were to stay at coral bay Exmouth
Submitted: Friday, Aug 21, 2009 at 22:15
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Johnny B Good
HELP ME!!!!!
I am off to
Coral Bay /
Exmouth and have been looking at
places to stay and I have not been up that way before.
So now is the time all you
grey nomads from Down south to give all that good advise because I am sick of the weather down here and ready to hit the road.
I will be
camping so a caravan
park would do me just fine let us know were you think is the place to stay CHEEERS
Reply By: Member - Graham H (QLD) - Friday, Aug 21, 2009 at 22:57
Friday, Aug 21, 2009 at 22:57
We stayed at Nigaloo Caravan & Holiday Resort Its on the left opposite the
Visitors Centre.
Is a large
park and things are busy up there so a booking would be advised.
To me
Coral Bay was not good as we dont Swim or
snorkel and theres not much else to do The second
park was the nicer of the two but was busy as
well.
Denham is the pick of the west coast in that area by far.
Good scenery. lots of
places to go. We wangled a trip in a catamaran and a troopy for the day Was absolutely marvelous
Steep point if you like 200k of rough road Cape
Peron is a nice trip 50k of sand but worth it.
Camping allowed near the top
Hamelin is worth visiting and has a van
park.
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Follow Up By: Member - Graham H (QLD) - Friday, Aug 21, 2009 at 23:01
Friday, Aug 21, 2009 at 23:01
EDIT
The day trip was to
Steep Point to avoid the bad road.
Saw lots of whales from the cliffs as they were in really close.
Also a small bay full of baby sharks, like over 100.
Wished we could have stayed another week but forward bookings prevented this.
Cheers
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Reply By: AlanDel - Friday, Aug 21, 2009 at 22:58
Friday, Aug 21, 2009 at 22:58
Hi Johnny,
The caravan parks at
Coral Bay are Ok, but avoid school hols. Also, week before and week after school hols. Very Busy.
Port Smith, just south of
Exmouth is a good spot. Small caravan
park, great fishing, OK for a couple of days.
Regads, Al
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Reply By: AlanDel - Friday, Aug 21, 2009 at 23:00
Friday, Aug 21, 2009 at 23:00
Hi Johnny,
The caravan parks at
Coral Bay are Ok, but avoid school hols. Also, week before and week after school hols. Very Busy.
Port Smith, just south of
Exmouth is a good spot. Small caravan
park, great fishing, OK for a couple of days.
Regads, Al
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Follow Up By: Member - Graham H (QLD) - Friday, Aug 21, 2009 at 23:12
Friday, Aug 21, 2009 at 23:12
Is this a different
Port Smith to the one 140km south of
Broome where the
sandflies eat the large people on
the spot and carry the smaller ones away.
The only other
camp I remember seeing on that road was Giralia station
about half way between
Coral Bay and
Exmouth.
The name of the second van
park in
Coral Bay is Peoples
park. right next to the other one.
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Follow Up By: Member - Alan P (WA) - Saturday, Aug 22, 2009 at 08:06
Saturday, Aug 22, 2009 at 08:06
Yeh, sorry bout that. Got a bit confused with me towns. Al
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Reply By: Member - Graham H (QLD) - Friday, Aug 21, 2009 at 23:24
Friday, Aug 21, 2009 at 23:24
Quobba is another nice place and not so far as
Exmouth.
Had a marvelous day there watching whales and the helium balloon fishermen on the cliffs .
They caught some nice fish as
well.
Blowhole is spectacular as is the view from the lighthouse.
Camp at Quobba only 6 k of gravel in pretty good order.
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Reply By: Dunco (NSW) - Saturday, Aug 22, 2009 at 11:28
Saturday, Aug 22, 2009 at 11:28
I stayed at Yardie
Creek Homestead...about 30k out of
Exmouth....but it is therefor closer to
Ningaloo reef and the
Cape Range National Park. Plenty of fishing snorkelling and relaxing.
It was cheaper than town and very peaceful.
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