Esperance WA Western Australia
Australia
12
Cruises availables
At departure or passage at this port
Norwegian Cruise Line (2 Cruises)
Silversea Cruises (1 Cruises)
Frequently Asked Questions
Ships anchor in the bay and tenders land passengers at the Taylor Street Jetty pontoon, a few minutes' walk from the main street. Landings therefore depend on sea conditions.
Yes, the whole town is walkable. The foreshore esplanade runs for several kilometres along the bay and the shopping street is one block back, with its coffee roasters, surf shops and local artists' galleries.
A coastal loop of about forty kilometres west of town: Twilight Beach with its natural rock pool, the Observatory Point lookouts, West Beach and its surf, then the wind turbines of the Ten Mile Lagoon wind farm. It's the classic excursion of the call.
It is so fine and pure that it squeaks underfoot like cold snow, and it makes the water shift from turquoise to deep blue. Several beaches along this coast regularly rank among Australia's finest.
Yes, in Cape Le Grand National Park, about sixty kilometres away. Lucky Bay is famous for the kangaroos that lounge on the sand. Allow a good half day, and bear in mind the kangaroos keep their own schedule.
A scatter of about a hundred granite islands and a thousand islets off Esperance, named after a ship of the French d'Entrecasteaux expedition that passed here in 1792. Half-day cruises leave from the Taylor Street Jetty to see fur seals, Australian sea lions, dolphins and sea eagles.
Because the American space station came down over the region in 1979. The municipal museum keeps pieces of it and tells the story with typically Australian humour: the local council symbolically fined NASA for littering.
Yes, on the beaches of the coastal loop, notably Twilight Beach with its natural rock pool. The water stays bracing even in summer: this faces the Southern Ocean, not the tropics.
The southern summer, November to March, for the beaches and the light. Southern winter and spring bring the southern right whales instead, which the whale-tail sculpture near the jetty announces without overstating the case.
Maximum. The Australian UV index is unforgiving, even in a cool breeze. Hat, sunglasses and sunscreen are essential, particularly on the exposed beaches of the coastal loop where there is no shade at all.
