Esperance

Today is a big day...Justin and Annette's wedding!!!

I was awake at 5 and couldn't get back to sleep so I thought I may as well finish off this post that has been sitting around for who knows how long!

So here are the rest of the photos from the holiday we took at the end of last year...and a few notes about our holiday...

Esperance: 28 December2009 - 8 January 2010

• Esperance has the most whitest beaches and amazing colour water (which is also very cold!) - it is just sooo pretty there!
  
• we experienced 2 very hot days - the second day we were there it was 42C, and we thought that was bad... a week later we had a day of 47C!!! Now that is a heat I've never felt before. And it was still 40C at 9pm! Not much sleeping happened that night.
  

• generally it's pretty windy in Esperance, they don't have wind farm there for nothing! But Ed and Evette (who we went with), have been there twice before and they said this time was definitely the windiest. We had to go out early to the beach, because the wind picks up around 10am and then it's not so pleasant to be there.

• Devon was a bit of a nightmare when it came to the sleeping department...The first few nights he slept till about 4/4:30am and wouldn't want to go back to sleep unless I fed him. But as the week went by, he woke up earlier and earlier and then it'd take a bit to get him back to sleep. And if he woke up around 3/3:30, he'd be a wake again at 5am and not want a bar of going back to sleep, so Rod ended up taking him for a walk every morning at 5! Sometimes he slept again, other times he didn't. So, even though this sounds ungrateful, it really wasn't such a relaxing holiday.
  

• Ed and Evette were the best company to have along. They have two kids as well, Tegan who is 3 1/2 and Corey who is 1 1/2, - good playmates for Olivia and Devon.

On the road again... we left around 6am and arrived
around 3pm and the kids were champs in the car!



our usual setup on the beach

Ed and Evette took their clam shells and play pen which
was so handy to have on the beach

Evette and Corey
Tegan and Olivia playing hairdressers and 'eyebrow ladies' in our camper

We were going to use this box as a cot, but of course he could pull himself up to stand
by this time, making it not so safe.
He did fall out of it once...luckily onto the couch first and then the floor.

another beach, another day

Rod and Ed trying their hand at some fishing but got nothing

amazing sand dunes there

Ed stuck on a ridge...

trusty Patrol will pull the Prado out

New Years Eve with my uncle and aunt who also happened
to be in Esperance at the time, but in a different caravan park

aaaww, he loves me :-)

now doesn't that just look like a piece of Paradise?
Surely this will convince you to come visit us Marian!


roo on the beach

Olivia and Tegan playing happily

Corey bear

another day, another beach...

Rod going for an early morning dip

out for brekky one morning

Ed and Evette

girls enjoying their breakfast

nothing beats vegemite toast, hey Corey!

on our last day, I took Devon for a walk and
got to see this sunrise

having a stop at a little country town on the way to Albany

Olivia just had to have a swing :-)