Hi everyone
We had a lovely time at
Hopetoun only 2 nights. We stayed at the caravan park but boy! was it noisy. The park was chockers and alot of partying people. I have a new appreciation for the free
parking out of towns :) The Caravan Park is owned by a couple called Leonie and Phil who have owned the park for 6 years. They were fairly disorganised with bookings as they couldn't find ours and we sat in limbo waiting for them to decide to let us in. Said something about the other Caravan Park using a name similar to theirs and causing them alot of problems however the other park is called Wave Resort or something like that. Wave resort is inland about 8 kms out of north of town.
Hopetoun Caravan Park is in an ideal spot right on
the beach but protected by the dunes. Will put some further info on the "Places" tab along with photos.
Apparently, the folk lore for
Hopetoun is “
Easter rains”.
Well it did for the first day(dry enough to set up
camp though) but the second day was pretty close to perfect. But wouldn’t you know it there was too much seaweed to fish for salmon and apparently the only people catching salmon were people with boats out in deeper water. Bummer! There goes one of the things I set out to do, then we set out for
Ravensthorpe where I heard there was some Tourmaline spotted in an
old quarry some years back but low and behold the only things we kept seeing was “Active Mining” signs. There goes two of the things planned to do. So then we decided to go for a drive up the scenic look out at
Ravensthorpe now that was beautiful and
well worth the trip. Used my camera for a panorama shot which I had just learnt recently. Got some great shots! Had hoped to catch up with family I hadn’t seen for about 10 years but they were all out of town for
Easter. My surprise back fired :(
We forgot the doona and would have froze but, thank God, I had brought a 12 volt electric blanket 12 mths ago and had never used it and it was already on the bed so needless to say it got a good work out over the two nights. It was fantastic! And saved the day.
Got to see and photograph a Wedge Tailed Eagle up close also. So all in all we had a great short stay. I awoke to what I thought was my alarm but it was a little bird. Right on
cue 6.00 am the little stinker. Somebody must have trained him.
Hamersley Road which takes you from
Hopetoun through the Fitzgerald National Park was closed also. That was another point of the trip that failed. Oh
well, just means I'll have to do it again..yipee!!
Cheerio
Dirt