Time to say goodbye to Esperance and continue heading west. We followed highway 1 to Ravensthorpe, passing through cropland which gradually turned into arid bushland. The bugs were thick on the windscreen and we had to clean them off at Ravensthorpe.
We then headed south to check out the seaside town of Hopetoun and the eastern side of Fitzgerald River National Park. At the self-registration station we were greeted by some more Carnaby's Cockatoos that were flying around the tree tops about 200m away.
The road and car park facilities have been very recently upgraded and it looks like a lot of money has been spent on the park. We were mainly aiming on passing through for a look and weren't going to visit every nook and cranny. Besides, a couple of the beaches and access roads were closed due to either road construction work or because of the wet conditions (trying to minimise the spread of dieback). We exited the park via the dirt section of Hamersley Rd/West River Rd, and back onto the highway about 40km west of Ravensthorpe.
Continuing on Highway 1 south of Jerramungup we took a shorter route for Bremer Bay, heading for a campsite found on the map at Millars Point Reserve. We weren't too keen on the camping there because there was rubbish scattered around the place, so we moved in to Bremer Bay Caravan Park for the night.
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