalgoorlie and Norsman

Some views of Perth/Freemantle

 Freemantle port

 One of our favorite places, Little Creatures brewery and pub

Getting my hair done, caravan style

 Christmas day in Perth, my niece Carla feeding my great niece Harley with big sister Ali

 Meeting my cousin Jim Longman and his wife for the first time

 Jim & Clem Longman, on New Years Day

 The Kalgoorlie Super Pit, hard to describe how massive it is (goldmine)

 Kalgoorlie has some beautiful buildings, above, inside the town hall

 Kalgoorlie Museum, below the view from the top

 Australia's oldest working brothel, over 100 years old.

 In Norseman tonight, on our way to Esperance on the coast.  Norseman is the only Australian town named after a horse, after the horse found gold here;  he went lame and his owner found gold bearing quartz in his hoof