Today was a travelling day. Before that we woke to a calm, warm and cloudless day for ANZAC Day in Albany.
History records that the first ANZAC Day Dawn Service was held in Albany on 25 April 1923 when Rev White led a group of friends in a moving dawn commemoration service to honour the men and women who had made the ultimate sacrifice for Australia. News of the simple and moving ceremony spread very quickly and the ANZAC Day Dawn Service became a national commemoration. Rev White was an Australian Army pastor who served in Europe during the First World War. We were here on the anniversary of the very day it all started.
After packing, breakfast and loading the car and we were off to Hopetoun. The trip today, via Jarramungup and Ravensthorpe covered 340km. We have found out that the suffix “up” means “place of” in regional Aboriginal language.
We made Jarramungup by 10:15am, just in time for the local ANZAC Day commemoration. We saw people coming to town for the service from all directions. The road to Jarramungup can be called a typical Australian road scene. Then to Ravensthorpe, which is a road junction on the way to Esperance. We planned an overnight stop at Hopetoun to break the journey and hoping to find a place to relax. There is a camel farm at Ravensthorpe.
Hopetoun was settled in 1901 and is a small but very beautiful and quiet place. Please share the views we had at lunch on the upper floor of the cafe in Hopetoun.
Then we toured the 12 mile beach and the 5 mile beach. At the 12 mile, we saw a rocky bar that has withstood the erosion that formed a quiet lagoon between the bar and the shore. At the 5 mile, the interest was in the formation of sandstone. The stone upon which we were standing was hard rock. The stone further up, whilst looking the same was sufficiently soft to be broken with the fingers and is easily eroded by water, as the photos show.
We relaxed for the short remainder of the afternoon.
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