We had no camp to pack up so we were on the road by 8am. We stopped at the shell shop in Norseman to refuel (cheapest fuel in town!) and they offered free coffee. So we filled our mugs and were on our way.

Esperence is very much a beachside town, similar to Poole but not as nice. We took a 56km drive to the Cape Le Grand National park, where some of the nicest beaches in the country are. The beaches were beautiful. Snow white sand and brilliant turquoise waters.

It was unfortunate that the school holidays had just started and the camping areas were overflowing with campers. We took one look and trotted off outta there.

We stayed the night in an Esperence camping ground where we met this nice couple that have been caravanning around Australia for 30 years. Well not continuously. They know all the tricks and told us about free camping. Apparently there are loads of places you can free camp in Australia. They had come down from Brisbane and free camped all the way. This was their first night in paid accommodation. I really wish I had known about this before hand, we would have saved a fortune.

As we are on a very tight budget now (due to spending too much in the first half of the journey) we went out and bought the Camps 4 Australia wide book they recommended. It has all the places to camp, including free camps. We have stopped and looked at a few places and some of them look quite good. Usually there are no facilities, but sometimes there are toilets. We have potti so we are fairly self-sufficient.

We might try one out tonight.