Esperance was our first stop after driving across the Nullarbor and we had already heard a lot of the towns beauty beforehand. We tried desperately to find a free campground in or around Esperance, when we arrived late in the evening after crossing the Nullarbor, but we didn’t have any luck until later. So we stayed at Bushlands Caravan Park on our first night, the cheapest caravan park, we could find in Esperance. The next day we decided to move to Esperance Bay Caravan Park, which is probably the most boring campground, we’ve ever stayed at. Our unpowered site was right next to a big wall separating the campground from a big road. Although, I must say, that wall was surprisingly soundproof from all the traffic on the other side of the wall.

During our four days in Esperance, we both walked and drove down Twilight Beach Rd. If you’re just hanging around Esperance and don’t have the time to visit any of the national parks, then you should definitely either drive or walk Twilight Beach Rd. There is a walking trail all along the ocean, which you can enter at all the beaches, where you can also stop your car and have a look and a small walk along the beach. You’re lucky if you visit in summer! The turquoise water looked so nice and it was so tempting to jump in, but way to cold since spring had just started.

When we walked the Twilight Beach Rd, we also got a little “off-road” as we usually do. Instead of walking along the trail we like having some fun climbing the rocks. Paul especially enjoy climbing up the big ones and I enjoy staying on the ground and taking photos of him.

Around 1-2 hours from Esperance you find two national parks, Cape Arid and Le Grand. If you’ve heard about Lucky Bay or seen the famous pictures of kangaroos at a white beach, then Le Grand National Park is the place to go to. We would have loved to camp in the nationalpark, but unfortunately its quite expensive ($15 per person + $15 entrance fee), so we just went in there to have a stroll at Lucky Bay beach.

Lucky Bay is beautiful for sure. We didn’t see any kangaroos though. Maybe because all the cars driving up and down along the beach scares them off? Or maybe they are just all the way down the other end of the beach. Who knows. Instead of looking for roos, we had a hike up the rocks on the right. We found a spot where there was an incredible view of the bay. This is where Paul took the picture of me, which you see just above here.

If you don’t have time or money to visit Lucky Bay, don’t even mind. There are so many other (even more beautiful and white) beaches around Esperance and I dare to say that Lucky Bay is not the worlds most beautiful beach as some would say. You have a good chance of finding a “secret” beach, if you just have a drive around and try to avoid the popular tourist beaches. This is what we did, when we finally found a free campsite outside of the town. We spent our last two nights in Esperance close to the beach you see above here.

Naively we thought that WA would be covered in free campgrounds, even close to a town like Esperance, but we were wrong. You actually have to drive around 1 hour out of town in either direction to find somewhere you can sleep for free. So after spending quite a few nights in the city, we finally moved out of the city and camped in a beautiful beachy area.

At this campground we were alone and surrounded by white beaches and turquoise water. We spent our days having a long walk down a seemingly endless beach, playing cards, reading books, looking for crabs, enjoying the sunset and spotting dolphins. It was a very relaxing and quiet time, which we very much enjoyed after spending five nights in the middle of Esperance.