Esperance Day 53

Monday 24^th September  

Today we decided to go to Arid National Park as this is the place the guy was telling Paul about the whales.  We arrived at  Tagon Bay around 9:00am and the wind was up and the water had lots of white caps.   We sat for awhile and Pete decided to bang rocks together to see if this would bring in the whales he gave up so I took over.  We wandered over to some other rocks and did the same there and after awhile we did see a couple of whales making their way towards us.

Took lots of photos and every time we turned away to head back to the other rocks they would leap out of the water and we would miss the best shots.  Back on the first lot of rocks we started out on we started banging the rocks again and the whales came in closer and just floated onto which was really strange. It was not 12:00 and we made our way back to the cars and found somewhere to have lunch.

We drove around to Cape LeGrand National Park and had a look at the beaches there really nice.  This is where Kerry & Nev decided to stay the night and meet us the next day.  We called into another beach and they boys decided to take a short cut back to camp along the beach.  

Instead of taking ½ hr it took 3hrs as we had to get off the beach as the sand was very soft and make our way through a very narrow track and swamp.  It was getting dark and I thought we would never get out and have to sleep the night, but finally we did and back to town to find some dinner.  What an adventure for the afternoon I think the boys were having fun Stan did get bogged at one water crossing.