Saturday, Mar 15, 2003 at 00:08
Hi Lozza,
Calm is basically right, but with low enough pressures, the
hill is ok.
The seaweed is worst where the coast runs n-s (closest to Israelite), and lessens as one goes east. Last trip, (12 mths ago) we kept to the high side and walked some of it to be safe. To run in the wet is too risky, as there are in
places 1m high walls of seaweed at the water's edge, and one could only get around them when the waves are out (extreme sports??). One cannot get onto
the beach till about 20km from Israelite coz of rocks. But from the entry point, there is a track just back from
the beach which follows the coast for some distance when heading east, and if one can stay on this till it runs out, you miss a fair bit of the seaweed. There are several entry points from this track to
the beach. It's really only the first few kms after hitting
the beach, then you have another 80km of fabulous sand.
Have done it alone, but better to have other vehicles.
Also meant to mention, drop in at
Thomas River (Cape Arid NP) for a few days on the way out to Israelite from
Esperance, the Calm
campsite there is fab, and the view from the dunny at sunrise is a million bucks. And if you have time, north to Mt Ragged, also in the NP.
rgds Gerry
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