We woke to a glorious morning with blue sky and beautiful sunrise. After the usual morning routine we headed off on a tourist boat or a cruise to the outlying islands of which there are some 140.
These islands are a wildlife paradise, we saw Fur Seals, Cape Baron Geese and Dolphins. The skipper also fed the resident sea eagles which were already waiting for their fish.
The boat berthed at one of the large islands called Woody Island were we stopped for a break and a bit of a walk up to a lookout. On the way back to Esperance Alexander got a bit of career advise from the skipper so he can map out his path to Master Class 5 ticket.
Back on land we had a quick lunch and then continued onto Mermaid Leather, one of a handful of companies around the world that make leather from fish skins. Fascinating stuff, very interesting and pretty unique. The owner of this business is also an expert on sharks and imparted some great facts about shares to us. I never knew that sharks had two very large livers - and they don't even drink! Those livers change the viscosity of the liver oil which sharks use to regulate their buoyancy - apparently all other species use air, similar to scuba divers.
We bought a few pieces of fish leather to take home for show and tell.
The kids and I went fishing while Ilse did some food shopping before we retired to our caravan for the night.
Tomorrow I'll try and get a wire in the car replaced and if all goes well we'll move our caravan to Lucky Bay (Cape LeGrand) for a couple of nights. There is no phone or power at Lucky Bay but we should be back in range by Saturday when we move to Hyden and then onto Perth.
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