After a long couple of days driving across the Nullarbor it was good to relax in Norseman for the night. The next morning we checked out the Iron Camels on the main street symbolising the camel trains that were used to cross the nullarbor in the olden days. Apparently there are 400,000 wild camels in the outback and we couldn't even see one crossing Australia.
It was a short drive to Esperance (only a couple of hundred k's) and we were there in no time. Before checking into the caravan park we had a walk up the main street and found the Esperance bakery. It was time for a mid-morning snack. I began with one of their meat pies. It was a struggle to get that as the girl serving me couldn't understand what a meat pie was and I had to repeat myself three times. Lets just say she wasn't a local. The pie served was delicious, oval in shape (thank god for no square pies) and juicy in the middle with the beef and gravy. It was demolished in no time. Starting to realise that the secret to a great pie is the temprature. No good having the best tasting filling if you spend most the time blowing on it to cool. The right temperature can even make a bad pie taste good. It was good to have found some high scoring pies again and this got a 7/10, just behind the Hanna's Pie in Sydney.
After the pie I had to try one of their vanilla slices (washed down with a masters choc). Now they had two kinds of slices vanilla and french vanilla. Vanilla have a pink topping while french have a white topping. When I was in albany I asked the baker what the difference was and it's the texture of the custard. Vanilla slices are much denser which I prefer. Now the pink vanilla slice reminded me of the one's I would get in high school. It was delicious and I have to say they should be entering it into the Australian Vanilla Slice contest as it was better than the runner-up I tasted in Mildura.
With 3 days in Esperance it was spent relaxing with minimal driving. We checked out the beaches in Twilight Cove (which had won best beach in australia). Heidi got her swimming gear on but I don't think she like the cold water. If you haven't been to Esperance you need to go as they are the best beaches I've seen. Pure white sand with turquoise blue water, you haven't seen anything like it. Later that day we walked along tanker jetty and saw sammy the seal. Unfortunately when we went to Lucky Bay it was very windy and we didn't see any Kangaroos sunbathing on the beach.
After a few days of relaxing and doing nothing it was time to hit the road again and head to our next stop being Albany. We only have a few more stops to go and I was looking forward to getting to Denmark to try what people say is the best pie in the country.
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