Esperance, by Apple maps pronounced as
‘Es-per-Anne-sea’, is showing it doesn’t like people with self-contained
motorhomes to park in any spot that is not a caravan park. But not all parks
like to welcome dogs, and we do not want to pay for some shabby campground
either. So the first day we are looking for any bit of car park or street where
council forgot to put up the ‘No Camping’ sign. No luck, so we try to find a
very quiet street in some industrial part near the harbor, where luckily no-one
stops to fine us. It is a fitting introduction to WA, where this is all we are
going to get. Pay or go away.
I (Christel) have seen a YouTube clip about
making string Easter eggs by dipping string in liquid starch, then wrap it
around a balloon, let it dry, let the air out of the balloon and then voilà, easy as, you have your Easter Egg
decoration. I have come to learn you should not trust YouTube instructors with
perfect styled hair, clean hands and no mess. Furthermore: I find out that
liquid starch is not something that is regularly sold in any supermarket in
Es-per-Anne-sea. The craft shops sells me modpodge, it should work.
Finally we settle for
some powder starch and fabric stiffener, and test the three different products
with very disappointing results I must say.
Es-per-Anne-sea
revenges itself after the no-liquid-starch debacle, by advising us to go to
Lucky Bay. What a beautiful spot on Earth. The weirdest whitest sand, kangaroos
hopping on the beach, some nice surf waves for beginners,
Second day in Lucky
Bay all the children set out for a bit of a snorkel trip with Jolmer, but the
weather is not fantastic and the ones in short wetsuits get cold quickly.
Something we need to fix.
Finally we shall
remember Esperance for its extraordinary fish-leather business. We had done
some tanning of a few hides in Barham before we left, but never could have
pictured tanning fish skins. It makes some wonderfully weird products, not pretty
per se, but odd at least.
