Mon 19 Sep 2011 Esperance

1030 (17423 km) Breakfast of toast and cereal. Went to Visitor Centre. Went on the Great Ocean Drive. Had a quick look at West Beach. It was very windy. Walked up the steps to Observatory Point. It was definitely a good view but very windy. We had difficulty walking down the steps. The wind was so strong that it was difficult to breathe! Stopped at Twilight Beach. Just a little offshore was an interesting rock with a large cave in it. If the water was warmer, we could have swam out to it. Had a quick look at 10 mile lagoon. There appeared to be a line of rocks about 20 metres from shore that created what looked like a lagoon. Then the rain started and we ran back to the car. Drove to Pink Lake and found that it wasn't pink. The pink is caused by a combination of an alga that has beta-carotene (same colouring that is found in carrots) and bacterium that is pink.

1245 (17466 km) Lunch of porridge.

1430 (17466 km) Adventureland. Climbed over the whale and ran around the maze. It was a small maze, nothing like some of the other big mazes we had been to.

1445 (17468 km) Tanker Jetty.  Went fishing and caught 3 fish. A Yellowtail Scad and two Herrings. Sammy the sealion, who lives under the jetty, was very excited and came to greet us when we were leaving the jetty. He swam around and poked his head up. Apparently he waits there in the late afternoon when fishermen leave the jetty with their catches. There's a fish cleaning station at the end of the jetty and he waits next to it waiting for fish or fish bits to be thrown to him.

1700 (17472 km) Cooked the fish we caught, some crumbed fish and hash brown for dinner. It was good to have fresh fish but the Herrings were not the yummiest of fish.

2000 (17475 km) Filled up.

2015 (17476 km) Fishing again by night. Caught 8 fish in 30 minutes. MH even caught 2 fish at a time on his 2 hooks. HM tried squidding again but there were still no squids. Fed 3 fish to Sammy the Sea Lion. Sammy was really animated and looked forward to his feed.

2045 (17478 km) Back at caravan park.

Herrings on the BBQ