Booking Campsites Coral Coast and Kimberleys

On such trips, that flexibility you mention is of huge value in my view.....and you should be still able to see and do 90% of what you'd ideally like to experience up there, if not more. Armed with a phone, the internet, maps and books, you'll find heaps of opportunities. Oh ....and.....once you've been all the way along the WA coast (especially the top half), you might not want to come home.....what a region ! .....(a suggestion ?.....have a snorkel / swim with the tropical fish in the shallows at South Mandu beach....Ningaloo reef......cape Range national park....park entry $ alone gets you there....you can swim all day !). The Bungles might be a phone ahead issue though....the rangers will soon advise you on that.

We booked our site at Cape Range National Park in Osprey campground some months ahead and stayed in June a couple of years ago. All other places we phoned ahead either a day or two, or up to a fortnight before, and managed to get into anywhere we wanted.
Stayed in all kinds of places, in national Parks, free and low cost camps, stations, and also van parks depending on what was available in the area, and whether it was convenient to what we wanted to see and do there.

We were towing a 20 ft full height van so couldn't just fit into any site.

It's so difficult to plan how long you want to stay in a place until you get there, also depends on the weather.

We are off to WA again, leaving NSW in mid April. Looking forward to it soo much now I can hardly wait!

regards,
Heather

Hi, travelled through the Kimberleys last June/July in our Trak Shak camper. Only one place we could not get a site. Mornington Wilderness Camp along the Gibb River Road. Very nice by what we heard so probably would not hurt to book.Broome was busy to but ended up finding something.

Can recommend Fitzroy River Lodge campground.

Enjoy your travels. Great part of the Country.

Cheers Gary

in cape range there is 2 campsites south of yardie creek, I found the ones North were full with lineups and the 2 south were totally empty as in not just fairly empty or relativly empty i mean TOTALLY

If you want to get in to Cape Range I strongly suggest you take a look at the WA Department of Parks and Wildlife website. When I looked at it the other day it seemed that currently there are only 4 or 5 campgrounds available in the Park, and all require booking on line. You can book up to 6 months in advance and not less than 2 days in advance. Not sure why their web site has such little information but they did have a severe flood event there last year, and such is their management, or lack thereof, things have obviously still not been sorted properly. I have sent them an email but they have not replied as yet. That said, Cape Range is a must see and go to place, and really the best way of doing that is to be able to camp inside the park, although as suggested Yardie Homestead caravan park is a good fall-back position. Have a great trip and remember that there is the Pilbara between the Coral Coast and the Kimberley.
Cheers,
mike.

Don't forget to go inland on the west coast. Millstream & Karijini are place not to be missed. Karijini does get busy but can stay in the overflow if worst comes to worst and you could easily stay a week if you are tight on time.

Neil

Thanks for the tip about Millstream!