Esperance to Fitzgerald Never again...

We started to drive west we arranged to meet Ben and Tanja at the Fitzgerald National park.

We had spoken to a lady in the tourist office in Ravensthrope and she told us that we would love this camp site, so we took her word for it and decided to take the trip down there. She also mentioned that there is a quieter camp site which is a few more minutes down the sound road.

We followed our trusted map again, this time we didn't take the short route we decided to stick to the main roads. Once we turned off the South Coast Highway we drove straight on to and unsealed road. This is going to be fun we thought. One and half hours drive until we reach, the camp site.

45 minutes after driving down the dirt track going up and down hills, having the biggest kangaroo jump out on us, 2 emu decided they wanted to see who we was and run out in front of us and decided to stare us out, and a few lizards crossing the road we finally got to the entrance to the national park. We didn't have to register ourselves into the park as we have a WA national parks pass. So we picked up some maps and info on the park and started to drive again. The time was about 5pm and the sun was going to start to coming down within a few hours. We still have another 45minutes until we reached the campsite. Since we turned off the highway we seen not a single car.

Once we reached the campsite there was no one there. There was no other car tracks around the camp site, no foot prints just kangaroo prints, a few snake markings, spider webs and bird foot prints. There was a BBQ with a picnic table and a drop dunny. We took a look at the toilet and it was pretty clean and smelt OK, in their was the biggest spider remains! There was a bucket the the right of the toilet with a handle from a toilet brush just peeping over the rim of the bucket, from a distance the handle looked like a a snakes head.

Aimee wasn't feeling this campsite, she started to scare herself and the slightest creek she would jump out of her skin which then made me jump. I suggested that we take the road to the next campsite to see if there is anyone at that one. We drove only for a few minutes passing another 2 kangaroo's, and this campsite was just the same. All the campsites needed was a bit of fog and you had a brilliant set for a scary movie.

We was not staying at this campsite. No way Jose. So we both made the executive decision to drive to the next town to stay in a campsite there. Two and half hours later, we reached the next small town. Their campsite was closed. Gutted they lay by was packed, the only thing we could do is take the last room in the motel. $85 dollars later we had a bed for the night with a hot shower and a TV and all the electricity we wanted.

All our gadgets had a good charge. We had a great sleep, and a great shower.