Campsites between Albany & Esperance WA

from Albany up to the Bremer Bay turn off there are heaps of "camping spots", all coastal, depends what you want, if fishing then just stop where ever, from the Bremer Bay turn off it goes inland to Jerry and turn right to go to Ravensthorp, then there are more coastal spots, Bremer by the way is 80 odd K's in .............
Also the Fitzy Nat Park has some good 4WD tracks, you can cut from Bremer to Hopetown (or used to be able to) and it is a really nice 4WD track.. well worth doing as HEAPS to see if you like land scapes, coastal ect
Also depends what time you have eh....
Soooooo LOVE that streach of coastline and miss it heaps, give me Salmon on the line anyday, better than Bara

hi black hilux
have a look at this site it will give you upto date imfo on all those those areas you mention
www.dec.wa.gov.au
cheers

Hi B-H

I think you will find you cannot get from Bremmer to Hopetoun via the coast. You can access some parts of the Fitzgerald NP but it is very limited for 4x4.

Try this website.

http://www.bushtrax.com/modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=44

Cheers

David

We've just travelled up the Balladonia track a few days ago, via Cape Arid National Park. We didn't see a vehicle the entire time :)

It took us about 5 hours total, towing a camper trailer. The initial sections are a bit sandy, we should have lowered the tyre pressure a bit, but neglected to do so and managed to drive out in low range.

The next hurdle we had was some boggy mud puddles, went through the first one without issues but almost didn't make it out of the next one - we had mud all up the sidesteps of the car, and the wheels were completely covered in thick sticky (and stinky) mud.

Up ahead was a larger body of water, similar to the previous one but probably worse, however upon closer inspection we had passed a little bypass track, so we reversed a bit and took the easy route :) There might have been a bypass track for the previous puddles too but we didn't notice one on the way through.

The remaining puddles that would have caused issues all had detours, so we took them instead and had no issues. However, there were some dry spots on the detours that would cause problems if there was recent rain. Some detours even had detours of their own :)

After the mud puddles it was mainly small rocky terrain, no big issues, but just means you'll be going slow. Our average speed was about 10-25km along the track. Once we hit the main track up to Balladonia, it improves a bit.

Although it was fairly dry, the track close to Balladonia was fairly cut-up, probably due to rain. I imagine it would get a bit muddy there with some water.

All in all, it's probably not something I would do again - my wife wishes we didn't do it in the first place! I guess we thought it would be a shortcut, but in fact it took us much longer than expected. There was not too much to see along the way.

I'm not sure about campsites between Albany and Esperance - we drove from Albany to Hyden and stayed in the caravan park there, and then drove to Esperance and stayed in a caravan park there.

There is another track you can do:
http://www.exploroz.com/TrekNotes/SouthCoast/Nuytsland_Nature_Reserve.aspx

I wanted to try that one, as I have spoken to a few people who knew someone that did it, but we couldn't spare the 3 or so days necessary for the trip.

Have fun!