We've been swimming at the beautiful Hopetoun beaches, going for bushwalks, chatting to Old grey nomada at the caravan park...they have everything plus the kitchen sink in their big caravans.

We've also been looking up the local history on our laptop. There was a terrible massacre of the local Nyoongars in the early 1880s and so the area from Ravensthorpe to Hopetoun is now bad country to the indigenous people. The white "pioneers" were really murderers....the Cocanarup Massacre drove Aboriginal people away.There is a place a couple of kms from Hopetoun called Culham Inlet near the entrance to the Fitzgerald National Park. When Dave and I stopped our bikes to have a look and take photos I felt overwhelmingly sad and started to cry, not understanding why. That is why we came back to camp and we looked up the local history of what happened in the 1880s...it was organised murder for a while. Apparently some of the poor Nyoongar survivers of the Cocanarup massacre near Ravensthorpe managed to get down to the Culham Inlet area near Hopetoun, and these survivors were then shot by the white "pioneers". This is shameful history, and explains why there are no Aboriginal folk in Hopetoun area; only their archeological sites that have been documented since, and a tragic oral history from a people who do not want to return. Why was this history never taught in schools when I was a kid? I am ashamed of white people sometimes and the word "pioneer" has a disgusting double meaning for me now.