hi fellow travellers-
For the past 6 months we have been on the road travelling, we left
Coffs Harbour NSW and travelled south to the
murray river, through the centre via Uluru to
Darwin, across the
Gibb River Road to
Broome and today we find ourselves at a great little
free camp near Karatha. We have stayed at many, many
places along the way in many towns. I just want to share with those who are interested or may be travelling to the north west coast of WA in the future, our experiences.
I will start from
Broome, we stayed at the Vacation village tourist
park @ $49 per night 2A and a 3 year old in an ensuite site. The sites the were great, and the ammenties were clean, however you did need to supply your own
toilet rolls after the first "complimentary" roll was used. I can recomend this place if you can afford it. We the travelled up to the
Dampier peninsula and stayed at an Aboriginal campground "Gambanan" @ $30 per night with spectacular
views over the
water. The locals came around and shared a yarn with us, showed us how to make spears and really showed us a great time. Its further north than
cape leveque and is highly recommended, the only downside is a cold shower. We then ventured to
Port smith caravan park, we were not made feel very welcome by the "regulars", we felt like the outsiders. The
park itself is great and the ammenties were fantastic.
THEN- we reach
Eighty mile beach caravan park, its stacked with regulars but such a friendly bunch. On the second day we were there the wind picked up and blew our annexe off our camper trailer and it was flapping about like crazy, we were down on
the beach at the time, but a few blokes saw it and rushed over to tie it down for us, many people would have laughed, but the blokes were fantastic and we couldnt thank them enough, even though didnt end up finding out everyone who had helped. I just hope they are member of exploroz and get to read this and accept our thanks.
We are now at Cleaveville Beach, $7 a night, no ammenties but great
views and friendly caretaker only 30 odd kilometres from karatha for
water and supplies.
To sum it up, we think this part of the country is awesome and offers so much to the traveller, it can be a little pricey but it can be done on a budget too if you find the right
places. I can highly recommend a vist up here to anyone as already so many travel here as the roads are packed with
grey nomads, familes and britz vans.
Happy travels