Perth Beach 4wd access - My Impressions from a brief tourists point of view.
Vowed I'd never go back to
Perth in summer, so it should have been with relief that our recent 4 day stay began in march.
It was a lovely 22 degree
Melbourne day when we left, however on approach
to
perth the pilot said it would be 42 and getting warmer for our 4 day stay.
Turned out that it was a record march heatwave with every day over 42
and it was to hot to even be on
the beach.
We decided to drive as close to coast as we could north from
Perth in an attempt
to find first real beach 4wd access point from
Perth.
My memory was that it was at
Yanchep, but this place had changed massively
in last 10 years and was now either wall to wall suburbs or suburbs in the making
with lots of "No access $1000 dollar" fine signs.
Got outta there as quick as we could, proceeding along the coast to
Two Rocks.
Again no real access, except we found a short unmarked track just south of the marina.
Would have loved to
check it out more throughly however it smelt so bad
near the main
rock that my wife wouldn't get out of the car so off we
went again.
We only had the "QPA" road map book which was ok but at a 1:250,000 scale
and there was no real detail.
Another hour or two later we arrived at Moore river area at
Guilderton
and a very pretty little inlet it was to.
Had a lovely sandbar preventing access to the sea, and a "No vehicle on beach"
sign.
However just on north side of town near a
lighthouse we saw a
sign that made the whole drive worth while.
It read "Shared
Beach access " and had picture of car and people
but strangely added "No Trail Bikes".
A lovely set of wheel tracks meandered north along
the beach and out of sight.
Don't see much of this in Vic.
Note - From Moore river
lookout we noticed wheel tracks south of the inlet and imagine that there are back roads to coast south of
Guilderton.
There are probably lots of holes in this little tourist level report
and it would be great if some west aussies could fill in the gaps.
Robin Miller