West Coastal Christmas

monkey mia and dolphins are worth a look. not too pleasant when the wind is up though.

At that time of the year, around X-mas, you need to take the following into consideration if travelling by car.

1. Temperatures around 40c
2. Extremely high humidity
3. In the middle of the cyclone season
4. In the middle of the wet season, i.e. Roads blocked, Floodways.

Considering your dad is comming from a winter climate, he may not appreciate our weather at that time of the year.
Most areas will have a total fire ban in place, therefore no camp fires.
Wagoe is very basic, mainly suits fishermen, could also be booked out at that time of the year.
Hope I have not disappointed you too much
Cheers

there is a spot on the way to steep point that has camping and huts ....... also very cheap. went there last year and it was a magic place.

The place extfilm is talking about is probably Tamala station on the way to Steep Point--a nice spot but a long way of the main drag.Iwould consider 40 mile beach where you would have a big choice of campsites at that time of year and you could have your campfire and it is only 5 mins off the main drag.By the way the turnof is about 60km sout of Karatha.

Tamala is a nice spot out of shark bay if you have a small boat - stayed and fished there for a week or so some years back with Starlo, & others, had agreat time but it was August so the water was alittle chilly (but not for a pom!) ;o)

Also - if you want a little more sophisticated - then stay at Nanga station - they have showers and huts or tent sites as well as shop etc

They have large communal outdoor shelters (somewhere to get out of the sun and wind) and have various sheep on the spit nights and a camp oven night where you can get a feed and a cold beer etc for reasonable costs - might make a nice communal christmas night stop over if you don't actually base yourself there.

The deep fried snapper wings from the restaurant are to die for!

Sage swimming beach -lots to see and do from a tourist perspective around Denham including a new multi million $ martime museaum thats fully air conditioned and would take 2 full days to explore properly also the Ocean park aquarium place was Ok too.

Shark Bay would be my pick for the Xmas stop over.

Tamala if you want to rough it(you have to book well ahead) or nanga if you want a few creature comforts in a wild location, and some good company and food / drinks for Xmas.

Even the foreshore in denham has nice grass areas and shade shelters/ BBQ's etc right on the beach..

Sheesh - I better stop its making me wanna go there again!

Cheers

My cousin wanted to come out from the UK at that time of the year but I put her off till April for all the reasons mentioned by other readers but the Christmas means nothing to me just another excuse to be ripped off but Christmas may mean something to you??????