Interesting day today we decided to visit Duke of Orleans which is a bay 88kms east of Esperance. Unfortunately not the best day to visit as it was very overcast and cool. Starting to wonder how many warm days Esperance has! So off we went, picnic onboard for a scenic day out. About halfway to the bay the road changed to gravel and about 10kms away we blew a tyre, the tyre actually overtook us! Luckily John realised what was happening early in the dilemna and pulled over. This is our second tyre in 3 weeks! We only bought the spare when we were in Kalgoorlie. None of us have ever seen a tyre blow quite like this. Needless to say we are getting 4 new tyres tomorrow. We continued on to the bay and we were glad we did - even though we didnt' see it at its best due to the weather it really is very lovely, more rugged than the beaches in the national parks. Again the beaches are so white!! We braved morning tea in a semi protected bay (see pic). There are so many banksias in this area, they are quite lovely particularly as on one side of the road they were flowering in various stages and on the other they had been burnt by fire. There is a caravan park near the bay that we checked out, it was not bad and unbelievably there weren't any tourists. I am sure school holidays is a different matter. 
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