We are woken by a vivid apricot coloured dawn over a gentle surf breaking on pure white sand. Kangaroos are bounding through the camp and small bushland birds and some not so little are checking out campsites for morsels. We visit a few sites in the park before heading off to Esperance, each one a stunning vista of heath spilling over granite that plunges into deep sapphire blue water. The park is a natural wonderland and the amenities clean and of high quality and rangers actually exist here and talk and chat.

We are in Esperance for morning tea to plan the route for the day. We travel the Ocean drive, what beautiful beaches many frequented by surfers. The drive takes us past the Pink Lake then back onto the highway. We continue west, dropping into Stokes Inlet for lunch, an interesting enclosed water body bounded by paperbarks and heath, fed by the Young and Lort Rivers. Its a haven for fish and birds.

We continue west dropping down into Fitzgerald National Park, our campsite is below a massive collection of granite hills with surf breaking behind us only a few hundred metres away. A kangaroo pays us a visit. Stars are blazing, giving way to sheets of clouds only to return and so the cycle repeats.