As today was Sunday and we had been unable to locate a church to attend in Esperance we listened to the second podsast on Exodus from Simon Manchester to start the day.

After morning tea Dave was noted to be cleaning the Pearl’s interior with baby wipes – polishing the steering wheel and getting into the cracks around the gearstick – definitely taking a leaf out of Rose’s books!

Trev tried to outdo him by demonstrating the “Pink Clean” on the Serenity with his colour coordinated mitt…

We decided as the weather was unexpectedly fine that we would drive out to Lucky Bay in Cape Range National Park. The views along the way provided a snapshot of life around Esperance – farms with large homes, islands in the distance, cattle and rocky hills…. And the landscape was mostly arid with not a lot of trees – rather scrubby native bushes.

After entering the national park we drove past Frenchman’s Hat an interesting rocky hill so named as it looked somewhat like a French beret (?)

We stopped at Thistle Cove first and had a look/ listen to the singing rock – a large rectangular wave shaped rock that “sung” as the wind blew past it.

The rock platforms were smooth and gently sloped, so we walked across and down to the sea edge to take some pics – Rose very cautious NOT to do a Klaus and navigated her way around carefully – it could have been a very wet ending if she had not taken care to look down!

Thistle Cove itself was a beautiful white sand/ turquoise water beach surrounded by rocky platforms at each end – very picturesque and private.

At the carpark we bumped into Trevor Homes again… must be following us around!

After taking some pics we moved on to Lucky Bay and drove the cars down onto the beach. Matt and Sharon left the Subi in the carpark not wanting to get it’s feet wet and sandy… so jumped into the Pearl with Rose and Dave.

Lucky Bay is a truly beautiful place – gorgeous white silky sand and turquoise water with rocky islands in the distance.

We drove about halfway along the beach and stopped for some time to swim and relax. Trev and I went in for a swim – it was a bit cooler than yesterday but still lovely.

While we swam the others walked along the beach and Gordie got organised for a surf even though the waves were small for the most part.

Trev put up the drone and got some amazing footage of the surrounds and of Gordie on his board….

The water from above looked pristine and crystal clear – and no sealife in sight (probably a good thing!)…

After some time relaxing on the beach we eventually packed up – much to Dave’s surprise there seemed to be a leakage from some unidentifiable source again….

We drove back and stopped at the Lucky Bean coffee van for a coffee on the beach – a few lucky protagonists got the very comfy beach chairs!!

We noticed again the change in weather and a storm brewing – the wind had picked up and was cold so we drove back to camp and put on our roasts for the group Sunday roast planned for tonight.

Everyone gathered in the camp kitchen for a feast – roast lamb, pork and chicken with broccoli, roast veges, gravy and apple sauce – delicious.

Matt was in his carnivore element with so much meat on offer he made the most of it and went back for seconds.

Beryl’s crumble was legendary and everyone really enjoyed it as the finishing touch to a gourmet meal!

As we had a 500+km day journey ahead of us tomorrow, everyone went and did some packing up in preparation for our departure from Esperance at 0700.