Robe River Rest Stop {Free Camp}

After leaving 80 Mile right up until the last minute we remained undecided on where we would spend the night before heading to Winning.  We had to go into Karratha to get some things I had dumped at the Hunters place, do a big spot again and post a few items.  So after getting to Karratha at a reasonable time we decided we would do all of this and then keep plodding along and find a rest stop.

We had some serious camper sorting do to and didn’t want to set up on the Hunters front lawn nor crash in the house {knowing they too had unpacking to do themselves}.

So we ended up on the Robe River for the night.

A nice area with plenty of space, although it did start raining right as I started cooking dinner.  Only a light drizzle but enough to be painful given the awning wasn’t pulled over.

J spoke to Rory from Kordarrie and we had planned to stop in there but it would all depend on how much rain they ended up with as to what the Twitchen Road would be like.  Rory said in the morning that we should be right, he hadn’t had that much and Yanery {his neighbor} had only had 8ml overnight.

So we headed that way.  The first few kms where wonderful, followed by a few puddles we could easily get around….. That didn’t last long till we had to ride the shoulder to get around some of the ‘puddles’ and then when we got about 2km from the driveway we wanted we had to go ‘bush’ only to discover that said driveway was under water.  After all that effort we turned around and headed back to the main road. 

Turns out that Yanery had infact had over 30ml of rain over night!

80 Mile Beach {Caravan Park}

One night turns to two which turns to three and had we not said we would be back in a month it might have turned into more.

A beautiful spot full of friendly regulars right on the beach.  They had burger nights, markets twice a week, a lovely women who makes shell goodies for the children and a massive stretch of beach full of shells, shells and more shells.

 

 

The smalls where in beach combing heaven.  J was in fishing heaven {even more so given he caught something} and I was just happy to wander, take pictures and relax.

Even though in WA we are blessed with a beautiful sunset every night I had never seen any like I had here.  The way the tide goes out and it really does look like you are walking on water at sunset was, well amazing.

Next stop Winning {well maybe after an over night spot}

Broome {Caravan Park} .

We made it to Broome!

Even better we managed to find a Caravan Park that wasn’t full!

Better again we didn’t get packed in {although I imagine that a month from now you certainly would be}! After setting up we headed down to the town beach to explore.  The smalls where so excited to see a playground, you would think they had never seen one in their life before.

What we planned to be a two night stay ended up being a four night stay when we discovered that the lovely family we had meet in Kalgoorlie where also in Broome.  We explored town beach, cable beach, the museum, the markets, played mini golf, walked around china town and generally just enjoyed relaxing.  Oh I almost forget, I also got to have ginger beer on tap at Matso’s.

It was lovely to spend sometime to ourselves, to spend some down time with the Hunter mob and also to catch up with Chris & Mika {oh and there three small people}.

After finally packing down and hitting the road, we really didn’t have a plan {so nice to be to that point again}, PERFECT!

Fitzrory Crossing {Caravan Park}

An over night spot in a place that can be totally covered in water & is all grass!

It was a lovely spot with great facilities to crash for the night before we all went out separate ways.  From looking at the pictures they had of the place it gets reasonably full in peak season which is scary given just how much space there is there.

We left here reasonably early and headed to Geekie Gorge to check it out, much to our bad luck we missed out on the National Park run cruise by about 10 minutes.  Still we managed to have a great walk around and view some of the wonderful formations.  Hard to believe that that whole area goes under water during summer rains sometimes.

Next stop Broome!