Jamaliah found a direct route on the map to Bremer bay. In December you can make a boat trip to see Orca’s. Unfortunately the Orca’s are only expected to arrive end December. Instead we drove along the very white sandy beaches of the town. The cold wind  was blowing hard and there was not much sunshine. So no swimming in the sea today. After stopping for coffee, hot chocolate, muffin and croissant at the ex telegraph office we drove back to Hwy 1  and continued going East. Along the way we saw miles and miles of wheat fields. Only farms. No more trees.

After today’s total of 345 km, we arrived in Ravensthorpe and stopped at the town free campsite.  The town has a mining history starting with gold followed by copper. These underground mines are now closed. Around town you now see hills of rock dug up out of a nickel and a Lithium mine. The town has several building’s from the time of the gold rush. One modern attraction is street art. Ie paintings on grain silo’s. On another note there is a sobering memorial commemorating a massacre of many aborigines in 1880 following the killing of a settler who abused a local child.

We drove back to the coast at Hopetoun. You could drive all the way to the end of the jetty where you fill your drinkwater tank. Along the way we made several stops to take photos of the “Farm gate arts”.

The quiet town has several nice white sand beaches. Several are in the adjacent Fitzgerald Biosphere Park. We drove through the park and stopped at several of the lookouts and campsites. The flies were intense and it was too early to stop for the day. We therefore took the graded road east along the coast to this secluded commercial campsite along the beach. We put the chairs out on the beach and enjoyed watching the waves coming in on one side and the sun rays on the other. The wind keeps the flies away.