DAY 57 24th September Esperance to Cape Le Grande NP

DAY 57

24th September
Esperance Cape Le Grande

We all headed out early for Thomas River in Cape Arid National Park as we have been told there are whales there that come up to rocks and look at you! Well, we were sceptical. We drove for an hour and a half to get to a beautiful beach but it was freezing cold and windy.

The water is crystal clear

 Walked out onto the rocks and saw nothing but white caps on the ocean. We were told to bang the rocks, so we did. Nothing! Then we saw a spurt so we climbed over more rocks to get closer. Wendy banged “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” she said it was that anyway!

 

Rocks went straight into the sea

WOW! What a magic experience! We saw about 6 whales all up. One started slapping his fins down on the water over and over and showing his tail until another whale swam right up to it and they almost touched each other.

Slapping fins on the water

 They played together for a while we could hear the noise of their spout and as we started moving back they followed us about 100m off shore. We banged rocks and one stayed still on top of the water and you could see his eye looking at us, he was close enough for us to see him blink. We watched for about half an hour as he followed us along as we walked back along the rocks. THIS WAS VERY SPECIAL! We will never know if the rocks worked or not but who cares!

                                            His eye was looking at us on the rocks

After 3 hours with the whales we went to Thomas River Camp ground for lunch. Then drove back to Cape Le Grande National Park to Lucky Beach the others had a quick look and headed off to Esperance and we stayed, walked on the beach and set up camp.

We camped right next to this beach

Great spot got talking to a young guy taking tours across the Nullabor he gave us some good tips for places to see on our way back.  As we cooked our snags a kangaroo with a joey watched on hoping to get a snack. We prefer this to a caravan park!