Coral Bay Caravan Parks

If you cannot get a booking in a caravan park in Coral Bay ( I do not know my dates as this is on our homeward journey from Broome, where else can you camp.
I see there is the Cape Range National Park which shows camping sites on my map.We are new to camping in a tent, (this is our adventure) it may be a nightmare, but we are going to give it a go and enjoy the fun of it. I do not like the idea of camping where there are no other people.

Maggie

Maggie,

As others have said all that area is full up with caravans there for 3 or 4 months - and they will often have booked a year in advance. Cape Range NP can be full up as there are only about 90 sites that are strictly regulated. When we were there people were queuing at the park entrance from 2am in the morning. Also its quite windy and there is not much shelter from the wind.

However there are a couple of caravan parks at the northern end of Cape Range and from there you could do day trips into the NP. Still worth trying to book ahead a bit as they get busy too. Yardie Homestead Caravan Park is the one whose name I recall.

It seems that you are new to this type of travelling so good on you for having a go and I hope you have a wonderful trip. I sort of understand you feeling safer with other people around, but in practice our experience suggests that you would have nothing to worry about if you tried bush camping. For us and many others its the best way to camp and quite safe. That said, in that area around Exmouth and Coral Bay it is almost impossible to bush camp - for starters there is not much bush. Some of the big properties allow campers in for a fee eg Ningaloo, but even then the wind can make tenting unpleasant.

Cheers,

Val

yes it can be BUT

there are 2 camp grounds south of Yardie creek

I was there in sept 09 and all the campgrounds were full until i crossed over yardie creek and both camps were completly empty

- thank goodness not everywhere has been bitumanised